Full-On DITA Strategies Beyond Technical Publications
DITA has the potential to add tremendous utility to high-value content for the enterprise. Before embarking on a DITA transformation project, organizations must first take a step back to examine their requirements for utility, maintainability, and usability of their content. This means not putting the technology cart before the horse. This session will take a […]
Content Strategy: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic offers the best definition of the term when she says, it “plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content.” Creating a content strategy does not mean simply figuring out how you plan to manage thousands of content-carrying topics or hundreds of chapter-bearing files. That is an element […]
When Words Just Don’t Cut It: Communicating Data Visually
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FREE STC Member-Only Webinar: Automating Tech Comm Authoring with FrameMaker 2015
FrameMaker has evolved over the years in the strangest of ways: as the product has become more feature-rich, it has simultaneously become easier to use. This session will focus on recent enhancements, but will also cover how long-standing features (like Conditional Text Control and HTML5 responsive output) have been improved. We are all under pressure […]
DESIGNING AN INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR SHAREPOINT
Many organizations use Microsoft SharePoint because it seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office; however, few organizations implement it correctly. Unaware that SharePoint is designed to capture metadata, which facilities creating lists and views, system owners create libraries that resemble shared drives with folders and several layers of nested folders. Consequently, searching for documents is a time-consuming […]