I first met Noz Urbina last year when I was presenting at the Congility Conference in London last year. He was the chief organizer for the event, and he brought in a number of interesting people I had long wanted to see in person, particular CMS “gurus” Ann Rockley and Rahel Bailie. The people heRead 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
Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) is presenting a set of three free webinars on DITA, aimed at organizations looking to move to it. If you are a manager investigating whether or not DITA XML is for your team, or a writer wanting to learn more about DITA, this is a good place to start. These sessionsRead More
I’ve known about this for a while now, but it has now been officially announced: I will be giving the keynote presentation at the upcoming Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference happening April 23-25, 2012 in La Jolla, California. My presentation is called “The Rainmaker, The Cloud and The Downspout: Keeping Your Content Relevant inRead 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
Hot on the heels of their recent announcement of a trio of free webinars on DITA 1.2, the folks at Comtech are also giving a free webinar presentation on January 26 called: “Implementing a Publishing Solution for the DITA 1.2 Learning and Training Specialization”. While this one is tied more strongly to a vendor (inRead 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
The folks at Comtech Services Inc. are doing a series of three free webinar sessions on DITA. These ones seem to be aimed primarily at those who are either just starting out in DITA, or are looking to compare notes and get a better understanding as to what industry best practices are when it comesRead More
