The best of 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, let’s take a look at some of the most popular posts and podcasts from the year.
If you’ve taken the courses at LearningDITA.com and you’re interested in starting a DITA project, check out episode 163 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast where Bill Swallow and Sarah O’Keefe talk about the steps you can take to get funding.
“Showing up with cookies never hurts, but what is your executive’s motivation from a business point of view? What are they trying to accomplish in their goals for this next quarter or month or year, and so on? You need to show them, assuming that you can, that moving to structured content, moving to DITA, and changing tools is going to help achieve those business goals.”
— Sarah O’Keefe
In episode 141 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Alan Pringle and Christine Cuellar discuss the story behind LearningDITA, the free DITA training created by the Scriptorium team.
What we are trying to do with this site is give people a free resource where they can go and, at their own pace, learn about what DITA is and how it can apply to their content and their content processes. It’s a way to take some of the technical mystique out of it, to bring it down and help you learn what it is and how it works.
– Alan Pringle
Are you considering a transition to DITA XML and wondering where to get started? LearningDITA.com provides free e-learning courses on the foundational aspects of DITA. Each lesson includes instructions, practice exercises, and quizzes to test your knowledge, supplemented with additional resources.
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 it from tools.”
—Bernard Aschwanden
As 2019 comes to a close, let’s take a look at some of the most popular posts and podcasts from the year.
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.
Follow @LearningDITA for event updates.
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 free 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.
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 47 of the Content Strategy Experts podcast, Elizabeth Patterson shares some highlights from LearningDITA Live 2019, a web conference focused on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML standard. This is part 2 of a 2-part series.