Data Conversion Laboratory and Mekon are partnering to do a set of three free Webinars/interactive tutorial sessions relating to DITA 1.2. I’ve been impressed with the previous sessions these folks have done, and I plan on attending these myself. Here’s what they plan to talk about and when: DITA 1.2: Keys and Conkeys – Wednesday,Read More
Month: October 2011
“DITA Best Practices” is Now Out
Update: I’m being given a copy of the book to review, so look for a review here sometime in the near future. At the beginning of this week a new book on DITA came out: DITA Best Practices, by Laura Bellamy, Michelle Carey and Jenifer Schlotfeldt. It’s subtitle nicely captures what it is about: “ARead More
Congility Releases Free Webinars on DITA and Related Topics
While looking for information on when and where the next Twelve DITA Implementations: Lessons Learnedconference will be (still no updates on that front as yet), I found that they have posted a series of free-to-download webinars on DITA, content management and related topics. It’s a solid set of subjects from some leading people in theRead More
October 19th SDIG Webinar: Automating FrameMaker to DITA Migration
The next free Semiconductor DITA Implementer’s Group (SDIG) webinar happens tomorrow (Wednesday, October 19th) starting at 11am EDT. This month’s presentation is a case study of how Sterling Commerce used automation tools (from Stilo) to migrate their existing FrameMaker-based content to DITA XML. This presentation is aimed at those contemplating content conversion from FrameMaker toRead More
Customer Feedback in Technical Docs Using DITA
Update November 10th 2011: The poor audio in the original version of the YouTube version of the presentation has been fixed, and all references to it below have been updated to point to the new link. While at the Congility conference earlier this year, I attended a great presentation (one of many at that conference)Read More