Best of 2017: content strategy, localization, DITA, and more
Scriptorium wraps up 2017 with a look back at posts on content strategy, localization, DITA, and other content conundrums.
Scriptorium wraps up 2017 with a look back at posts on content strategy, localization, DITA, and other content conundrums.
In this podcast, Alan Pringle and Sarah O’Keefe discuss the history—and health—of the PDF format. Is it still useful in today’s connected world? Are there business reasons to distribute PDF files—and not to?
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
You know you’re doing content strategy wrong when…
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
Content creators love their tools. So much, in fact, they sometimes mistake selecting tools for developing a content strategy.
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
A common content strategy mistake is duplicating the look-and-feel of existing content when you’re implementing new tools and processes.
Without centralized localization processes, you will pay more for translated content, provide inconsistent translations, and possibly expose your company to significant legal liability. Here are warning signs your company needs a better localization strategy:
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
In 2013, I wrote that PDF is not dead. Four years later, it’s still too early to write the obituary.
A content strategy implementation requires you to address multiple technical facets: tool and process integration, specifications for how content is delivered, and so on. These technical details, however, are of little interest to the executives who control funding. They are much more interested in seeing results to justify continued spending.
As the new year begins, the Scriptorium team is looking back at our blog posts for 2016.
We wish you the best in 2017—and watch for merriment during the year as we celebrate our 20th anniversary.
Tina Meißner of parson AG cowrote this case study.
This case study shows how Scriptorium Publishing created the free DITA learning website LearningDITA.com by combining the DITA learning and training specialization, GitHub, XSLT, video, and WordPress—and how parson AG adapted those technologies to develop the German site, LearningDITA.de.