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The benefits of structured content for learning & development content

In this episode, Alan Pringle, Bill Swallow, and Christine Cuellar explore how structured learning content supports the learning experience. They also discuss the similarities and differences between structured content for learning content and technical (techcomm) content.

Even if you are significantly reusing your learning content, you’re not just putting the same text everywhere. You can add personalization layers to the content and tailor certain parts of the content that are specific to your audience’s needs. If you were in a copy-and-paste scenario, you’d have to manually update it every single time you want to make a change. That scenario also makes it a lot more difficult to update content as you modify it for specific audiences over time, because you may not find everywhere a piece of information has been used and modified when you need to update it.

— Bill Swallow

Christine Cuellar
April 7, 2025
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AI DITA Webinar

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

Sarah O'Keefe
March 17, 2025
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Learning content Podcasts Taxonomy

Building your futureproof taxonomy for learning content (podcast, part 2)

In our last episode, you learned how a taxonomy helps you simplify search, create consistency, and deliver personalized learning experiences at scale. In part two of this two-part series, Gretyl Kinsey and Allison Beatty discuss how to start developing your futureproof taxonomy from assessing your content needs to lessons learned from past projects.

Gretyl Kinsey: The ultimate end goal of a taxonomy is to make information easier to find, particularly for your user base because that’s who you’re creating this content for. With learning material, the learner is who you’re creating your courses for. Make sure to keep that end goal in mind when you’re building your taxonomy.

Allison Beatty
February 10, 2025
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Learning content Podcasts Taxonomy

Taxonomy: Simplify search, create consistency, and more (podcast, part 1)

Can your learners find critical content when they need it? How do you deliver personalized learning experiences at scale? A learning content taxonomy might be your solution! In part one of this two-part series, Gretyl Kinsey and Allison Beatty share what a taxonomy is, the nuances of taxonomies for learning content, and how a taxonomy supports improved learner experiences in self-paced e-learning environments, instructor-led training, and more.

Allison Beatty: I know we’ve made taxonomies through all sorts of different frames, whether it’s structuring learning content, or we’ve made product taxonomies. It’s really a very flexible and useful thing to be able to implement in your organization.

Gretyl Kinsey: And it not only helps with that user experience for things like learning objectives, but it can also help your learners find the right courses to take. If you have some information in your taxonomy that’s designed to narrow it down to a learner saying, “I need to learn about this specific subject.” And that could have several layers of hierarchy to it. It could also help your learners understand what to go back and review based on the learning objectives. It can help them make some decisions around how they need to take a course.

Allison Beatty
February 3, 2025
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Learning content Podcasts

Transform L&D experiences at scale with structured learning content

Ready to deliver consistent and personalized learning content at scale for your learners? In this episode of the Content Operations podcast, Alan Pringle and Bill Swallow share how structured content can transform your L&D content processes. They also address challenges and opportunities for creating structured learning content.

There are other people in the content creation world who have had problems with content duplication, having to copy from one platform or tool to another. But I will tell you, from what I have seen, the people in the learning development space have it the worst in that regard—the worst.

— Alan Pringle

Alan Pringle
January 13, 2025
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tcworld 2025

November 11th—13th

Stuttgart, Germany

Come see us at tcworld 2025, the largest technical content conference in the world! Hear Scriptorium CEO Sarah O’Keefe speak in the following session.

Accelerating global content delivery with structured learning content

This case study presentation describes an implementation of structured learning content for a major organization that supports technology professionals with training and certification programs

The organization client manages a growing portfolio of digital content, certification materials, and training resources. They needed robust, scalable content operations to keep pace with evolving learning needs and market demands. They evaluated several traditional learning content systems, but none of them met their stringent requirements for authoring, flexibility, automation, and extensibility. Ultimately, the organization decided to build learning content ops on a DITA-based CCMS.

Today, the source content is unified in a centralized repository where all content is stored and managed, eliminating the recurring production headaches of duplication, versioning, and copy and paste. Their instructional designers no longer spend time on formatting and file management—instead, they focus on crafting better learning experiences.

The presentation describes the process of moving from traditional learning tools to a component-based approach.

Want to see this session live? Register for tcworld on the conference site.

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Christine Cuellar
December 2, 2024
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LavaCon 2025

October 5th-8th

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Join our team in Atlanta for the 2025 LavaCon Content Strategy Conference! Here’s where you can see our team in action during the event.

The impossible dream: Unified authoring for customer content

Is it really possible to configure enterprise content—technical, support, learning & training, marketing, and more—to create a seamless experience for your end users? In this session, Sarah O’Keefe discusses the reality of enterprise content operations: do they truly exist in the current content landscape? What obstacles hold the industry back? How can organizations move forward?

In this session, attendees will learn:

  • The challenging status quo in enterprise content ops
  • The reasons that we don’t have any good solutions
  • A vision of the way forward

Smart content for smart learning: Transforming DITA into LMS courses

Scriptorium launched LearningDITA 10 years ago. When the site struggled to support an ever-increasing number of students, we faced a dilemma. How could we build a new site with a better learning experience while using the same DITA source files as the foundation? In this session, Alan Pringle unpacks the story of LearningDITA, sharing practical insights that apply to anyone who’s looking for a structured approach to learning content.

Learn how we transformed DITA content into LMS e-learning courses by:

  • Creating content and assessments using the DITA Learning and Training specialization
  • Developing an automated SCORM publishing pipeline
  • Customizing how the Moodle LMS integrates SCORM packages into the learning experience

Swag, chatting, and chocolate at the Scriptorium booth

Don’t forget to stop by our booth (#31 in the Salon Ballroom) to chat with our team, grab a free copy of our book, Content Transformation, chocolate, and more!

Save $200 on your LavaCon registration using the referral code Scriptorium25. 

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Christine Cuellar
December 2, 2024
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