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DITA and the Technical Communicator’s Transformation: Publishing On-Time and On-Quality

A new, complimentary report from Aberdeen Research:

A structured, or single-source, approach to technical communication can be contrasted with the traditional, unstructured or 'page orientated,' approach. In this approach, technical communications are created as whole pieces of content, often specific to a particular product line or configuration. By contrast, in a structured approach content is authored by topic in distinct sections that can be mixed and matched according to defined elements within 'chunks' of content. 

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IBM Unveils Software to Help Clients Manage Content, Process and Compliance

IBM today announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that are designed to help organizations achieve greater business agility and workplace effectiveness.

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IBM Unveils Software to Help Clients Manage Content, Process and Compliance

IBM today announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that are designed to help organizations achieve greater business agility and workplace effectiveness.

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Call for Speakers: CMS/DITA NA 2009 Conference

The CIDM and Dr. JoAnn Hackos ask you to consider bringing your best practices to the upcoming Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference.

We invite you to share your experience building a content management solution in your organization, collaborating with content producers throughout your organization (training, support, engineering, documentation), delivering content in new media, using wikis and blogs to communicate with internal and external customers, and managing change. Management and technical topics are both welcome in the program.

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Mylyn WikiText targets OASIS DITA

Wiki content has become increasingly popular within the DITA community, as evidenced by the recent announcement of the DITA2Wiki open source project. While most of these projects enable DITA-to-wiki conversions, community interest has been expressed for full-cycle wiki-DITA-wiki transformation capability. Mylyn WikiText hopes to close this loop with the addition of its support for DITA output. Mylyn WikiText can now create OASIS DITA as output from wiki markup.

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