First a link to the presentation on DITA and marketing content I co-presented at Intelligent Content:

http://www.slideshare.net/IntelligentContent/dita-for-marketing-content

And then a heads-up that I'll be giving a more detailed overview of lightweight DITA at a webinar on May 14th:

http://www.congility.com/webinar/xdita-and-hdita-marrying-lightweight-di...

And finally, I'll be presenting at the Congility conference in the UK June 18-20. You can get 30% off the registration by using this code:

MPR14SPK

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A lot of discussions and confusion in social media has recently, as it seems, dealt with two issues concerning the use of DITA (see for example a discussion in the DITA awareness group on linkedIn or another discussion on LinkedIn or a blog post by Tom Johnson). The first issue relates to the question if topics shall be nested or not, that is, shall DITA topics be kept as separate files or shall authors instead use a <dita> document and nest topics within it?

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There have been many discussions within OASIS DITA committees about discovering (and removing) the impediments to DITA adoption. It's probably fair to say that the discussions have discovered there are many roadblocks, but so far haven't resulted in clear ways to remove them.

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It's time for the next installment of the DITA OT in the Arbortext Monster Garage. 

In the first session on Arbortext and the DITA OT (last month), shop coach Mark Giffin from Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc., explained the basics of how Arbortext works with the DITA Open Toolkit.

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