Learning structured authoring and DITA on LearningDITA.com is more flexible than ever.
In this podcast, Sarah O’Keefe and Carlos Evia discuss their upcoming book: The Uninvited Author: AI, Intent, and the Future of Content.
Carlos Evia: One of the things that we really want to invite people who end up reading this book to do is engage critically with AI tools across the text cycle. It’s not magic. It’s a collection of ugly computers in water-chugging data centers that work primarily on predictability approaches. And I truly think that we need to be critical in our engagement with AI as authors and as readers of content.
Our team is headed to Charlotte, NC, October 25—28 for the LavaCon Content Strategy Conference. Will we see you there?
What are the limits of automation and AI in content systems? In this episode, Sarah O’Keefe and Bill Swallow dive into traditional formatting, workflow challenges, and what happens when AI is introduced.
The limit of automation here is not really the automation. It’s the people who say, “I don’t like the way this looks, and I’m gonna find a way to fix it. I know all sorts of ways of bending this stuff to my will.” If you’re generating content at scale, you can’t afford to do any of this stuff.
If your documentation team is patching together workarounds just to get content out the door, this webinar is for you.
We’re revamping our LearningDITA courses to make them even more useful.
If you want to learn about DITA but aren’t sure where to start, this training is for you. And we need your help to make sure we got it right!
Update on August 14, 2026: Because of an overwhelming response, we are closing the invite period. Thanks so much!
Are you in control of your digital destiny? In this episode, Alan Pringle and Sarah O’Keefe define digital sovereignty. They break down what organizations need to consider as they bring AI into content operations, from data leakage and competitive intelligence to shifting international regulations.
Sarah O’Keefe: The working definition that I’m using is that digital sovereignty is control over your own digital assets, digital destiny. That could be you personally, it could be you as an organization, or it could be you as a country or as a group of nations. And when I say group of nations, probably 98% of the time I’m talking about the EU, which has some laws in this regard. Digital sovereignty is your ability to control, own, and manage your digital assets and how they are used, reused, processed, resold, repurposed, and all the rest of it.
In a plot twist that will surprise no one, Sarah O’Keefe and Carlos Evia are writing a book. It’s about AI. Please contain your astonishment.
In June of 2023, Sarah O’Keefe authored this white paper on AI in the content lifecycle. Three years later, here’s what’s changed and what’s still true about AI in the content lifecycle.
What happens when you feed years of messy content into AI? In this episode, Bill Swallow and Alan Pringle dig into the content debt crisis, including increased system costs, neglected localization, and the fallout of “just use AI” mandates. They share practical insights to help organizations get back on track.
Alan Pringle: Is your content updated? Does it reflect the latest information? Is it created for all the different locales that your company serves? Is it in different languages? That is another pile of debt that when you start looking at AI, all the problems will be very brutally magnified, and you’re going to have to address them to really have a large language model that works at all.
