Is Zoomin being discontinued?
For a few months, I’ve been hearing rumors that Zoomin would be discontinued after its purchase by Salesforce.
Author: Sarah O'Keefe
Overview of structured learning content
Structured content separates content from formatting and enforces consistency, which makes it easier to deliver in multiple channels (elearning and classroom materials), scale up content delivery (delivering variants for different audiences), automate content, leverage AI for productivity, and localize the content for global markets.
Deliver content dynamically with a content delivery platform
Struggling to get the right content to the right people, exactly when and where they need it? In this podcast, Scriptorium CEO Sarah O’Keefe and Fluid Topics CEO Fabrice Lacroix explore dynamic content delivery—pushing content beyond static PDFs into flexible platforms that power search, personalization, and multi-channel distribution.
When we deliver the content, whether it’s through the APIs or the portal that you’ve built that is served by the platform, we render the content in a way that we can dynamically remove or hide parts of the content that would not apply to the context, the profile of the user. That’s the magic of a CDP. It’s delivering that content dynamically.
— Fabrice Lacroix
How Humans Drive ContentOps (webinar)
Discover how human dynamics shape content operations in the next episode of our Let’s Talk ContentOps webinar series! Host Sarah O’Keefe interviews Kristina Halvorson, the Founder and CEO of Brain Traffic, Button Events, and an experienced content strategist. From repairing cross-silo tensions to identifying intrinsic motivations, this webinar explores strategies for navigating the human side of content operations.
In this webinar, viewers learn how to:
- Address personalities, ambitions, and company culture
- Balance legacy knowledge as currency
- Foster effective collaboration
LearningDITA: DITA-based structured learning content in action
Are you considering a structured approach to creating your learning content? We built LearningDITA.com as an example of what DITA and structured learning content can do! In this episode, Sarah O’Keefe and Allison Beatty unpack the architecture of LearningDITA to provide a pattern for other learning content initiatives.
Because we used DITA XML for the content instead of the actual authoring in Moodle, we actually saved a lot of pain for ourselves. With Moodle, the name of the game is low-code/no-code. They want you to manually build out these courses, but we wanted to automate that for obvious reasons. SCORM allowed us to do that by having a transform that would take our DITA XML, put it in SCORM, and then we just upload the SCORM package to Moodle and don’t have to do all the painful things of, you know, “Let’s put a heading two here with this little piece of content.” And the key thing is that allowed us to reuse content.
— Allison Beatty
Discovering the Basics of DITA with LearningDITA (webinar)
In this webinar, Sarah O’Keefe shares the basics of DITA—what it is, why it’s crucial for creating structured content, and how it revolutionizes consistency and efficiency in documentation. By exploring core elements such as topics, maps, and metadata, along with DITA specializations like task, concept, and reference topics, you’ll learn why organizations around the globe use DITA to craft modular, reusable content and put it to work.
You’ll be introduced to a self-paced, online DITA training resource called LearningDITA. Lessons include exercises, links to additional resources and videos, and quizzes to test your knowledge.
What DITA offers is a mechanism for extensibility that doesn’t break the standard. If you’re going to try to build out a system that is futureproof, as best we can without knowing the future, then we need flexibility. We need the ability to change things as we go, to extend, to add new output types, to add new semantics, to add new metadata, to add new systems into the equation.
— Sarah O’Keefe
Transforming The Future: ContentOps In The Age Of AI (webinar)
In this episode of our Let’s Talk ContentOps webinar series, Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler himself, talks about the future of content operations in the age of artificial intelligence. You may know Scott from his work as a consultant, conference presenter, and talk show host, but in this session, we turn the spotlight back on Scott and ask him what HE thinks about the future of content ops.
Viewers will learn how AI is reshaping content operations, including:
- Creating seamless system connectivity
- Transforming content creation, management, and delivery
- Changing how platforms for professional content creators work
Calculate your DITA ROI
Will DITA bring enough value to your content operations to justify the investment costs? Calculate your DITA ROI to decide.
The PDF landscape for DITA content
I found this article in the 2010 (!!) archives and have updated it. Surprisingly, the general gist is still accurate.
There are numerous alternatives for producing PDF output from DITA content. The approach you choose will depend on your output requirements—do you need images floating in text, sidebars, and unique layouts on each page? How often do you republish content? How much content do you publish? Do you need to create variants for different audiences? Do you provide content in multiple languages?
DITA and learning content
One of our 2024 trends was an increased interest in structured content for learning—classroom training materials, e-learning, and more—and even DITA-based learning content.
With this in mind, we have some new initiatives for 2025.
