The Wisconsin STC Community announces a full day, hands-on workshop 
led by Leigh White. 

The DITA-in-a-Day workshop introduces the DITA topic model and 
provides a hands-on experience. Attendees are writers, editors, 
content managers--anyone who needs to create modular, reusable, 
structured documentation.

During this full-day workshop, you learn about the basic DITA model, 
including topic types, elements and metadata. Instructional segments 
are followed by an opportunity for you to put the principles you just 
learned to use, creating a set of DITA documents from scratch. Next, 
you learn about DITA maps and create some of your own, building 
different deliverables for different audiences. We also discuss 
specializing?a DITA methodology for creating new topic types for your 
specific needs. Finally, you see the DITA Open Toolkit in action. You 
learn what it consists of, how all the parts work together and see 
how you can use it to create multiple online and print (PDF) outputs. 
Over the course of the day, we also look at various tools, discuss 
how DITA can help you model your own content and explore some of the 
advantages and pitfalls of using DITA.

You'll come away from this workshop ready to create DITA-compliant 
content, and you'll be better able to consider the benefits that DITA 
could bring to your organization.