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Palimpsest: Learn DITA and XML at your desk
Sarah O’Keefe at Palimpsest is offering several webinars on DITA and XML. I attended a webinar by Sarah before. It was clear, straightforward, and engaging. I definitely recommend her.
Content Theory: Sheep and Chaos — MK Anderson
Content Theory: Sheep and Chaos — MK Anderson. Keith Anderson writes about the need for technical communicators to focus on user needs and the user experience as their starting point. Does DITA fulfill this focus? Not in the eyes of the user. Users want better search and social networking.
Palimpsest: Flare 5 DITA feature review Part 1: Overview and map files
Palimpsest: Flare 5 DITA feature review Part 1: Overview and map files. I really enjoyed this thorough testing and analysis of Flare 5’s integration of DITA. It’s a huge new feature with forward-looking possibilities (namely webhelp output from DITA). Sarah O’Keefe does a nice job looking at all details, quirks, and other issues.
XML Personas on Teleread (bringing the e …
XML Personas on Teleread (bringing the ebooks home) describes different types of DTDs, including DocBook and DITA, and cracks me up.
The Content Wrangler
The Rise of Topic-Based Video in Task-Based Documentation: Is It Time for DITA and Video? The Content Wrangler.
DITA Topics Tutorial
DITA Topics Tutorial (a Captivate demo)
DITA to XHTML, PDF, or your favorite out …
DITA to XHTML, PDF, or your favorite output format: What are those messages scrolling by in the command window for
Helpful if I need to debug errors and am reading the log file.
Recession-proof Your TechComm Career For …
Recession-proof Your TechComm Career For 2009
If anyone has an ounce of sense and thinks they remotely might have to swat around theories, buzzwords, or best practices across the desk from a hiring manager within the next eighteen months, you really need to hit up these free webinars.
THE CONTENT POOL: Move over DITA – Chaos is coming!
THE CONTENT POOL: Move over DITA – Chaos is coming!
The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization
The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization
Green’s Opinion: Mylyn WikiText targets OASIS DITA
Green’s Opinion: Mylyn WikiText targets OASIS DITA.
Possible full cycle wiki-DITA-wiki transformation. Wonder what he thinks of Michael Priestly’s color photo-greyscale photocopy-color photo analogy.
Communications from DMN » Talking shop with Anne Gentle
Communications from DMN » Talking shop with Anne Gentle
DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN
DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN.
Mad Hatter :: Conferences Help Authoring Tools :: DocTrain East Conference currently taking place
Mad Hatter :: Conferences Help Authoring Tools :: DocTrain East Conference currently taking place.
DITA Tools from A to Z
DITA Tools from A to Z
MadCap DITA
MadCap DITA — Some more details
DITA Meets Wiki – Output DITA to Wikitext | just write click
DITA Meets Wiki – Output DITA to Wikitext | just write click.
techcommdood’s brain dump: Madcap DITA?
techcommdood’s brain dump: Madcap DITA?
Darwin Information Typing Architecture DITA reading list | just write click
Darwin Information Typing Architecture DITA reading list | just write click.
Best Practices for Editing Modular Docum …
Best Practices for Editing Modular Documentation
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