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November 2009 Meeting

Information Mapping and DITA

Mike Austin will speak on his experience with Information Mapping and his experiences in driving use of IM as the structured content methodology at Freescale as they move into DITA-based, single-sourcing and content reuse.

Presenter

Mike Austin has worked as an information developer in the computer hardware, software, and semiconductor industries for 22 years. He first encountered Information Mapping at a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute technical writing seminar in the early 1990s and began applying the principles as much as possible within the traditional technical writing environments he encountered through the rest of that decade. It was not until 2003, working with Mark Nixon at StarCore, that he was allowed and actually encouraged to apply the Information Mapping method in a rigorous way. Now, at Freescale Semiconductor and again working with Mark Nixon, he is an information architect driving structured content development with the Information Mapping method as Freescale makes the transition from traditional unstructured content to a DITA-based production system.

Meeting Details

When

• Wednesday November 11, 2009, 7:00 - 9:00 pm Central 

Where

• Freescale's Parmer campus
• Classroom 110

Agenda

• 7:00-7:30 - Networking
• 7:30-8:30 - Presentation
• 8:30-9:00 - Question and answer session, discussion

Directions

• http://tinyurl.com/fsl-austin-parmer
• Enter building A and proceed to classroom 110 (ask the guard for directions if needed)

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