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AI Prompt Development with Reuse and Profiling - Alex Jitianu - Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor - November 2025 - Article
Alex discusses the challenges of managing prompts with the same rigor and efficiency we apply to structured content. Content Conversion Hacks - Adelheid Certik - Mizuho, OSI - November 2025 - Article
Adelheid shares some tips and tricks for a successful content conversion in a DITA implementation. Mission-Ready: Enhancing Technical Documentation with XR and IoT for Safety, Defense, and Industrial Support - Harald Stadlbauer and Christoph Schmidt-Mårtensson - NINEFEB - November 2025 - Webinar
Harald and Christoph explore how XR(Extended Reality) and IoT(Internet of Things) are transforming training for public safety, defense, and industrial sectors by combining immersive simulations with real-time data. CIDM Sponsor Profile – Graphwise - AI Summit - Graphwise - October 2025 - Article
Graphwise is pleased to announce the Graphwise AI Summit 2025, taking place on October 22–23, 2025. This virtual event will span two days of insightful talks, live demos, and hands-on showcases. Building a Content Design Practice for Technical Documentation - Michelle Bacigalupi - Guidewire - October 2025 - Article
Michelle traces the evolution of the Guidewire documentation site from a traditional tech doc site to an ecosystem for information experiences. Sometimes Words Have Two Meanings – Terminology as the Key for Readability and Translatability - Torsten Machert - Congree - September 2025 - Webinar
Torsten discusses what constitutes good terminology, how it is created and how it is used. Why Your Docs Deserve an Army of AI Agents - Michael Iantosca - Avalara - Fall 2025 - Article
Michael discusses how your documentation needs an agentic content workflow, a multi-agent AI system that doesn’t just generate documents, but manages the entire content lifecycle. Hitachi Vantara’s Content Experience Transformation: From Vision to Reality - Fabrice Lacroix and Jyoti Ramchandra - Fluid Topics - September 2025 - Webinar
Fabrice and Jyoti discuss how Hitachi Vantara’s approach to Content Experience is setting new standards across the industry. Facing the coming skills shortages - Harald Stadlbauer and Helmut Nagy - NINEFEB and Semantic Web - Fall 2025 - Article
Harald and Helmut demonstrate how using an iiRDS-based RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) can address some of the skilled labor shortage issues common in industries today and in the future. Love Your Agent of Change: Embracing Your Partner in Transformation - Amber Swope - DITA Strategies - Fall 2025 - Article
Amber discusses how agents of change can help organizations achieve transformations that would be impossible through incremental adjustments alone. Baby steps - Dawn Stevens - Comtech Services - Fall 2025 - Article
Dawn draws parallels between her new grandson’s skill development and organizations undergoing big changes, showing how growth requires small, deliberate steps—and how skipping them often leads to frustration and failure. Managing Technical Debt in Product Content - Dana Aubin - Comtech Services - September 2025 - Article
Dana reports on a recent members' roundtable conversation about managing technical debt in product content. Measuring What Matters: Content Reuse in Technical Communication - Dr. Amanda Patterson - Comtech Services - August 2025 - Article
Amanda reports on a recent CIDM Roundtable about measuring content reuse in technical documentation. Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Technical Documentation with Custom AI Assistants - Erin Servais - AI for Editors - August 2025 - Article
Erin explains how using custom AI assistants, such as ChatGPT’s Custom GPTs and Google Gemini’s Gems, can adapt your content automatically by adjusting complexity, format, or style while maintaining accuracy and consistency. Reuse workshop - Brianna Stevens-Russell - Comtech Services - March 2026 - Members Quarterly Workshop
Reuse Write It Right: Hands-On Strategies for Smarter Editing - Dana Aubin - Comtech Services - November 2025 - Members' Quarterly Workshop
Editing Collaboration Isn’t Another Meeting: Reframing Content Review for the Modern Team - Bhavya Aggarwal - zipBoard - August 2025 - Article
Bhavya explores the deeper collaboration challenges that hold content teams back - and how we can rethink our review workflows to work better, faster, and more inclusively Why Desktop Authoring is still favoured over Cloud Based Authoring - Andrew Douglas - Bluestream - July 2025 - Webinar
Andrew explores the functional, technical, and strategic reasons why desktop solutions continue to outperform cloud tools in many authoring scenarios. From Classification to Connection: A Practical Guide to Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Knowledge Graphs - Dawn Stevens - Comtech Services - August 2025 - Members' Quarterly Workshop
Dawn will demonstrate how taxonomies categorize content, how ontologies provide deeper semantic relationships, and how knowledge graphs enable dynamic linking and reasoning across diverse datasets. CIDM Benchmark Survey 2025: Content Delivery - Dr. Amanda Patterson - Comtech Services - July 2025 - Article
Amanda announces the CIDM Benchmark Survey 2025: Content Delivery. Strategic Integration: How Technical Communicators Are Using GenAI with Intent - Dana Aubin - Comtech Services - July 2025 - Article
Dana reports on a recent members' roundtable conversation about how members are fitting GenAI into their documentation workflows. AI, XML and Microsoft Word: Working Together - Pradeep Jain and Regina Rudoi - Ictect - July 2025 - Webinar
Pradeep, Regina, and Joe explore how structured content, artificial intelligence, and intuitive authoring tools are reshaping the way organizations create, manage, and deliver content. Measuring the results of AI-assisted content creation - Laura Katajisto - Etteplan - July 2025 - Article
Laura provides insights and options for thinking about how to measure the results of AI-assisted content creation. Future-Ready Content: Balancing AI Innovation with Human Expertise - Dr. Amanda Patterson - Comtech Services - June 2025 - Members' Quarterly Workshop
Amanda teaches this four-hour workshop that empowers content professionals to harness AI effectively while preserving quality, ethics, and user trust. Structured Content: How AI and CDPs are Changing the Rules of Content Strategy - Fabrice Lacroix and Frank Miller - Fluid Topics - June 2025 - Webinar
Fabrice and Frank share strategies to leverage your existing content with modern content delivery for early results across the company and navigate a more flexible, incremental adoption path of structured content. What’s in a name? - Dawn Stevens - Comtech Services - Summer 2025 - Article
Dawn contemplates the importance of her name for her new role as grandmother, and how similarly, our job titles in the technical communication industry can affect how we are viewed by our bosses, our peers, and ourselves. From Silos to Synergy: Practical Ways to Unite Content Teams and Delight Users - Kat Reierson - DocuSign - June 2025 - Article
Kat discusses initiatives that her content-experience team actually ran, iterated on, and measured over the past two years. Ready, Set, AI: How to Future‑Proof Your Content, Teams, and Tech Stack - Dipo Ajose-Coker, Sarah O'Keefe, and Marianne Calilhanna - RWS - June 2025 - Webinar
Dipo, Sarah, and Marianne dive into the essentials of getting AI-ready and show you how to get there without derailing daily operations. Model content for model training - Beth Hettich - Intuit - Summer 2025 - Article
Beth recounts the work Intuit has done to explore best practices for preparing content to be used as a model’s source. From Legacy Systems to DITA: Case Studies in Successful Migration - Sofia Darie and Karsten Schrempp - Pantopix - Summer 2025 - Article
Sofia and Karsten discuss real-world insights and lessons learned from successful migration projects, based on two case studies facilitated by PANTOPIX. THE DITA TALES – a bumpy ride implementing DITA in a small documentation team - Justyna Hietala - Beamex - Summer 2025 - Article
Justyna recounts her journey of taking on the challenge of implementing DITA in a medium-sized company as a one-person documentation team. Transforming Content Creation Through AI and Prompt Engineering - Jason Kaufman - Irrevo - June 2025 - Article
Jason discusses how for content professionals, the rise of generative AI is not a threat to resist. It is a signal to lead and to guide organizations toward responsible and effective use. From Static API Docs to Semantic APIs: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to API Discoverability and Automation - Mark Wentowski - Docs-Geek - June 2025 - Article
Mark explains how OpenAPI helps create a common language for different web services, making it easier for a server and a client to work together, even if they’re built using different programming languages or systems. ASD-STE 100 Simplified Technical English – Is it really simple? - Ursula Reuther - Congree - May 2025 - Webinar
Ursula explores how to effectively use STE for creating your corporate content. Building Intelligent AI Systems with Structured Semantic Data - Amit Siddhartha - Metapercept Technology Services LLP - May 2025 - Article
Amit explores a structured approach to content curation and data enrichment using standards like DITA-XML, RDF, and OWL ontologies to build semantically rich datasets that are optimized for training and dynamic retrieval. Graph Center of Excellence: Revolutionize Your Enterprise Data Management with Graph Technology - Brandon Richards and Sumit Pal - Graphwise - May 2025 - Webinar
Brandon and Sumit guide you through establishing a Graph Center of Excellence (CoE), emphasizing its critical role, practical applications, starting points, governance needs, and best practices for a triumphant implementation. ConVEx 2025 Convenes in Heart of Silicon Valley - Chuck Martin - May 2025 - Article
Chuck reports on the 2025 ConVEx conference in San Jose, California. AI and Accessibility Compliance: A Pragmatic Path for Organizations of All Sizes - Rob Andrews - AAAnow - May 2025 - Article
Rob discusses an automated accessibility solution to ADA compliance that blends human expertise with AI and automation. Linguistic intelligence and Generative AI – The best of both worlds - Michael Mannhardt - Congree - April 2025 - Webinar
Michael discusses how to maintain the quality of your content and achieve your content targets when using Generative AI (GenAI). Is GenAI too risky for Highly Regulated Industries? - Fabrice Lacroix - Fluid Topics - April 2025 - Webinar
Fabrice examines the risks of GenAI in Content Delivery and discusses what it takes to mitigate them and safely integrate GenAI into highly regulated sectors. |