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Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference 2011 Valentine’s Day Special 
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Introducing Scott McCloud, Comic artist and Keynote Speaker for Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2011
JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.
Scott has been writing and drawing comics since 1984. He has also written several books about comics as a medium. His first book in 1993, Understanding Comics, explains how comics work as communication, with a blend of text and images to tell a story in time. He followed with Reinventing Comics in 2000, in which he advocates strongly for moving comics to the web. Making Comics in 2006 instructs in those key methods to create comics by developing actions, characters, and words that build a world for the reader.
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February 2011 Best Practices Newsletter
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The Illusive, Writing Productivity Metric: Making unit cost a competitive advantage
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Mike Eleder, Alcatel-Lucent
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How To Avoid Innovation and Quality
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JoAnn Hackos, CIDM
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Technical Communication and Usability: Intertwined strands and mutual influences commentary
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Janice (Ginny) Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc.
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Content Collaboration at Citrix: Strategic insights
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Mathew Varghese, Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Implementing the Big 3: A project management view on lessons learned on implementing an XML/DITA/CCMS publishing environment
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Chona Shumate, Cymer, Inc.
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Top Ten Project Management Tips
Vic Passion & Jennifer Riebli, TechProse
Every project is different, but there are several tried and true project-management practices that have a place in every toolbox. Every project manager (PM) is different too; there are PMs who manage the project and do the work, PMs with internal clients, and PMs with clients who are external to their companies. Regardless of the type of PM you are or the project you are leading, practice the following tips the next time you manage a project.
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Metrics Mania—Formatting
Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services, Inc.
In the early 80’s, as word processors put formatting control in the hands of the writer, the effort spent in making a document look nice exponentially skyrocketed. Horror stories of “ransom note” documents, which used every available font in every available size and color in a variety of margins and column widths, rose to mythical proportions. Although these reports might have been largely exaggerated, the truth remained that writers were enchanted with their control over look and feel, and consistency within information products went out the window.
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Survey of Users of the DITA 1.2 Specification
Dear Friends,
In 2010, the DITA 1.2 Specification was significantly rewritten to address the needs of the DITA technical audience, including the tools developers. If in the past you have used the DITA 1.0 and 1.1 Specifications as introductions to DITA, do you have the sense that you are able to use the DITA 1.2 Specification in the same way? This survey is designed to help the DITA Technical Committee and the DITA Adoption Technical Committee understand how well the DITA 1.2 Specification meets your needs and what you might expect from the DITA Specifications in the future. Here is the link to the survey:http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BFUN323SP/.
Thank you for taking time to give feedback to the DITA Technical Committee and the DITA Adoption Technical Committee.
JoAnn Hackos
Co-chair, DITA Adoption Technical Committee
Founding member, DITA Technical Committee
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