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Information Management
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Volume 7, Issue 2
February 2007
A monthly e-newsletter from The Center for Information-Development
Management (CIDM)
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD, CIDM Director
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com
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CIDM Calendar of Events |
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News & Events |
| Vasont Webinar Series
Packing Your Content Neatly into DITA
Presented by: Dr. JoAnn Hackos, President of Comtech Services and Mary Hush, Applications Engineer for Vasont Systems
February 7, 2007
10am PST | 1pm EST
More Information and Registration
JoAnn Hackos' New Book Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio and People is Released.
Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People, the new book from JoAnn Hackos, is now available on Amazon! Read the press release here
OASIS Symposium 2007
Dr. JoAnn Hackos to speak at the 2007 OASIS Symposium in San Diego, CA. Download the flyer or go to the OASIS website for more information.
OASIS Welcomes New Sponsor-Level Members
Comtech Services, Inc. becomes a Sponsor-level member of OASIS. Learn more about OASIS at their website. You can also visit the OASIS booth at the upcoming Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference.
innovation insights 2007
ii2007 is the industry's premier summit on Innovation, Knowledge and Content management. April 23-25, 2007 at the Wigwam Resort and Golf Club. Visit the web site for more details.
SDL's Global XML Survey
Participate in SDL's Global XML Survey and be entered to win a floating globe. The drawing will take place in April.
Comtech
Services Releases DITA User Guide
We are accepting orders for Introduction
to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture. Order
your copy today!
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Workshops |
Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
JoAnn Hackos
March 22–23, 2007
Princeton, NJ
For more information on these and other workshops,
visit the JoAnn
Hackos Workshop Series web site.
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Content Management Strategie/DITA North America 2007
Valentine's Day Special
Register by February 14th and
save $200 on your registration! Go to our registration page to sign up today.
Technology is Never Enough
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM Director
www.infomanagementcenter.com
“Let’s go buy something and do what it says.”
That’s exactly what we have heard from desperate publications managers who face a department of argumentative writers who cannot agree on the components of their new Information Model. We know, however, that buying tools is not the solution. Developing an information architecture that defines how you will consistently structure your content is independent of tools.
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Arbortext & DITA—Four Years Together
PG Bartlett, PTC
Do you remember how you first learned about DITA? Do you recall when the realization dawned that this was something really important?
That happened for me about four years ago when Dave Schell, an IBM executive who championed the development of DITA, mentioned to me, in a way that now seems almost off-hand, that I should go out to their developer site and take a look.
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Guru Talk: Exclusive Interview with JoAnn Hackos from MITWA News
Ramesh Aiyyanger, MITWA News
In an exclusive interview with Ramesh Aiyyanger for MITWA News, JoAnn Hackos, President of Comtech Services, shares her knowledge and expertise about Content Management and technical writing.
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the article
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