The Center for Information-Development Management and Dr. JoAnn Hackos announce a call for participation in the upcoming Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference. The 9th Annual Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Munich, Germany; 18-19 November, 2013. If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please complete the online for at: http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/2013/callforspeakers.htm before 1 August, 2013.
Archive - 2013
Michael Priestley
DITA metrics at the CMS/DITA 2013 conference
I attended several sessions on metrics, including the conference keynote, and a few key points jumped out at me:
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The wrong metrics can be worse than no metrics at all
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Metrics should be stable over time to allow for tracking
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Start by figuring out what decisions you need to make – then gather the metrics you need to make that decision
eNG1Ne
leaps and bounds … with the occasional stumble
Showed the results so far to one of the developers yesterday, output to multi-page xhtml, and came away with some useful questions. Selecting the <prolog> and then Help > Show content model – I'm so pleased with my choice of editor – pointed me in the direction of prodinfo and reminded me about critdates, and output to Web Help added navigation and docset search …
CALL FOR SPEAKERS--Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference
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