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CIDM Conferences
Best Practices Conference 2010
September 13-15, 2010
Hampton, Virginia
DITA Europe Conference 2010
November 15-16, 2010
Vienna, Austria
Upcoming Workshops
Developing Quality Documentation in an Agile Environment
August 19-20, 2010
Hillsboro, Oregon
Developing quality documentation in an Agile environment requires a firm understanding of how Agile works and how to use the system to ensure that you are creating "just enough" documentation that meets customer needs.
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Upcoming Webinars
DITA vs. Non-Technical Authors: Why and how?
Presented by: Presented by Laurens van den Oever, Xopus BV
Date: August 11, 2010, 11am Eastern
This session will show approaches to have non-technical authors directly write DITA content including improving discovery of available tags, preventing abuse of tags for styling, and promotion of inline tagging.
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Minimalism: Using fewer words to improve quality and save costs
Presented by: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc. & Jennifer Beaupre, acrolinx
Date: August 18, 2010, 1pm Eastern
Learn from Dr. Hackos how you can reduce text and focus it more directly on customer needs. Jennifer Beaupre of acrolinx will show you how reuse can be introduced into the information development process to further decrease development time and cost for organizations.
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Never Waste a Good Crisis
Presented by: Daphne Walmer, Medtronic
Date: August 25, 2010, 11:30am Eastern
Layoffs. Unplanned employee turnover. Hiring freezes. Missed deadlines. Looming workloads. Impossible schedules. As painful as crises are, it’s often easier to make needed changes in response to crises than at other times. Learn how one manager got approval to add personnel in the middle of a reduction in force.
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Ugly DITA Webinar Reuse
Presented by: Sheila D'Annunzio, STMicroelectronics & Marc Speyer, Independent
Date: September 30, 2010, 11am Eastern
Sheila and Marc provide valuable insight in how to avoid and overcome problems resulting from the DITA content model, stumbling blocks in content reuse, unexpected print quality issues, adoption resistance, and implementation difficulties.
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Recorded Webinars
The DITA 1.2 Keyref Mechanism: How to Implement the Keyref Mechanism to Increase Content Reuse
Presented by: Hal Trent, Comtech Services, Inc.
In this webinar, Hal Trent of Comtech Services introduces the new DITA 1.2 keyref mechanism and provides possible implementation strategies. The keyref mechanism, along with the conkeyref mechanism, will allow users to easily interchange variable content, build context/content-specific hyperlinks, and solve many of the issues that conref could not solve.
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WinANT—Simplifying and Automating DITA Publishing
Presented by: Tony Self, HyperWrite Pty. Ltd.
In this session, WinANT's developer demonstrates this open source tool, and describes the ways it can be "fine-tuned" to streamline DITA publishing.
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3D Without the Glasses: Adding Dynamic 3D Images to your Technical Publications
Presented by: Robert Merlo, Right Hemisphere & JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.
In this webinar, Robert & JoAnn explored the benefits you can achieve and the costs you can save by working directly with engineering design content. You learn how you can easily create dynamically generated graphics, 2D illustrations, and additional views. The more and better graphics that result help you reduce word-count and the cost of writing, updating, and translation.
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Collaborating with Your Customers Using Your Product Documentation
Presented by: Alfred Papallo & Robert Minard, Eurofield Information Solutions
DITA and other CMS management and authoring tools are valuable for the preparation, management and reuse of reference content, but what about the end user? In this FREE webinar, learn how eComPress Publisher can efficiently process and automatically index your reference publications into powerful secure, compressed, encrypted and annotatable productivity tools, that will enable your end users in the field to quickly and securely find what they need, and use this information to seamlessly collaborate with others online, with full access to that knowledge base offline.
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XML Webinar Series—Session 4
Publishing XML to PDF and the Web Using the Same Style Sheet
Presented by: Hal Trent & Frank Miller, Comtech Services
In this webinar Hal and Frank will review the CSS 3 specification, and demonstrate how documentation groups can design a CSS 3 style sheet to accommodate both print and web requirements using publishing engines like Antenna House. In addition, Hal and Frank will review upcoming technologies that will improve consistent PDF and web output.
To listen to this recorded webinar click here!
Content for Tomorrow: Social Media and the Dilemma for Content Teams
Presented by: Alex Blanton of Microsoft Corporation
Social networking, social media, and other Web 2.0 technologies have changed the way that companies communicate to and exchange information with their customers. What experiments and big bets are content teams making to embrace these changes? Are we falling behind, leaping ahead, or just trying to keep stride with the complex possibilities we offer? This session provides ideas, guidance, and insights into how Microsoft and other web properties, user assistance, and information and publishing efforts are being designed to connect with customers in this new world.
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How Effective Use of Metadata and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Can Be an Answer to Your DITA Nightmares
Presented by: Frank Shipley of Componize Software
In this webinar, you will see how the effective use of metadata along with existing standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) can be an answer to the challenges of moving to DITA. With metadata and RDF, those nasty nightmares will go away, indeed they may well be the answer to all of your DITA dreams!
To listen to this recorded 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.
To listen to this recorded 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.
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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.
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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.
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Other Events
CoCreate Virtual Conference 2010
Until October 28, 2010
Best Practices Conference 2010
September 13-15, 2010
Hampton, Virginia
2010 1st International XLIFF Symposium
September 22, 2010
Limerick, Ireland
TRADULEX Conference
October 1-2, 2010
Lisbon, Portugal
Performance Conference 2010
October 12-14, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology
October 18-20, 2010
Wisla, Poland
tcworld Conference 2010
November 3-5, 2010
Wiesbaden, Germany
DITA Europe Conference 2010
November 15-16, 2010
Vienna, Austria
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