Using Style Guides to Achieve Content Collaboration and Consistency

About Liz Fraley Liz Fraley, CEO of Single-Sourcing Solutions, is well known for her advocacy of defining requirements. She has founded two companies, sits on the boards of three non-profits, and is constantly coming up with new ways to share knowledge in the technical communications and content industries. She has…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
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Secrets of a gumshoe librarian: Tips for transforming your career and staying relevant

Is your career ready for a makeover? Have you been forced into making a change? Client and employer needs evolve, and we should too. But no one wakes up and just decides to upend their career, because change can be hard and sometimes scary. In this session, Marcy Phelps shares…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
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What should be in a Year-End Review?

The end of the year is a time for us all to look ourselves over critically in the mirror and review our performance:“In December, I want to look back at the year and answer two questions:1. how did we do? and2. what do we want to do better next year?”~…

• Key Concepts: best practices, make your business case, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Liz Asks

Extend Your DITA Reuse with Keys

A crucial benefit of moving to a structured authoring environment is the ability to easily reuse content. Text entities, file entities and now with the DITA standard there is also keys and keyrefs. This DITA key method allows a user to create a placeholder for text, file paths or graphics….

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
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Arbortext 201: Configuring Arbortext for MIL-STD Doctypes

Learn the basics for getting Arbortext and Windchill configured for the MIL-STD-38784 doctype. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-997-6505-6-3

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, best practices, configuration and implementation, regulated industries, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Products, Resources

Building a Style Guide from the Ground Up

How do you establish a style guide, and how do you keep it going? In this session, I’ll talk about my experience implementing and maintaining a corporate style guide. What started as a casual department guide for 25 tech writers is now a formal style guide for all content creators…

• Key Concepts: best practices, usability and user experience, workflow and process
• Filed under: Webinars , TC Dojo

How to Identify DITA Topic Types (like a ninja)

When you’re new to DITA everything seems hard. Even choosing a topic type. New writers lean away from the specialized toward the generic. Teams get inconsistent structures for similar information across deliverables. In this session, Liz Fraley will show you one strategy for identifying topics—in legacy content and for new…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations , STC

Add Super Power to Your Communication with Super Structures

Super structures can increase performance and boost your productivity. They take advantage of economies of scale in your routine communication without causing you to succumb to numbing uniformity. Say what?! Super structures are logic flows that help you evaluate and create communications better and faster. Carry these structures with you…

• Key Concepts: best practices, productivity, soft-skills, workflow and process
• Filed under: Webinars , TC Dojo