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 … Read More
LearningDITA Live 2020 highlights (podcast)
In episode 70 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Elizabeth Patterson shares some highlights from LearningDITA Live 2020. “Structured content is a way to strategically optimize your content so it frees your content from the format. Because it’s free of the format, it also frees … Read More
DITA projects with a scaled approach
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 … Read More
Unusual DITA outputs
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
Reuse with the Learning and Training specialization
You have your technical content in DITA, and you are reaping the benefits of reuse. Now it’s time to move your training content over, but it’s a little confusing to figure out how to structure your content with DITA Learning and Training elements. How can … Read More
LearningDITA: four years later
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 … Read More
CMS/DITA NA conference interviews: part two (podcast)
In episode 51 of the Content Strategy Experts podcast, Elizabeth Patterson and Gretyl Kinsey talk with vendors at the CMS/DITA North America conference about how they have seen DITA evolve during their time in the industry. This is part two of a two-part podcast.
Full transcript of CMS/DITA NA conference interviews: part one (podcast)
Elizabeth Patterson: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts podcast, brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize, and distribute content in an efficient way. In Episode 50, we talk with attendees at the CMS/DITA North America Conference about how … Read More
CMS/DITA NA conference interviews: part one (podcast)
In episode 50 of the Content Strategy Experts podcast, Elizabeth Patterson and Gretyl Kinsey talk with attendees at the CMS/DITA North America conference about how they have used DITA in their career and the challenges they have overcome. This is part one of a two-part … Read More
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.