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| Upcoming Workshops | | Publishing for DITA—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Thursday
January 31-April 4, 2019 Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need
February 4-5, 2019
Wakefield, Massachusetts Advanced Reuse Strategies
February 6-8, 2019
Wakefield, Massachusetts Advanced Reuse Strategies
February 18-20, 2019
Athlone, Ireland Creating an Effective Information Taxonomy
February 21-22, 2019
Athlone, Ireland DITA Basics—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Tuesday
February 26-April 2, 2019 Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need
March 19-20, 2019
San Diego, California Creating an Effective Information Taxonomy
March 21-22, 2019
San Diego, California More Workshops.
| CIDM Webinars | | Get your Salesforce to integrate your technical content
February 6, 2019, 12pm ET The challenge of delivering a truly personalized search experience
March 6, 2019, 12pm ET Recorded webinars.
Other Webinars Translation project management for beginners
January 16, 2019, 5am ET
| Announcements | | Our next managers’ round table will be Wednesday, January 16th at 2pm ET. To sign-up, contact us.
DCL Newsletter – January 2019 easyDITA Newsletter – January 2019 LearningDITA Live 2019 Adobe Summit 2019 STC Summit 2019 More Announcements.
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Round Table Highlights: Taxonomy Development
Sabine Ocker, Comtech Services We are sharing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data on the internet daily. According to the IBM Marketing Cloud Study, 90% of the existing content on the internet has been created since 2016. We have heard this sheer magnitude of new information available to us each and every day referred to as the “content tsunami.” Emerging paradigms such as the Internet of Things and interactive content access such as chatbots will only continue to accelerate the volume and velocity of the giant wave of new information. Given this reality, the user’s challenge to find and filter information quickly and effectively increases exponentially, no matter the context of the information they are seeking. As taxonomies are an integral part of effective finding and filtering content, so their significance is only expected to grow as well. Read the article.
Use Case: Technical Documentation Team
SmartDocs for creating and maintaining customer-facing document sets Challenge Lisa Pietrangeli, 36Software Many of our customers have in-house technical writing teams that create, edit, and maintain product documentation. One particular customer was experiencing associated challenges with their creation and maintenance of customized, modular content. They needed a system that would help them produce customized manuals for their customers on-demand to accompany each unique sale. The organization’s technical writing team recognized the benefits of applying content reuse and conditional text to their content in an effort to streamline the process and get documents into their customers’ hands faster. Read the article.
Evolving from writers to UX writers Elizabeth Hui Reese, Microsoft Talk to anyone who started out as a tech writer at the beginning of this century, and they’ll regale you with stories of spending time in big docs, long publishing times, and an inability to change things quickly. I started out during this period, editing big binders of training materials for our customers who were studying to gain Microsoft certifications. These days, it’s rare for me to write an article that’s more than 100 words. The focus of the writers on my team is no longer on text-heavy documentation, but on how to craft the right in-product messaging that’s targeted, helpful, and delightful—all in phrases that are sometimes shorter than a 140-character tweet. Read the article.
| Our New Tool for Your Organization—An Information Modeling Aid  Use the DITA Information Modeling Deck to plan your DITA implementation and create your DITA information model. The DITA Deck describes the technical content subset of DITA elements, including the six primary topic types, map and bookmap, common block and inline elements, and metadata elements. Each card contains best practice guidelines to help you choose which elements you need, and the content models to help you further define the element structure most appropriate to your content. Use your sorted and annotated cards as a specification for any necessary constraints development, as well as a quick reference to your information model. https://comtech-serv.com/product/dita-deck/
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Welcome New CIDM Member—Amazon
Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis. The technology allows subscribers to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. Learn more about CIDM (Center for Information-Development Management). |
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