Find us at these upcoming events in 2023
From May to September, here’s where you can connect with the Scriptorium team.
Conferences
Lightbulb moments from ConVEx
If you didn’t see our team in action at ConVEx this year, here are the highlights from our sessions.
Here’s where Scriptorium will be in the next few months
As 2023 marches (or speed walks) on, we want to share some important updates for how you can connect with the Scriptorium team.
Conference recap: CMS/DITA North America 2019
Metadata, taxonomy, DITA, structured authoring, case studies, and more—those were just some of the topics explored at the CMS/DITA NA conference last week. Thank you to the entire CIDM team for organizing a great conference.
Conference recap: STC Summit 2018
I’ve been working at Scriptorium for almost four years, but last week was my first opportunity to attend a conference. I spent a good amount of time on the exhibit hall floor, but I was also able to attend presentation sessions.
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.
LavaCon Portland 2017: find your tribe
Last week’s LavaCon conference in Portland, OR was the highest attended ever. And with good reason; the program was very compelling. Regardless of session focuses (web copy, chatbots, virtual reality, and more), nearly every session echoed the same themes: change is constant, collaboration is critical, find your tribe.
LavaCon Dublin 2017: spanning silos, building bridges
Two weeks ago, The LavaCon Conference made its return to Dublin, Ireland. Before I dive in, thanks to Jack Molisani for yet another fun and insightful LavaCon conference!
tcworld India 2017: Focus on the future
Positive, optimistic, energetic. Once again, the tcworld India conference in Bangalore did not disappoint.
tekom 2016: Götterdämmerung?
After the anti-DITA insurrection at tekom 2015, the 2016 conference took a turn in a different direction.
Here are a few highlights. Keep in mind that the conference is huge; it would take a platoon of people to cover the 250 technical sessions.
Viva Las Vegas: LavaCon 2016
Las Vegas has something for everyone. Whether you enjoy seeing shows, playing slot machines, eating delicious meals, or just exploring the many hotels on the strip, there’s no shortage of exciting things to do. The same can be said of LavaCon Las Vegas, which offered all kinds of sessions and activities.
Another gratuitous Pokémon Go tie-in (Scriptorium year-end conference line-up)
Will Pokémon Go still be hot at the end of the year? If so, here are some opportunities to see Scriptorium and expand your Pokémon-collecting options.
tcworld China recap
The tcworld China event took place in Shanghai April 18 and 19. I was there to present on content strategy and advanced DITA (yes, I hear your gasp of surprise), but for me, the most interesting part of the trip was getting a chance to connect with the technical communication community in China.
Sturm und DITA-Drang at tekom
This year’s tekom/tcworld conference reinforced the ongoing doctrinal chasm between North American technical communication and German technical communication.
I am speaking, of course, of the proper role of DITA in technical communication. If any.
If it’s the last quarter, this must be conference season! Our event schedule
We’re about to begin the last quarter of 2015, and that means CONFERENCES. Scriptorium is attending many tech comm and content strategy events.
Will we see you at these conferences?
The content strategy of things
This post is a recap of the presentation I delivered at Localization World Berlin on June 4, 2015. It describes how and why to adapt a content strategy in support of The Internet of Things. The presentation slides are available on SlideShare.
What is the content strategy of things? To simplify definitions, content strategy is the planning for and governance of the content lifecycle, and the Internet of Things is the connecting of devices and software to provide greater value. To adapt content strategy to the Internet of Things, the content strategy of things can be defined as the planning for and governance of connected content to provide greater value.
Impressions of the tcworld conference from a jet-lagged mind
BIG.
That’s my first impression of the tcworld conference, from which I just returned. I’m still jet-lagged from my trip, but I wanted to briefly share my experiences with those—especially from the US—who are considering attending in the future.
Help this first-time tcworld attendee, please!
Whew! I’m just back from the excellent LavaCon event in Portland. I have (mostly) recovered from that trip, so now I’m focusing on the upcoming tcworld conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. And I need your help!
From Boulder to Bangalore
When I was a high school student in Boulder, Colorado, my first job was as a stock boy in an India-imports store. The store, Hamara Dukan, stocked all sorts of handicrafts and objets d’art from India including clothing, wood carvings, brass bowls and knickknacks, hand-printed bedspreads, incense, Kashmiri boxes, and thousands of other items. After working there for a couple of years, I acquired an appreciation of the things the country produced, but was always curious about the people and what it was like to be in India.
Tekom thoughts
You know you’ve had a bad travel week when you cannot wait to compose the complaint letter to the airline. But sandwiched between flight problems, I had a great time in Wiesbaden at tekom/tcworld 2011.
The economics of information
The slides from my tekom/tcworld session on the economics of information are below.
The ROI of DITA, distance learning edition
The decision to implement DITA—or not—should be made after careful consideration of the business value that DITA brings to your organization.
