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Top 200 Content Strategists 2017
Discover the top 25 content strategist influencers of 2017. Candidates are selected based on internet presence, influence, communi…
DITA Content Strategy Relies on Structured Content: A Tale of Three Conferences
As usual, this year’s fall lineup of the world’s major conferences for technical content managers and creators—Best Practices, Tek…
Where DITA Is Now and Where It Is Headed: Lightweight DITA and DITA 2.0
The “D” in DITA stands for “Darwin,” underscoring the fact that the XML standard has evolution built into its design. That evolu…
SIGDOC: Educating Tomorrow’s Technical Communicators
While I receive many conference invitations, I was particularly intrigued when I received an invitation out-of-the-blue to present…
Beyond Traditional Roles: How Technical Communicators Can Add Value
Why do we need technical communicators? The skill sets and experience of technical communicator…
IXIASOFT Experts Contribute to Dr. Crabbe’s New Book
Published – July 17, 2017 Stephen Crabbe, a senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, UK, just…
DITA Production Metrics: Looking at Topic Ratios
What I think is still a largely under-appreciated aspect of DITA is that it enables documentation teams to measure ongoing content…
Don’t Wait for the DITA 2.0 Standard to Migrate to DITA
Some of my colleagues and I have run into a few people at recent conferences who have been asking how DITA 2.0 is coming together …
Content Games, Business Assets, and Automation at LavaCon Dublin 2017
The theme for this year’s conference was “Spanning Silos, Building Bridges,” which called speakers and presentations on the topics…
How to Streamline Techcomm Processes Regardless of Your Size
Published – June 7, 2017 Are you looking for a content management solution that allows you to produce and deliver content on…