DITA CM Strategies

List of DITA CM Strategies (CMS/DITA CIDM) events we have attended and at which we have presented. Includes slides and videos where available.

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The future is decided by your actions today

How do you know what the future holds? How do you know what to do to make sure you’re ready for it? Do you invest in skills? Do you buy a tool? Take a class? What? How do you prepare for the future when you don’t know what’s there? Some…

Key Concepts: best practices, entrepreneurship, soft-skills
Filed under: Presentations , DITA CM Strategies, STC

How Do I Pick the Right Tool for Me?

So many tools to choose from! So many messages from so many vendors. Everyone saying they are the right one! One size does not fit all and one solution is not right for everyone! How could it?! How do you find the right one for you? You need to be…

Key Concepts: best practices, entrepreneurship, soft-skills
Filed under: Presentations , DITA CM Strategies, STC

Conference notes from: DITA Best Practices BOF lunch at CMS DITA NA 2015

Tracy Baker and I had a full table and intense discussion on the topics on the minds of the people in attendance. Real time issues and ideas for possible solutions. Topics ranged from reuse strategies to getting started to review processes to getting it all done while still doing your day job. Before…

Key Concepts: best practices, dita, topic based writing
Filed under: Blog

Concepts and Techniques of Library Science

Have you ever bookmarked a site only to go back later and be unable to find that site in your bookmarks? Have you ever bookmarked a site twice? Only to wonder why you tagged it the way you did? Have you wondered how you will find the right content to…

Key Concepts: best practices, entrepreneurship, soft-skills
Filed under: Presentations , DITA CM Strategies, STC

Where Are They Now?

Summary: Stories of long-term Arbortext customers who are realizing the full potential of their solutions. There’s a software side to dynamic information delivery. We know this. Customers who have seen IBM talk have come to us and said “Sure, they can get there, but can I?” What if you’re not…

Key Concepts: best practices, entrepreneurship, soft-skills
Filed under: Presentations , DITA CM Strategies, STC

Repurposing Content for Multichannel Publishing

When Management decides to go to an XML publishing system, it’s not always clear to the authoring and editing staff why the decision was made. Ever wonder why they choose to go this route? In this presentation, we talk about some of the reasons why you might go away from…

Key Concepts: best practices, entrepreneurship, soft-skills
Filed under: Presentations , DITA CM Strategies, STC

You Don’t Have to Build Software to Do DITA

This is a success story. Medtronic ENT deployed a brand-new DITA solution, employing all the traditional strategies and best practices for DITA such as specializing only where absolutely necessary and adopting minimalist approach to topic-based authoring. As a global organization, they had a lot of resources to draw upon when…

Key Concepts: case study, dita, dita specialization, library science, make your business case, metadata madness
Filed under: Presentations , AMWA, DITA CM Strategies, Lavacon

Conference notes from: Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2010

For the last decade I have made a regular habit to speak at or at least attend the CMS conference. I think I only missed one year. It gives me an interesting perspective because I can see trends over time, changes in presentation themes, popularity of topics, and the changing…

Key Concepts: case study, make your business case, single-sourcing
Filed under: Blog

From FrameMaker to FrameMaker, Growing a DITA-Capable Department

Smaller organizations are starting to feel the need for DITA. For small organizations with limited staff resources and smaller budgets, it’s harder to plan and execute the move to DITA from traditional publishing applications and processes. As DITA’s adoption continues to spread to smaller organizations, people continue to ask very…