Last month Anders Svensson proposed setting up a dedicated Q&A forum specific to DITA XML on StackExchange. He suggested this to members of the popular DITA-related forums on Yahoo and LinkedIn, and people responded enthusiastically to the idea. The staging area is called “Area 51” and is still in the developing stage, having finished gatheringRead More
Recently I ran across another blog post that extensively referenced one of my recent articles here looking at the sizes of the types of companies that are using DITA. I considered posting a response to it directly on their site, but I figure I can do a better job of it if I can includeRead More
In a previous article I looked at job descriptions for Technical Writers where “DITA” was mentioned and found that they comprised about 4% of all such jobs in the United States. That number is significant given that FrameMaker is mentioned in 10% of all such Technical Writer jobs listed on the Indeed.com site, given thatRead More
I’m sure that the phrase “DITA tease” is more commonly associated with the other famous DITA out there, but the people who make the DITAToo CMS have released what they promise is a final teaser ahead of an upcoming survey on how people convert legacy content to DITA. When asked what tools people are usingRead More
4% …and growing. About half-a-year ago Mekon colleague Rachel Johnson asked me whether I knew what percentage of technical writing jobs out there are DITA-related. I said I didn’t know, and became intrigued with finding the answer to that question. While I have a lengthy list of companies using DITA, I wondered what percentage thatRead More
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
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
For DITA XML, does “one size fit all”? The answer is: “yes”. When doing my recent revamp of the Companies using DITA listing, the information available on LinkedIn not only included the industry category that a company belonged to, but all the size of the company in terms of the number of people it employed.Read More
One of the more eye-opening aspects of the first “So Who’s Using DITA?” article I posted here a year ago was the variety of firms that had adopted DITA in some part of their documentation process. While those results were dominated by the number of software firms using it, what I found most interesting wasRead More
It is one thing to produce graphs of the countries where DITA is being used, another thing entirely to look at a map and realize that you happen to live in a city where there are lots of other people are producing DITA-based content. When I originally did my survey of DITA worldwide usage aRead More
