Workshop: Yes you can have it all! Technical accuracy and marketing pizzazz

Upcoming Dates We offer publicly available, virtual, instructor-led, classes focused on learning Arbortext Styler basics as well as advanced topics like cover design. See our Public Calendar for specific delivery dates. Learn how a modular approach to content creation, storage,…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC

Using Style Guides to Achieve Content Collaboration and Consistency

Style Guides: What Goes In Them and What Can They Cover? Style guides serve an important role, establishing guidelines to improve communication, ensure consistency, and enforce best practices in composition, presentation, and language, and representing the specific needs of the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC

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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC

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…

• Key Concepts: best practices, make your business case, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Liz Asks
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC

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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC

How to Identify DITA Topic Types (like a Pro)

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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, 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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Lavacon, STC