In episode 71 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Barbara Green of ACS Technologies talk about getting started with DITA.
“We ran the conversion and got the content in DITA. It wasn’t structured the way it would be if you had started writing in DITA from the beginning. If I ever had another project, I would know to really take that into consideration.”
—Barbara Green
Learning content professionals spend a lot of time creating content for instructor guides, presentations, assessments, and other deliverables. To adapt that content for multiple contexts, these content developers often:Executive summary
In episode 69 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Bill Swallow and Stephani Clark of Jorsek talk about using a scaled approach with DITA projects.
“The desktop publishing and single user tools are always going to have a much lower price tag than a DITA CCMS will, but there’s a trade off for what you’re getting.”
—Stephani Clark
March 2025 update: We have moved LearningDITA to a new platform. The Introduction to DITA course is still free, and you can sign up for courses at store.scriptorium.com.
In episode 68 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Simon Bate talk about unusual outputs from DITA sources.
” With DITA, it’s incredibly flexible. We can generate almost any type of output that we want to with it.”
—Simon Bate
Gretyl Kinsey presents Extreme conditions in DITA on December 5th at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Do your customers need different variants of your documentation? Is there content you should include in some product documents and exclude from others? Conditions in DITA make it possible. This session explains how to set up conditional content in DITA, from the basics to advanced reuse techniques, so that you can plan for custom content delivery.
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Dive deeper into DITA at the third LearningDITA Live event.
With beginner, intermediate, and advanced sessions, along with case studies, there’s something here for everyone. We hope you can attend live and ask questions. Sessions will be recorded and available for you to view the following week.
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In episode 60 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Elizabeth Patterson and Gretyl Kinsey discuss content reuse, how it specifically applies to DITA, and how it can benefit your organization.
“So often we see companies wasting a lot of time copying and pasting. This idea of reuse saves time and money, and then it also helps to maintain that consistency across your organization.”
— Elizabeth Patterson
Join Bill Swallow on October 10th at 6 p.m. ET for his presentation, Simplify your rebranding efforts with DITA. Learn how investing in a smart content infrastructure can take the pain out of manually rebranding your content.
LearningDITA.com got a makeover! We rolled out an update to the learning management system to give you a better user experience when taking the courses.
If you had told me in July 2015 that LearningDITA would have 10 courses and be available in three languages, I wouldn’t have believed you. Since the site’s initial launch, it’s grown from a single course to a major resource for those who need to learn to use DITA.
March 2025 update: We have moved LearningDITA to a new platform. The Introduction to DITA course is still free, and you can sign up for courses at store.scriptorium.com.
