The next free Semiconductor DITA Implementers Group (SDIG) talk, “Create once, Approve Once, Re-Use many Times!” from presenter John Walker will happen Wednesday, February 23, 2011 starting at 10:00 am and running until 11:30 am (both times EST). Here’s the contact information for attending this virtual presentation: Location: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/freescale Toll-free: +1 (800) 867-1147 Participant code: 3230710Read More
Category: Webinars
DITA-related Webinars.
Next SDIG Talk on Reuse Challenges
Here’s information on the next Semiconductor DITA Implementor’s Group (SDIG) talk, scheduled to take place on February 23rd: Title: Create once, Approve once, Re-Use many times! Abstract: Once of the biggest challenges in the digital era is how to get consistent, current and correct information to the customer on-time and in multiple channels. For semiconductorRead More
DITA Constraints Presentation
For reasons relating to work and incidentally for a presentation I am working on for the Baltimore DITA conference in April, I am trying to learn the practicalities of implementing DITA constraints. (For a list of the reasons why constraints are good, see this nice summary on Tagsmiths). Am currently plowing through the pertinent sectionRead More
Semiconductor DITA Implementor’s Group (SDIG) Webinar this Wednesday
While aimed primarily at those working within the semiconductor industry, the Semiconductor DITA Implementor’s Group (SDIG) hosts good (and free!) Webinars aimed at writers and managers who are already using DITA in production. Better yet, we’re not trying to sell you anything — just trying to share experiences and talk about emerging best practices. I’llRead More
“DITA Reuse with LEGOs” Video
An amusing presentation explaining the idea of content reuse in DITA with Soren Weimann showing how it is done using big lego blocks (which represent individual topics), paper outlines of lego blocks (maps), a bowl (to represent a CMS), and a camera (to illustrate output). Sound confusing? Hardly, and it’s a shame that there aren’t moreRead More
CMS 2010: IBM Information Architecture Workbench Presentation
Day two of the Content Management Strategies Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. This morning I saw an interesting demo presentation by Kristen Eberlein (formerly of IBM, and now working as an independent consultant), who was showing off the capabilities of the most recent version of IBM Information Architecture Workbench. This is the program that usedRead More
“DITA Quick Start” from SlideShare.net
While it doesn’t get as much publicity as multimedia-based sites like YouTube, I often find interesting presentation on a variety of subject (like Information Architecture, Technical Writing, Localization, and of course DITA) from SlideShare.net. The following is a good summary of the basics of DITA by Selvakumar T.S. from Cadence. At 60 pages it beliesRead More
DITA 101 Presentation on YouTube
A nice four-part presentation (PowerPoint slide deck plus running commentary) on the basics of DITA by Sarah O’Keefe of Scriptorium. The whole thing runs about 40 minutes total and is good intro to the topic. One of the things I particularly like comes up in the second part where O’Keefe focuses on DITA’s niche inRead More