CIDM Information Management News May 2009: Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

CIDM Conferences

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

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

Upcoming Workshops

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

Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
June 11-12, 2009
San Jose, CA

Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
August 11-12, 2009
Madison, WI

Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
September 23-24, 2009
Cleveland, OH

DITA Boot Camp
September 28-October 2, 2009
San Mateo, CA

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

CIDM Webinar: A Case Study in Agile Adoption

Bill Gearhart of Comtech Services and Mike Wethington of BMC Software

This presentation provides a case study of one product and documentation team’s adoption of Agile. We’ll discuss how they focused on customer needs, established priorities, worked only on high-priority items, and got buy-in from the entire team for mutually-assured success. We’ll cover what worked well, what was problematic, and lessons learned over several releases. We’ll conclude with a question and answer session to show how you can harness this powerful methodology to produce better, more usable information for your customers.

Date: Thursday May 14, 2009, 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT (8:00am - 9:30am PDT)

Fee: $75.00

(This webinar is FREE for CIDM Members, please send an email to info@infomanagementcenter.com for registration details.)

To register for this webinar click here!

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

Presented by: JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Su-Laine Yeo of 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.