Information Management News
Volume 5, Issue 2
February 2005
A monthly e-newsletter from The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM)
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD, CIDM Director
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Content Management Strategies 2005
Read more about the conference and how you can register or become an exhibitor today.
CIDM is proud to be a partner with Arbortext in the 10th annual AUGI (Arbortext User Group) conference.
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Upcoming Workshops |
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The CIDM sponsors the following workshops:
XML for Writers
Jen Linton,
March 9–10
Roseville, MN
Structured Writing for Single Sourcing
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
March 16–17
Beaverton, OR
Managing Your Documentation Projects
Bill Hackos, PhD,
March 22–23
Mountain View, CA
For more information on these and other workshops,
visit the JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series web site
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Product Announcements |
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AuthorIT Presentations
Learn more about AuthorIT's newest release.
Innodata Isogen White Paper
Read about Innodata Isogen's latest white paper, The Five Steps to Rich Data Products.
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Collaborative Information Development
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM Director
www.infomanagementcenter.com
Collaboration is a hot topic these days in the enterprise content management and knowledge management worlds. Product developers are working on solutions that will make it easier for people to work together to develop content, share ideas, enhance knowledge, and generally contribute to innovative activities. They offer us managed intranet and extranet sites that support the exchange of ideas. They support threaded discussions, instant messaging, check in/check out with version control, and co-authoring of documents. They add in the ability to view each other's comments on documents in real time.
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More articles
Being Part of the Product—Palmer Pearson
Book Review: Exporting America by Lou Dobbs—Sue King
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Table of Contents—February 2005 |
Article |
Author |
From the Director |
JoAnn Hackos |
Designing on Steroids: Using Insanely Robust
Information Plans to Improve the Efficiency and
Productivity of Offshore Outsource Writing |
Mike Eleder |
More Content in Less Time: Applying the Lessons
of Lean Thinking to Technical Communication |
Mark Baker |
What Keeps Us Going? Key Motivators in the
Technical Communication Industry
| Beth Barrow |
Best Practice: Change Management and Writer/
Artist User Groups |
Pat Benson |
Communicating Effectively with Offshore Developers
| Liz Gabel |
The Heart of Change: Communicate for Buy-In
| Diane Davis |
Being Part of the Product
Palmer Pearson
Cadence Design Systems
Companies that survive tough times understand that innovative ideas are what secure their future. Many great corporate names have disappeared because they could not compete with those who consistently and substantially reinvested in themselves.
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Book Review: Exporting America by Lou Dobbs
Sue King
Independent Consultant
The only notable voice speaking loudly and publicly about the problem of exporting jobs out of America is Lou Dobbs, regularly on CNN and, more recently, with his book Exporting America.
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The Center for Information-Development Management
The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) is an
organization of information-development, training, and support
managers across the United States and internationally. The CIDM
is directed by Dr. JoAnn Hackos, international leader in the management
of the design, development, and dissemination of information to
customers and employees. Under her leadership, the CIDM conducts
benchmark studies among member organizations and elsewhere, sponsors
research into information development and its management, and
gathers and disseminates results and resources through newsletters,
the Web, seminars, two annual conferences, and research white papers.
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skilled managers in the information industry.
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