The Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference in Santa Clara, CA April 2008 was a great success with a record crowd. Lots of knowledgeable DITA users presented their results and discussed their continuing challenges.

Please see the conference blog at http://www.cidmblog.com

JoAnn Hackos

Data Conversion Labs recently interviewed me. Here is the link.

http://www.dclab.com/dita_legacy.asp

And here is the interview...

Why DITA? An Interview with Bob Doyle

 

The Man Who Helped Invent Video Games, Desktop Publishing, and New Tools to Help you Learn Topic-Based Authoring

 

Original Merlin handheld game.
Photo courtesy Creative Commons

 

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Last week in Santa Clara, the Content Management Strategies conference was held. This year, CIDM added "DITA North America" to the name. The CMS/DITA NA conference brought together a wide variety of practitioners and managers in the structured technical information arena.

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I wrote the cover story for the special DITA issue of STC Intercom, April 2008. All the authoring tool vendors sent me licensed copies for testing.

Here is the tease for the story:

DITA's promise of topic-based structured authoring is not merely better documentation. lt is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets.

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Last month I promised JoAnn Hackos I would list the DITA presentations in Santa Clara in the April DITA Newsletter.

I forgot, so here they are in my blog...

Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy
Eric Severson
Flatirons Solutions

Successful Implementations of DITA and a CMS
Chip Gettinger & Fred Lass
Astoria Software

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