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Content Management Strategies/DITA
North America 2010
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Predicting Cost Savings—Backing Up Your Claims
JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.
Have you reduced your costs of information development by moving to Content Management?
CIDM members are interested to learn how a move to Content Management, topic-based authoring in DITA and XML, or other technology and process innovations has affected the efficiency of your operations. We would especially like to learn if you have achieved the Return on Investment that you promised in order to get project approval from your senior management.
Please respond to the survey questions as completely as possible. We estimate it will take you about 15 minutes to complete the survey. We hope you will include your contact information so that we can contact you to follow up.
I will prepare an article based on the results of the survey, which we will make available to all participants. We will not use your name or company affiliation unless we have your written permission to do so.
You will have until the end of April 24, 2010 to complete this survey.
Begin by clicking this link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AGD8TSYUH
Also, please look for my article on Predicting Cost Savings here.
Thank you for your help and interest.
Dr. JoAnn Hackos
Director
The Center for Information-Development Management
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April 2010 Best Practices Newsletter
Table of Contents |
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Building Super Team Spirit
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Todd V. Herrick, Symitar, a Jack Henry Company |
Predicting Cost Savings—
Backing Up Your Claims
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JoAnn Hackos, CIDM |
Writing For Reuse (or
Carefully Crafted Content)
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David A. Reid, MIF Masters |
Minimalism: A cereal killing
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Ron Fauset, Symitar, a Jack Henry Company |
What’s the Big Deal?—Just Cut and Paste?
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Michael Gross, Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. |
Collaborate in Context™ |
Alfred Papallo, Eurofield Information Solutions |
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An Investigation Into Standards and Innovation
Part 5 of 6: Knock knock: Open Source and Open Standards
Laurent Liscia, OASIS
In parallel (I have to stress the word "parallel", we'll see why in a second) thousands of independent software developers were inventing Web-based programs that could run in your browser, and could be used free of charge using exotic licenses such as GPL, and later, creative commons modes. Oftentimes these programs were built using languages (JAVA, PHP, Javascript) or platforms (Apache on Linux) that were also free of charge. Companies that charged good money for their software watched in horror as code that let you do hundreds of things over the Web was being given away. You've recognized the advent of the Open Source community—a group of hyper-intelligent and hyper-linked hippies who challenged everything we knew about patents and the rewards of innovation. They didn't WANT to be rewarded, at least not at first.
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the article.
The Sim-Ship Standard: Meeting the growing expectation of simultaneous shipment with XML
Su-Laine Yeo, JustSystems, Inc.
In the global economy, "sim-ship"—simultaneously shipping in multiple languages—is becoming the new normal. Companies are expected to deliver their messages to a global audience, in a wide variety of languages, at the same time. The audience may be customers, partners, employees, industry watchers, and others who, together, could speak 20 or more different languages. Regardless, simultaneous shipping is expected for even rapidly- and frequently-updated messages and content. XML is the most efficient way for companies to meet that expectation.
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the article.
Pulling DITA Out of Your HAT
Neil Perlin, Hyper/Word Services
In October 2008, MadCap Software announced that Flare 5, which would appear in 2009, would add support for DITA. Soon after, Adobe announced that the upcoming RoboHelp 8 would also support DITA. The DITA features in these two tools, two well-known HATs, or help authoring tools, so far pale next to those in "real" DITA authoring tools. However, in my opinion, these features represent a big strategic shift in the DITA space. That shift is the subject of this article/opinion piece.
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the article.
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Pre-conference Book Sale!
Introduction to DITA: A Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture—Arbortext Edition is now
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