Events
- Engineers, product managers, marketing, and other SMEs can use simple rich-text editing tools to contribute content in native DITA format
- Information developers can co-author content with simple track changes
- Information development managers can view progress and track projects in real time
- Subject matter experts can review, comment, propose changes, and approve content on-line with no special training or software – and authors can accept or reject those changes directly in a DITA editor
- Translators can access source content as soon as it’s ready to translate, have one instance of translation memory to manage, and can access the same tools as publishers for proofing
15 February, 2012
Webcast: HTML5 and its impact on technical communication
We are excited to host guest presenter Peter Lubbers, Senior Director of Technical Communication at Kaazing. In this session, Peter will give a fast-paced overview of HTML5 with a focus on how it affects the tech comm field. He will cover what exactly HTML5 is, why you should care, and how you can develop with HTML5. The session will also cover which browsers support which features, and how you can make the new features work in older browsers so you can start using HTML5 today.
Peter lives and breathes HTML5. He is the co-author of Pro HTML5 Programming and the co-founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group, the largest HTML5 User Group in the world. He frequently speaks at web events and teaches cutting-edge HTML5 training courses all over the world. Peter oversees all aspects of documentation and training at Kaazing, a start-up company specialized in building a high-performance HTML5 WebSocket platform, and the first company to offer HTML5 training worldwide.
This session includes a special offer—50% off the e-book version of Pro HTML5 Programming with a coupon code to be announced during the webcast!
The event is free, but registration is required.
22 February, 2012
Intelligent Content
Sarah O’Keefe will attend and give her presentation Down the Rabbit Hole: Getting Started with the DITA Open Toolkit. In this hands-on session, attendees will learn the basics of the DITA Open Toolkit. After installing the toolkit and verifying that the installation works to produce default (ugly) output, attendees will have an opportunity to modify HTML output to produce something more attractive. Techniques will include modifying CSS, modifying XSLT, and understanding the Open Toolkit’s overall architecture.
Scriptorium is a silver sponsor and will have a booth in the trade show. Drop by and visit us!
More information about the Intelligent Content conference
22 February, 2012
tcworld India
Scriptorium visits India for the first time! Please join Simon Bate for sessions on content strategy, managing XML transitions, and a post-conference workshop on XML and structured authoring. We hope to see you there.
For details, see the conference web site.
28 February, 2012
Vendor webcast: Bring your DITA content to the next level with IXIASOFT
How do you effectively manage your DITA content as it continues to grow? Moving to DITA alone can yield several benefits, but what if you had a component content management system in place to help streamline some of your everyday processes that as a writer can be manual and tedious? Join Jean-François Ameye to learn more about how IXIASOFT’s full featured DITA CMS solution handles your entire technical documentation process from authoring and searching to reviewing and publishing.
This webcast is part of our vendor demo series. The event is free, but registration is required.
11 March, 2012
WritersUA 2012
Join Sarah O’Keefe and Simon Bate at WritersUA. Details to come.
For conference information, see http://www.writersua.com
3 April, 2012
Vendor webcast: Collaborative content development with easyDITA
Cloud-based computing centralizes content and applications on the internet, and connects users from anywhere through a web browser. Because of this, cloud-based computing has made it easy for organizations to collaboratively develop content – where information developers and subject matter experts (SMEs) can work interactively to develop, review, and approve content.
It’s now possible and even easy for everyone in the content lifecycle to collaboratively develop DITA content:
Join Paul Wlodarczyk to see how cloud-based tools like easyDITA can change the way you approach collaboration, and in turn speed your time to publish and simplify your work process.
This webcast is part of our vendor demo series. The event is free, but registration is required.
10 April, 2012
STC Houston
Sarah O’Keefe will attend. Details to come.
12 April, 2012
Webcast: Transition to XML
A successful transition to XML and structured authoring requires a good deal of forethought and planning. In the transition, you must identify the goals of the transition, perform a structure analysis, realign workflow, select tools, configure the tools for authoring and output, educate staff, and convert legacy documents. This session by Simon Bate provides you with a planning framework that you can use to implement a structured authoring environment and transition successfully to XML and structured authoring.
This event is free, but registration is required.
17 April, 2012
Webcast: Ask the experts panel
In this interactive session, technical communication experts Sarah O’Keefe, Nicky Bleiel, and Tony Self will give their opinions about important current topics in the industry. Then they will invite the audience to share their views on these topics, and will answer questions from the audience.
This event is free, but registration is required.
26 April, 2012
Webcast: Collaboration: A hands-on demo using Confluence wiki
Let’s talk about why collaboration is a good thing, why a wiki is a good solution for it, and how to do it on Confluence. Guest presenter Sarah Maddox is a technical writer who knows how to bend a wiki to her will. Come and throw some questions at her.
Collaboration is central to a technical writer’s role. Peer review, input from subject matter experts, feedback from readers – all provide valuable content throughout the life of a document. Collaboration is what makes our documentation so good. It is how we deliver targeted information to our customers.
People say that a wiki is built for collaboration. Let’s see how to drive a Confluence wiki. We’ll start with the basics, especially useful for people who have never seen a wiki in action. Create a documentation space on the wiki. Map out the skeleton of the documentation set. Add some pages. Then we’ll see how people can work together on a document. We’ll take a look at some plugins that extend the wiki’s functionality, and see some tips on making the wiki work best for our requirements as technical writers.
This session includes a special offer – 3 winners will receive a free copy of Sarah’s book, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A Wiki as Platform Extraordinaire for Technical Communication. Books will be shipped directly to the winners, who will be announced during the webcast!
This event is free, but registration is required.