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CIDM Information Management News December 2009: Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

CIDM Conferences

 

CMS/DITA North America Conference 2010
April 19-21, 2010
Santa Clara, California

Best Practices Conference 2010
September 13-15, 2010
Hampton, Virginia

 

Upcoming Workshops

 

Structured Writing for Single Sourcing
December 15-16, 2009
Burlington, Massachusetts

 

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

 

Strategies for Delivering a Truly Global Support Experience Webinar

Presented by: Greg Oxton of Consortium for Service Innovation & Sophie Hurst of SDL

Is your organization struggling to deliver a truly multilingual support offering for your customers? Delivering accurate information in their language is critical to creating a positive customer experience, increasing self-service rates and cutting costs! This webinar will take place December 8, 2009, 11am Eastern.

To register for this webinar click here!


How DITA Can Change Your Life: The Impact of DITA on Roles in Technical Publication Organizations Webinar

Presented by: Amber Swope of DITA Strategies & Chip Gettinger of SDL XySoft

During this one-hour informational webinar we will discuss best practices for DITA adoption based on five different user roles, as well as insights into how a CCM can improve the overall user experience. This webinar will take place December 8, 2009, 1pm Eastern.

To register for this webinar click here!


Real-time Search and Alerting—Unlocking New Value Within Information-based Applications Webinar

Presented by: MarkLogic

You're invited to attend a complimentary one-hour webinar showcasing MarkLogic Server. Mark Logic provides the industry's leading XML Server, which is a powerful software development platform adopted by ISVs and information providers to enable a new class of XML-based solutions and applications that are either impossible or impractical to develop with the traditional unsynchronized "two-legged stool" of search + RDBMS technologies.

To register for this webinar click here!


Structured Publishing with an Open Source CMS

Presented by: Peter Dykstra of MetaphorX LLC

In this Webinar, Peter Dykstra reviews why to use a Content Management System for technical publishing, why to consider open source, and how to use the open source Daisy CMS to support a topic-based information architecture for HTML and PDF book publishing. This webinar will take place December 16, 2009, 11am Eastern.

To register for this webinar click here!


Improving Content Collaboration Using Content Management Webinar

Presented by: Charlotte Robidoux of Hewlett-Packard Company & Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems

As seen in CM Quick Tips newsletter, Vasont Systems Webinar Series Presents: Improving Content Collaboration Using Content Management. This webinar will be presented by Charlotte Robidoux, Hewlett Packard & Suzanne Mescan, Vasont Systems on January 6, 2010, 1pm Eastern.

To register for this webinar click here!


Planning Collaborative Work so that Teams Remain Efficient

Presented by: Charlotte Robidoux & Bobbi Gibson of Hewlett-Packard Company

Is the refrain, "Who has time to plan?" familiar in your organization? Do authors maintain that working on their own is the only surefire way to be efficient? Do they claim that working in XML takes more time? Struggling with writers over project planning and coordinating activities is not a new problem. Nor is it unusual to hear protests about authoring tools. Documentation managers are all too familiar with authors skipping the planning process, owning complete documents, and detecting flaws in the tools. But single sourcing complexities only invigorate these struggles. From information modeling and metadata to figuring out how to map, share, and optimize content, single sourcing fundamentals—both planning and collaborating—can add overhead to projects. Despite apparent inefficiencies, effective planning and collaborating can optimize reuse and impact ROI. This session provides various approaches to effective planning and collaborating to ensure reuse efficiency.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


XML Webinar Series: Transforming XML—Understanding the Mechanisms Used to Conditionally Process and Transform Your Documents

Presented by: Hal Trent & Frank Miller of Comtech Services

In the third installation of the XML series, you are shown the importance of XML tagging in creating audience specific documentation in a cost effective environment. We will discuss a series of use cases where XML tagging has played an important role in meeting timely deadlines by just having your information structured in XML.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


XML Webinar Series
Listen to both recorded webinars for only $125

Presented by: Hal Trent of Comtech Services

In the first of two webinars in this XML series, you get a high-level overview of the different pieces that comprise an XML document. You will be introduced to the building blocks of XML: elements, attributes, DTDs, and schemas. This webinar will prepare you for the second webinar in the series, Publishing XML (Understanding what happens when you produce a final document).

In the second of two webinars in this XML series, you are introduced to the transforms and stylesheets necessary to publish XML documents. You will gain the technical knowledge necessary to structure and style XML content for delivery to HTML and PDF. The Oxygen 10.2 editor will be used for demonstrations throughout the webinar. Each participant will receive the XSL-FO style sheet for PDF output and XHTML style sheet for web out used in the demonstration. The style sheets can be used by the participants in the Oxygen 10.2 DITA-OT or in the DITA OT downloaded from source forge.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


Getting Your DITA Project Started

Presented by: JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Bill Gamboa of Vasont Systems

Your content management system is nearly up and running. You've created project folders and instituted naming conventions for your DITA topics. You are ready to begin a Pilot Project but you don't know where to start. In this webinar, Dr. JoAnn Hackos, leading expert on topic-based authoring and DITA, leads you through two critical steps to a successful DITA project.

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 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.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


Your Terminology is Your Brand: Keep it Consistent and Under Control

Presented by: JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Sophie Hurst of SDL

You will learn how misusing terminology in your source content can have a dramatically negative impact on both your translations and your company’s brand. JoAnn and Sophie will also discuss the importance of terminology management throughout your organization in support of potential of automated translation.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


Vasont Webinar: Translation Roundup: Ways to Better Manage Your Global Content

Presented by: Nic McMahon of Lionbridge and Bill Gamboa of Vasont Systems

Vasont Systems and Lionbridge team up to provide ways to corral your content for more consistent content delivery and efficient translation management. Recorded July 20, 2009, 1pm Eastern.

To listen to this recorded webinar click here!


 

Other Events

 

Sign 09
December 3-11, 2009
Vienna, Italy

SDL Innovate 2010
February 9-10, 2010
Santa Clara, California

Intelligent Content 2010
February 25-26, 2010
Palm Springs, California

Software User Assistance 2010
March 21-24, 2010
Seattle, Washington

CMS/DITA North America Conference 2010
April 19-21, 2010
Santa Clara, California

Lisa Forum 2010
April 2010
San Francisco, California

Tech Comm Summit 2010
May 2-5, 2010
Santa Clara, California

Best Practices Conference 2010
September 13-15, 2010
Hampton, Virginia

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