CIDM News and Events
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Conferences
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Upcoming Workshops
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Optimizing the DITA Authoring Experience—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Thursday
May 10-June 14, 2018
Advanced Reuse Strategies
July 10-11, 2018
Strasbourg, France
Creating an Effective Information Taxonomy
July 12-13, 2018
Strasbourg, France
Maturing Your Information Development Processes
July 17-18, 2018
San Jose, California
Creating an Effective Information Taxonomy
July 19-20, 2018
San Jose, California
Publishing for DITA—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Thursday
July 19-August 30, 2018
Developing a Web and Mobile Content Strategy—Online
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Wednesday
August 1-September 5, 2018
DITA Basics—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Tuesday
September 18-October 23, 2018
Optimizing the DITA Authoring Experience—Online Course
Two-hour sessions held weekly, every Thursday
September 20-October 25, 2018
More Workshops.
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CIDM Webinars
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More webinars coming soon!
Recorded webinars.
Other Webinars
Bye Bye, Binders: Training Content Goes Digital
May 15, 2018, 1pm ET
CGM & SVG – Data Exchange Workshop
June 12, 2018, 1pm ET
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Announcements
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| Our next managers’ round table will be Wednesday, June 13th at 12pm EST. To sign-up, contact Lovonya Thomas.
STC Summit 2018
Dawn Stevens will be presenting at LavaCon 2018!
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Call for Submissions: Special Issue on User-Generated Content and Its Effects on the Profession
XDocs CCMS 5.1 Release – Let the Structured Content Revolution Begin!
DCL News – April 2018
More Announcements.
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Taming the Knowledge Tsunami at CMS/DITA North America
Kathy Madison, Comtech Services
We may not of had a Tsunami here in Denver at our CMS/DITA North America conference in April, but the approximately 330 attendees did get to experience all four seasons of weather during their stay. As we went from spring back to winter on the first day, our keynote speaker, Dr. Marc Rosenberg, forecasted that we were facing a tsunami. In his talk, From Content Creation to Content Curation: managing the knowledge tsunami, he said that the sheer amount of content available is increasing exponentially while the shelf-life of knowledge is shrinking dramatically is causing the coming of a “knowledge tsunami”. His presentation allowed us to see how content curation may help us avoid the wave.
Read the article.
Remodeling Documentation
Anne Gentle, Docs|Code (used with permission)
A few years ago we went house-hunting in Austin, Texas. One house was so popular during the first showing, there were six back-to-back appointments. We waited in the driveway while another couple toured it. Once they left, we could quickly go through it while another prospective buyer waited on the front walkway.
Read the article.
2 applications of marketing AI
James Mathewson, IBM Digital
Originally published on https://biznology.com/2017/11/2-applications-marketing-ai/
The major hole in our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing is the lack of information on marketing artificial intelligence (AI). We talk about how to transform your marketing organization to take advantage of big data, but we don’t address the crying need of CMOs and marketing analysts to incorporate AI into their marketing tech stack.
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—Cepheid
 Cepheid is committed to providing high quality products and services that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. The focus on quality begins at the earliest stage of product design and carries through to the end user. Individual ownership is the basis of the Cepheid quality system. Cepheid complies with applicable regulatory requirements and continues to ensure the effectiveness of the quality management system.
Learn more about CIDM (Center for Information-Development Management).
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