Feature articles by DITAWriter or by other contributors.
As a teaser for the upcoming “Mark III” version of the Companies Using DITA page, which will not only be expanded from the current list but will also include the locations for the HQ of each company/organization shown, I thought I’d give a preliminary glimpse as to what the geographic distribution of DITA use isRead More
When the number of firms/organizations listed on the Companies Using DITA page hit 200 yesterday, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the industry segments to see if there are some significant trends as to which sectors are using DITA for their documentation processes. The results may surprise youRead More
Thanks to all of the responses I had on LinkedIn and by email from people who use DITA in their work, I have done a major revamp of the Companies Using DITA page on this site. Not only does it list additional firms and organizations that were sent to me, but I have done additionalRead More
In the previous article I looked briefly at the numbers from the latest Microsft’s Visio survey of technical writer tools, taking the raw data and showing where the DITA-OT appears in the list of the overall top 20 Technical Writer’s tools (#18, up from #20 in 2011) and where it appears in a listing ofRead More
Update January 27, 2012: Have changed the table info so that it is driven from a database — now you can sort and search the content of the tables, as well as seeing the full listing of tools in the survey. It wasn’t that long ago when I looked at the 2011 Survey that WritersUARead More
One new addition to the site today: a list of companies that are on record for using DITA to produce their documentation. Since I am currently looking for a position at a firm that uses DITA, this is partly for my own benefit, but am hoping it will help others who want to target firmsRead More
Update January 27, 2012: Have changed the table info so that it is driven from a database — now you can sort and search the content of the tables, as well as seeing the full listing of tools in the survey. The folks at self-selection bias are running their annual survey of the type ofRead More
Ran across this on LinkedIn: the DITAinfo.info site has been updated with a good assortment of sample DITA code. Run by Anna van Raaphorst Johnson and Dick Johnson, the site is a mix of structured DITA topics and unstructured, informal content being run off of a Drupal-based open source content management system. In terms ofRead More
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
The SDIG folk are back after a summer hiatus, starting off with an open discussion of information development issues that people are facing in their DITA implementation. Basically we are looking for some good discussion as well as some ideas that you would like us to tackle for future presentation. Bob Beims will kick offRead More
