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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service is made possible by SlideShare.net, a site that’s a lot like YouTube for slide shows.

Slide shows available today include:

  • Achieve Dynamic Publishing with DITA and CMS Adoption: Astoria On Demand
  • Adobe in Technical Communication and Instructional Design
  • Avoiding the Content Conveyor Belt Trap: Enabling Interdepartmental Collaboration
  • Avoiding the Software Marketing Trap: Understanding Lies and Near-Truths When Vendors Try To Sell You Content Management Software
  • Before and After Implementing a Content Management System: My Experience At GE Healthcare
  • Building An XML Publishing System With DITA
  • Case Study: Technical Writers Drive The User-Centered Software Design Process
  • Content in the Wild: Why DITA Matters
  • Content Quality Management: Using Software to Manage Quality and Track Metrics
  • Creating Documentation With A Wiki: The DITA Storm Project
  • DITA: Managing It All
  • Extreme Versioning: Delivering Customized Documentation Via XML
  • Games To Explain Human Factors (photo album)
  • Immersive Documentation: Training and Education in 3D Spaces
  • Implementing S1000D in the Real World
  • Improving Findability: The Role of Information Architecture in Effective Search
  • Introduction To Information Modeling With DITA
  • Introduction to Mobile User Experience Design
  • Localization 101: How to Avoid Being Left Behind in a Global Economy and Global Job Market
  • Making The Move To Information Architecture
  • Managing Information Assets in Virtual Worlds
  • Migrating from Unstructured to Structured FrameMaker
  • One Writer’s Perspective: How Structured XML Authoring Changes How You Work
  • Optimizing The User Experience Through Integrated Information Design
  • Painless XML Authoring? How DITA Simplifies XML
  • Practical Content Management: What Really Works
  • Rich Internet Applications: What Are They And How Might We Use Them?
  • SaaS Success Stories: Making CMS Solutions Affordable!
  • Strategies For Communicating The Value of Structured XML Authoring To Authors
  • The Effects of Globalization on Technical Communication and Training
  • The Inc. 500 and Social Media: Setting the Pace for US Businesses
  • The X Factor in Content Management
  • Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
  • Understanding Content Component Management
  • Understanding Information Architecture
  • Using S1000D and SCORM to Integrate Documentation and Training
  • What is Web Content Management, Anyway?
  • What’s User Experience and Why Should I Care? Introduction to Experience Design
  • Why Localization? Or… “You Mean Those People Don’t Speak English?”
  • Writing for Reuse
  • Writing Reusable Content to Support Information Models

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Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

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Call for Presenters: Web Content 2009 Tampa Bay (Deadline August 15, 2008)

Monday, July 28, 2008

The Call for Participation for Web Content 2009 Tampa Bay is open. We’re looking for great presentations from outstanding speakers on topics that address the needs of our audience and that align nicely with the theme of the conference—“The Impact of Social Media on Web Marketing Strategy”. Specifically, we’re looking for sessions that teach attendees something useful—something they can use when they return to the office.

To be considered, follow these submission guidelines and use our online submission form to submit your presentation abstract, professional biography and photograph before the August 15, 2008 deadline. If you’ve got questions not answered here, let me know. 

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NetworkWorld says “Industry watchers would be hard pressed to name specific IT skills as entirely dead or completely useless, but some skills are well on their way to being considered a thing of the past—as reflected by the declining pay associated with them.”

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Friday, December 07, 2007

In this exclusive interview with Charles Cooper (Vice President of The Rockley Group), Scott Abel (The Content Wrangler) discusses the difference between design and style, and asks Cooper to help us understand why so much of the content we create is not really useful to end users. 


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