This is the first in a series of pieces devoted to “Thinking in DITA” aimed at providing technical writers just starting out with DITA the thought processes behind writing technical documents in DITA. Whereas most DITA tutorials focus on the mechanics of writing—such as DITA’s tag set—this series examines what goes into writing and thinkingRead More
I received word over the weekend that the folks at Alan Pringle were now shipping “Content Strategy 101”. It was written by Sarah O’Keefe and Alan Pringle. Subtitled “Transform Technical Content into a Business Asset”, the book’s brief blurb is: “Technical content is often the last in line for investment and innovation, but poor contentRead More
Another announcement about a free webinar on DITA/topic-based authoring that is coming out in early October. Here’s the blurb about it: “Using a topic-based approach can improve consistency and usability of information and make it easier to reuse topics in different contexts. It can also simplify maintenance, speed up the review process, and facilitate sharedRead More
Somehow I missed the first part of this three-part free webinar series, but JoAnn Hackos is presenting tomorrow (September 20th @ 1pm EDT) on Enterprise Communication. The Webinar series is being presented by the folks at Data Conversion Laboratory (the same people who hosted my own Webinar not so long ago) and JoAnn is aRead More
The following are some thoughts and observations I had while coming up with the initial version of this list, which has a permanent home here.The intent was to capture all CMSes that claim to be DITA-capable, and use that as a starting point to build a more robust list to aid those people seeking aRead More
One of the projects I have been working on for a while is a list of CMSes that claim in some way to be DITA-capable, done largely because no such list seems to exist elsewhere. One of the things I have discovered in the process of surveying various CMS marketing materials is that it isRead More
