Late last year I did a presentation for the Boston DITA Users Group on the Future of DITA. December 2019 doesn’t seem that long ago, but so much has changed since the coming of Covid-19. Luckily I can continue to work from home, and I hope that many of my readers are able to doRead More
Category: Webinars
DITA-related Webinars.
DITA and Responsive Web Design: Why DITA and RWD Were Made for Each Other
Update June 13, 2014: You can now watch a webinar where Phil Kneer and I talk at greater length about the subjects covered in this article, courtesy of Data Conversion Laboratory. The DITA + RWD examples shown at the end of the presentation are available from the Yellow Pencil website, and the original slidedeck versionRead More
List of DITA-related Videos (Updated)
One of the great things about YouTube (other than numerous videos of cats) is that if you are looking to learn more about a subject—like DITA XML—there’s plenty of material available for you. George Bina at SyncRO Soft recently sent me a link to several DITA and oXygen-related videos posted online, and I realized thatRead More
Webinar: DITA for Everyone – It’s Not Just for Tech Pubs!
The folks at easyDITA, who this past summer hosted the DITA Rockstar series of webinars are hosting a new free webinar to accompany a white paper called: DITA for Everyone – It’s Not Just for Tech Pubs!. While DITA has gained significant traction within the realm of Technical Publications, in many organizations it has notRead More
Upcoming DITA Webinars
Time to catch up on some DITA-related news items, all having to do with upcoming DITA-related webinars: Content Management Trends: Understanding DITA Date: August 14th at 1PM-2PM EDT Speakers: Dan Taylor, Paul Wlodarczyk and Kris Eberlein More companies are utilizing DITA standards to represent reusable content components. A component content model enables companies to efficientlyRead More
DITA Rockstar Summer Camp Webinar Series
Summer is here and what better time to learn more about DITA XML? 😉 Okay, maybe that’s not for everyone, but this series of webinars hosted by easyDITA look to be an interesting way to while away a lunchtime. Unfortunately I came into this information a bit late (busy with work!), but there are aRead More
List of DITA-related Videos
The following is a (hopefully) comprehensive list of all DITA XML-related videos being hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. As you can see there’s plenty of videos on all sorts of DITA-related topics out there, ranging from how to use DITA in various editors (including FrameMaker, oXygen and XMetaL), tutorials on DITA, a few DITA-based CMSesRead More
Webinar: Bad DITA Conversions-How to Avoid Breaking the Bank
The folks at Stilo are sponsoring another free webinar that looks at how to prepare your content prior to any conversion work being done on it. It builds upon the previous webinar in their “Stilo DITA Knowledge Series” they ran last month, and like that one will also be hosted by Jacquie Samuels. I amRead More
Webinar: Cognitive Design for User Assistance Series
Update February 7 2013: A recording of all of the webinars in this series are now available: Session 1: Users Become Learners Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 2: Empowering User/Learners Through Cognitive Development Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 3: Integrated Learning: Building Customer Loyalty Webinar recording Slidedeck only If you get an error message whenRead More
Webinar: Key Elements of a Successful DITA Conversion Project
At the end of this month Jacquie Samuels of Writing Wise will be giving a free webinar presentation (sponsored by Stilo) that is aimed at those people who are looking at converting their content over to DITA. Am guessing you can get a sneak-peak at what she will be talking about at this nice articleRead More