Past Webinars

  • Recorded on October 9, 2024
    The way you deliver content impacts every aspect of your business, from how users discover and engage with your information to the speed of your product launch and the quality of your customer support. The success of both your content and product hinges on how effectively you manage this process. In today’s AI-driven world, Content Delivery Platforms (CDPs) are a game-changer. By unifying and centralizing all your knowledge, they serve as an essential backbone for Generative AI applications while empowering companies to deliver relevant, personalized and contextual content experiences to users on any device and at any touchpoint. Join our masterclass to uncover the key concepts, benefits, and practical uses of a CDP, illustrated with real-world examples from diverse industries and businesses. Discover how to choose the right solution to meet your current delivery needs and future-proof your business for long-term success.   Presented by Fabrice Lacroix
    Fabrice Lacroix is a serial entrepreneur and a technology pioneer. He has been working for 25 years on the development of innovative solutions around search technology, content enrichment and AI. He is the founder of Fluid Topics, the leading Content Delivery Platform that reinvents how users search, read and interact with technical documentation.
         
  • Recorded on August 28, 2024
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    Join us for a fireside chat featuring industry leader, Laura Bellamy and Acrolinx VP of Strategy, Paul Bongers. During this webinar, Paul and Laura will discuss a data-driven content approach to ensure great customer experiences, including:
    • How a data-driven approach supports content quality initiatives in the enterprise.
    • How AI is changing the way organizations look at content quality.
    • The impact of AI in the content supply chain.
    Join us to learn how to put your data into action, automate processes, and ensure that your content meets the needs of your customers while propelling business success.
      Presented by: Paul Bongers, Acrolinx and Laura Bellamy
    Paul Bongers, VP Strategy
    Paul shapes the Acrolinx product strategy. He's worn many hats in SaaS businesses, but at heart he's a strategist and a technologist. Paul brings a wealth of experience and creativity to Acrolinx. His work with partner ecosystem development, SaaS strategy development along with a deep passion for user-centric technology set the tone of innovation at Acrolinx.
      Laura Bellamy, Director of Content Insights and Quality [email protected] Laura has 20+ years of experience in the content and customer experience industry where she brings a forward-thinking mindset to help teams adapt and grow. She has been recognized for award-winning user-centered experiences and innovations. Formerly at AWS, she led the Content Insights & Quality to establish evidence-based standards for content quality and performance. Prior to Amazon, she led Content Strategy and Information Experience for VMware and served as an information architect for IBM. She is a co-author of the book DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA.
                                 
  • Recorded on: November 14, 2024
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    Are you struggling to articulate the value of structured content to your management? Discover how the challenge of AI readiness can become your greatest opportunity.

    In this webinar, we'll explore how the tightening AI regulations can transform structured content into the Swiss army knife of your organization. By adopting structured content, you're not just preparing for AI – you're solving multiple challenges with a single strategy.

    Learn how structured content can help you:

    • Achieve AI readiness
    • Improve accessibility
    • Comply with upcoming legislation
    • Deliver personalized user experiences
    • Scale content operations across products, languages, and markets while containing your budget

    For content professionals and decision-makers alike, this webinar provides a compelling case for structured content as the cornerstone of AI readiness and beyond. You'll gain valuable insights on how to communicate this multifaceted value proposition to your management, turning potential regulatory hurdles into a catalyst for organizational improvement.

    Join us to discover why structured content isn't just about AI readiness – it's the key to solving numerous content challenges while future-proofing your organization.

     
    Presented by: Toni Ressaire, Technically Write IT (TWi); Rahel Bailie, Technically Write IT (TWi); and Fraser Doig, RWS

    Toni Byrd Ressaire, MSc Technical Communications, is the Director of Innovation at Technically Write IT. She helps to drive strategy and innovative solutions for TWi clients. TWi is an Ireland-based consultancy of content specialists who provide content strategy, content operations, language, learning, user adoption, and content production services. TWi works with companies wanting to solve their content problems for business impact.

    Rahel Anne Bailie, FSTC, FISTC, is the Content Solutions Director at Technically Write IT. She brings a wealth of experience to helping companies get more value from their content assets. TWi is an Ireland-based consultancy of content specialists who provide content strategy, content operations, language, learning, user adoption, and content production services. TWi works with companies wanting to solve their content problems for business impact. Fraser Doig is a Senior Associate Product Marketing Manager specializing in helping companies of all industries understand how structured content can elevate their business. At RWS, Fraser works in the Language and Content Technology division, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest developments in the market. He is a regular contributor to publications such as KMWorld and Customer Service Manager Magazine.            
  • Recorded on October 16, 2024
    HTML is used not only as a final delivery format but increasingly as the source format for documentation of all kinds, whether that’s internal product designs or customer-focused technical documentation. Understanding change in those documents is a vital part of your content management workflow. Join us as we explore the ins and outs of HTML redline documents, looking at how to identify change in HTML, how to visualise it, and how it fits into your toolkit. From text to tables, MathML to SVG, come and discover how to decide what matters in your redline output. Presented by: Tristan Mitchell, DeltaXML Tristan is Product Director at DeltaXML, a technology company with world-leading software products for managing change in structured content. He has a deep understanding of DeltaXML’s product suite and loves to help customers create extra value in their content using change management. Tristan is a father to three daughters, a movie lover, and a keen runner.    
  • Recorded on January 22, 2025
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    Subject Matter Experts (SME) play an ever-increasing role in your authoring processes. But they are not XML experts. Discover how you can enable them to create content that is consistent in terms of structure, language and terminology by modernizing and enhancing your (Component) Content Management with:
    • Browser-based authoring designed for users with no XML expertise
    • Integrated linguistic intelligence to facilitate terminology design and usage, and GenAI for efficiency, consistency, and content reuse
    • Collaborative features for seamless editing and review, taking the pain out of longwinded and error prone review cycles

    Presented by: 

    Torsten Machert, Congree Torsten studied Russian and Spanish. After he graduated at the Humboldt University, Berlin, he spent more that 20 years in the CMS business and became an industry expert in SGML and XML based management and publication processes. As Senior Consultant with Congree he can perfectly combine his linguistic and XML background.
    Headshot of smiling man with short hair and glasses André Schlotz, RWS  André Schlotz is VP Global Automotive and Manufacturing Solutions, RWS Group. He helps organizations to digitalize their content supply chain through structured content authoring, component content management and single source content delivery. Before joining RWS in 2013 he was holding various management positions in manufacturing companies in product development, aftersales, process organization and IT. He has more than 20 years of experiences in process consulting, planning, building and running digital industry solutions.                  
  • Recorded on February 26, 2025
    Join us for an insightful webinar showcasing how content can be seamlessly generated from existing data sources rather than manually crafted, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.
    This session will explore real-world examples from AMD and Fluid Topics, illustrating how automated processes turn technical data into professional, readable documentation at scale.
    We'll demonstrate:
    - Automated Register Documentation: See how CPU specifications transform into organized, structured documentation, stored in a database, then delivered as HTML straight to the documentation portal.
    - Hands-Free API Doc Conversion: Discover how API information is converted to DITA and integrated into CCMS to enrich comprehensive technical guides and manuals.
    - Instant Release Notes Generation: Learn how JIRA-based data automatically generates release notes in sync with new versions, ensuring timely updates without human intervention.
      Presented by Fabrice Lacroix and Doug Brook
    Fabrice Lacroix is a serial entrepreneur and a technology pioneer. He has been working for 25 years on the development of innovative solutions around search technology, content enrichment and AI. He is the founder of Fluid Topics, the leading Content Delivery Platform that reinvents how users search, read and interact with technical documentation.
      Headshot photo of man with short brown hair with mustache and short beardDoug Brook is the Director of Technical Documentation and Localization for adaptive computing at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Throughout 20+ years in senior management of technical content organizations, he has led evolutions of information resources to improve user experience for numerous high-tech companies, large and small. A past Society for Technical Communication (STC) panelist, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. He has successfully navigated technical documentation teams through several corporate acquisitions and has introduced new authoring systems and content delivery platforms multiple times. As an experienced technical writer, educator, and theatre artist, he leverages a broad perspective of how to effectively serve diverse audience types and how to optimize processes for people to more effectively serve them.   
  • Recorded on February 20, 2025
    Organizations often struggle with deploying unified portals for their technical support documentation due to a variety of challenges. These challenges can stem from a lack of resources, insufficient understanding of user needs, and difficulties in creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation. This webinar will explore the reasons behind the hesitance to implement unified portals and suggest successful approaches to overcome these obstacles.
    Presented by Andrew Douglas
    Andrew Douglas, Business Development Manager @BlueStream 25 years in SaaS based Consultative Software Sales.  Consultative/Solution Selling approach to position value driven Enterprise class CCMS and Publishing platform. [email protected] 
       
  • October 21, 2020 Thinking of automating your entire conversion process to DITA? Wanting to handle conversion work manually, in-house? Before you proceed, think about how the conversion could help you derive the benefits of DITA that you expect. A simplistic approach may allow you to publish something that looks just like what you have now. But a really good quality conversion will help you to leverage content reuse, personalization and multi-channel publishing, as well as making it easier to maintain and update your content. For example, will your conversion generate keys and keyrefs for variables? How about a relationship table, to prevent broken links? Will menu cascades be correctly marked up, for localization purposes? Presented by: Helen joined Stilo as a technical editor. She now works closely with Stilo Migrate customers, helping them to analyze their legacy content and configure appropriate mapping rules. She also provides Migrate customer training and support. Helen has helped Migrate customers to convert tens of thousands of pages of content to DITA and custom XML. Helen holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and has pursued graduate studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
  • April 14, 2021 Unsurprisingly, when it comes to the money your company spends producing technical documentation, your management knows the cost down to the penny. And when it comes to investing in THE content delivery solution that will streamline your work process, unleash your content, and transform your user experience, one question will arise without a doubt: “How much?” Meaning: “How much will it cost?" This can be a completely different conversation if you can turn it into “how much it will save” and “how much additional revenue it will bring to the company." In this webinar, we will give you a clear picture of the cost savings and gains a content delivery platform such as Fluid Topics can generate across three areas: customer and partner service, employee productivity, and client satisfaction. We will also give you access to a tool that will help you navigate scenarios and determine how long it will take to achieve a return on your investment by customizing the calculator’s numbers to fit your situation. Presented by: Geraldine Boulez is passionate about new technologies and their ability to solve people and business problems. This is what has led her to product management, marketing and business development positions in fast-growing tech companies and innovative corporations for over twenty years. Geraldine is VP of Marketing at Fluid Topics, the leading Content Delivery Platform that reinvents how users search, read and interact with technical documentation.
  • May 19, 2021 Omnichannel experience is setting the bar for customer expectation and it’s putting new and increasingly complex demands on your business to deliver the right information where your customers need it. Writing for the web is not writing for omnichannel. Preparing your content for emerging technologies requires new approaches to content creation and delivery. It requires a microcontent strategy. Robust content management technology is certainly part of the solution, and your organization will be tempted to invest in new tools for chatbots and voice. However, before you go ahead and fill yet another content silo with zettabytes of information, instead make enhancements to the content creation programs you already have. Microcontent is the next evolution in structured authoring and will open new channels for your content while improving delivery across existing channels. In this session, we will focus on the missing link in a successful microcontent strategy: an intent-based writing methodology. We will highlight some key concepts that will help you to start looking at your content through an omnichannel lens. Presented by: Mike Rowlinson is the VP of Training & Content Services at Precision Content. Mike has been working in the technical communications industry since 2005. His core belief is that great content enables great companies. Mike’s division develops and delivers engaging and effective training and transformation engagements including the recent completion of the firm's eLearning product, the 15 modules self-paced, Precision Content® Writer Training. The training enables writers to create effective content so that staff and customers alike can find what they need and understand what's required quickly and efficiently.
  • June 2, 2021 Various surveys are showing that the majority of the world’s leading companies have accelerated their digital transformation efforts during the pandemic – efforts that are not slowing down. This presentation will discuss the key role content plays in the field of digitalization, and what you should do to future proof your content while elevating your customer experience. Presented by: Berry Braster has been in the technical documentation field for over 18 years and has helped implement content strategies, including the use of DITA and HyperSTE controlled language software. As Technology Director, Berry is involved with connecting technical documentation to IoT, and how to leverage on technologies like Augmented and Virtual Reality.
  • May 26, 2021 What if the search function on your tech doc was providing personalized results and was as good as Google, reading the mind of your users and anticipating their needs? What about a search engine that learns and gets more accurate, more relevant and personal every day. What does it take to get there? It’s mostly about technology, but not only. It also requires information: about your content (metadata) and about your users (profiles). In this Webinar, we will introduce the challenges, review the possible solutions, and discuss what you need to have and do in order to support this shift to a modern user experience. Presented by: Fabrice Lacroix is a serial entrepreneur and a technology pioneer. He has been working for 25 years on the development of innovative solutions around search technology, content enrichment and AI. He is the founder of Fluid Topics, the leading Content Delivery Platform that reinvents how users search, read and interact with technical documentation.
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