CIDM Information Management News April 2009: Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

CIDM Conferences

CMS/DITA North America Conference 2009
April 27-29, 2009
St. Petersburg, Florida

Best Practices Conference 2009
September 14-16, 2009
Vancouver, Washington

DITA Europe Conference 2009
November 16-17, 2009
Munich, Germany

Upcoming Workshops

Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
April 15-16, 2009
Burlington, MA

DITA Boot Camp
May 11-15, 2009
Wakefield, MA

User and Task Analysis for Information Design
May 19-20, 2009
Lexington, MA

For more information on these and other workshops, visit the JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series web site.

Host a Workshop

Organizations that host a workshop in the JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series receive four registrations for the price of one. Find out how to become a host.

Webinars

Bring Your Style Guide to Life and Create High-Quality Content from within Adobe FrameMaker 9

Presented by: Sophie Hurst, SDL, Terry Lawlor, SDL, & RJ Jacquez, Adobe

Attend this webinar to find out about an exciting new offering from Adobe and SDL—for the first time ever, SDL AuthorAssistant™ is being provided free for all FrameMaker 9 users!

To register for this webinar click here.

SDL Trisoft Webinar: DITA As Global Strategy: How and Why DITA Is Becoming A Strategic Competitive Advantage

Presented by: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Howard Schwartz, SDL Trisoft, and Chip Gettinger, SDL Trisoft

This webinar discusses how and why DITA is providing this kind of strategic advantage to global companies. Discussion focuses on how DITA can be leveraged to improve a company’s global market presence. Three experts on DITA, publishing and global content discuss their experiences working with large multinationals that have adopted DITA as a key dimension of their global market strategies.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here.

Strategic Content is Good for Business: How DITA and SharePoint Work Together for Information Sharing

Presented by: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services and Su-Laine Yeo, JustSystems

The goal of better-managed content is now much easier to achieve ... even on constrained budgets. DITA (the Darwin Information Typing Architecture standard) is rapidly being adopted as a proven foundation for content. And Microsoft SharePoint has made basic content management features accessible to hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide. Whether you're in HR, legal, marketing or other departments, this webinar will teach you to leverage DITA and SharePoint for cost-effective information sharing.