Update: My thanks to Wim Hooghwinkel of Information Energy who sent me a list of a several firms in The Nederlands that are using DITA, which single-handedly pushed the numbers of firms for that country up a full percentage point. Also to my Mekon colleague Noz Urbina who pointed out a problem with the numbersRead More
“Companies Using DITA” Now Lists More than 360 Firms/Organizations
What originally started out as a modest project just over a year ago to find out which companies are using DITA for their technical documentation has evolved over the past year to become the most comprehensive listing of all-known firms that are implementing DITA. If you are using DITA XML, know you are far fromRead More
New WritersUA Tools Survey and Some DITAWriter Updates to Expect in 2013
The people at WritersUA are again running their annual survey asking Technical Writers what tools they use, and the relative importance of those tools to their work. If you are a technical writer I urge you to take part in the latest survey. It only takes a few minutes, consisting of a single page whereRead More
More Interesting Preliminary Results from DITAToo’s Legacy-Content-to-DITA Survey
The folks at DITAToo have released another teaser on the results they are getting for a survey they are running that asks how people are converting legacy content to DITA. This shows the answers to two questions: what is the percentage of organizations that are re-writing or re-structuring their content in order to make itRead More
DITA and the Return of the Editor
I have not had a lot of spare time of late as I have been working on several projects (which is always a good thing!) so I have not had the chance to write anything new for the site for a couple of weeks. So here is a piece I wrote earlier in the yearRead More
Interview with Peter Fournier of Samalander Software
When I was compiling a list of DITA-supporting software tools recently, I ran across one firm based out of Ottawa in Canada called Samalander (not a typo) that didn’t just make one DITA-related tool, but at last count has made no less than ten of them, ranging from DITA metrics tools to link checkers andRead More
Information Architecture Presentation at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, France
Earlier today I delivered a presentation called “The Evolution of Information Architecture” at the Colloquium on Information Architecture being hosted by the École normale supérieure in Lyon, France. The presentation ran for just under an hour, followed by a half hour of good questions, primarily from the students who are taking the Master’s program inRead More
“DITAWriter” to Present at an Information Architecture Colloquium in Lyon, France
If you happen to be in Lyon, France next week, you can hear me give a talk called The Evolution of Information Architecture on the morning of Tuesday, November 20, 2012. It is part of a series of presentations in both French and English being held by the French Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon andRead More
Webinar: Epson to Talk About 3 Year’s of ROI Data Using DocZone
When it rains it pours: yesterday I mentioned the free Webinar JoAnn Hackos will be giving where she will mention the results of the latest CIDM survey. Then I got an email from RSI Content Solutions, who make the DocZone DITA CMS which said that they were also planning on doing a Webinar presentation scheduledRead More
Upcoming Webinar by JoAnn Hackos on Adopting DITA to Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity
Update: Just got word that the date for this has been changed from Thursday November 8th to Monday November 19, 2012. Same time though. In the meantime the 2012 CIDM survey is still being run, and you access it here. Whenever JoAnn Hackos speaks, I listen. So I’ll be one of those planning on attendingRead More