Gilbane Conference Dec.1-3, last chance at discount!
I know this is last minute, but today is the last day of this extended deadline for a discount. I hope to see you at the Conference! Early Discount Extended For One Week! Sign up by November 6, 2009 and use discount code GILBANE to save an additional $200! Especially because of the difficult economic … Continue reading
Gilbane Boston Conference Dec 1-3: Early registration ends October 30th
The Gilbane Conference in Boston: Content, Collaboration and Customers isa must for any manager responsible for content management for their company. The most affordable prciing option (free) is calledTechnology Showcase. You can hear the Keynotes and check out all the CMS vendors in the Exhibit area. I went last year and it was well worth … Continue reading
Clear Point Coffee: DITA inside and outside a CMS
We had an excellent program last Thursday with Stan Doherty from Verivue presenting on Content Management Systems: Using DITA outside a CMS and inside a CMS. Stan was most generous to share his slides (attached). Stan covered basic strategies in the DITA process and a quick overview from start to finish! Also, presenting was Judy … Continue reading
DITA + Wiki = The Open-Source DITA2Wiki Project
In my reading about how companies are using wiki’s , I came across this interesting article on the Writers UA web site. In 2007, Lombardi donated this framework to the community as the open-source “DITA2Wiki Project” on SourceForge.net. If you would like to read the enitre story here it is: http://www.writersua.com/articles/DITA2Wiki/index.html If you have any … Continue reading
Doc Manager Coffee: Cutting costs AND enhancing the customer experience
Jack Thompson gave a terrific presentation this morning at our Coffee about how he managed to cut costs, improve productivity without adding headcount and achieve enhanced customer satisfaction at Avaya. It seemed impossible when first considered but Jack broke the whole thing down into very discreet managable steps. I’m going to roughly summarize: Customer feedback. … Continue reading
SharePoint Webinars in June
The Content Wrangler Community is a useful group for Information design and delivery professionals. Scott Abel is the creator/moderator and he pulls together quite a few good articles and trainings around the issues of Content Management. I learned about these Webinares thanks to being on his email list. http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/ I’ve found many IT groups use … Continue reading
JoAnn Hackos visits the Boston area
JoAnn Hackos is a very distinguished national leader in the fleld of information design and content managment. She will be in Waltham May 19-20 to give a workshop on “User and Task Analysis for Information Design”. http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/user_task.shtml In addition Clear Point Consultants, Inc., BMC Software and The Innovation Council are sponsoring an informal conversation with … Continue reading