Speakers
Matt Sullivan
Founder, Tech Comm ToolsBernard Aschwanden
President, Publishing SmarterStart
September 21, 2017 - 2:00 PM
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September 21, 2017 - 3:00 PM
Transform Your Docs into Usable Content with Template-Driven Design
Not all your content is usable. You know it, and your users know it. If your management is watching, they probably know it too. But there’s never enough time to go back and weed out bad content from the good. At least, there’s not enough time if you keep with the techniques that got you in trouble in the first place!
Join Matt Sullivan and Bernard Aschwanden as they discuss template-driven design in any application to shave a third off the time it takes to create and maintain content. Matt has been showing this to his clients and students for years, and he’ll share real-world examples and concepts that you can take back to your own organization and your own content, regardless of the tools you use for content creation.
You’ll learn:
- How Matt’s 95% Perfect rule (Matt’s version of the Pareto Principle) applies to content and formatting.
- Why solid template-driven design is essential for both structured and unstructured documents.
- How to triage your current documents, producing quick wins that create the time you need to implement template-driven design.
- How semi-structured and structured content can eliminate almost all time spent formatting (and reformatting) your content.
- Oh, and Bernard will be there as well 😉
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