JoAnn Hackos’s Workshop Series announces the DITA: Getting Started workshop in Chicago, IL January 20-21, 2009, taught by Frank Miler.

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) provides you with an open-source OASIS standard to support topic-based authoring of well-structured content. Out of the box, DITA encompasses three primary information types (concept, task, and reference) that provide a structure amenable to most technical information, as well as a mechanism for extending the structure to specialize your industry's needs.

This workshop is designed as an introduction to Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). DITA is an information architecture that presents a powerful solution for information developers. It is meant for those who need to implement structured documentation, including writers, editors, information architects, and their managers.

This workshop will cover the basics of creating DITA topics, assembling them into maps, creating relationship tables, and getting everything to process for final output. Everything is hands-on. You are required to bring a laptop computer and sample documentation to complete exercises with. Be prepared to learn how to use a DITA XML editor to author topics.

Receive the Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture book free with registration to this workshop.

To register and for information about this workshop please visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/dita.shtml.

Join us for the premier content management conference of the year. Content Management Strategies/DITA North America bring together speakers, vendors, and participants who are looking for the best solution to manage their marketing, technical, and enterprise content. Hear from and talk with the people who are looking for solutions that promote both efficiency of operations and effectiveness of message to customers. This year the conference will be held at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, April 27-29.

If you are looking for better ways to manage content and democratize content creation throughout your organization, CMS/DITA 2009 will meet your needs.

• Rolling out content management across your Global Enterprise
• Reducing the cost of translating content for Global Customers
• Establishing methods to use content throughout the Value-Creation Stream—from product development through deployment and after-market support
• Managing Modular, topic-based content for assembly into multiple deliverables
• Wondering how you are ever going to find enough time to do everything that needs to be done to restructure and invigorate all your legacy content

DITA North America, in its 5th season, brings you the leading corporate adopters, industry experts, and key vendors on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA has clearly reached a Tipping Point to become the foremost international standard for technical and business content.

Learn from the best in the field who know how to get started with a DITA implementation and reap a significant Return on Investment. Learn how quickly DITA is spreading far beyond technical manuals to technical and business content in the enterprise.

At CMS and DITA NA, you’ll find a returning community of information developers and publishers who value building and managing core content as much as its presentation and delivery.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.cm-strategies.com or contact us at info@infomanagementcenter.com or at 303-232-7586.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use workshop in Portland, ME, September 2-3, 2009 taught by Bill Gearhart. We invite you to join Bill in understanding the key to getting the maximum return on your single-sourcing investment. Learn how to reduce the quantity of documentation you produce by focusing on the needs of the users, eliminating unnecessary verbiage, and aligning your documentation strategy with your company’s market position.

Minimalism continues to be one of our most popular workshops. As you know, information developers everywhere are being told to cut the volume, reduce costs for translation, make information more easily accessible, and provide only what audiences need to know. The Minimalism workshop gives you specific guidelines for evaluating your information and making the right decisions to reduce the volume. But the Minimalism workshop is not about cutting the verbiage alone. We focus on what readers really need to know.

Bring your own materials to the workshop and participate in a series of hands-on sessions to examine your documents and plan for major changes. Many attendees report on decreasing documentation volume by 50% and translation costs by more.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

• respond to the current economic crisis by making difficult decisions about content priorities
• use metrics to legitimize your organization’s value
• respond to new product-development methodologies like Agile and Scrum
• manage innovations that promote operational efficiencies and respond to customer needs
• move content into a wiki environment
• add social media strategies to your portfolio
• extend content management across organizational boundaries

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Developing Quality Documentation in an Agile Environment workshop in Culver City,CA, October 6-7, 2009, taught by Bill Gearhart.

This workshop focuses on the Scrum Agile methodology and how documentation departments can adjust to this high-speed development environment. During the workshop you will learn to manage resources for documentation groups in an Agile environment, scope and define user stories, and prioritize your efforts when resources are scarce.

Managers and individual contributors attending this workshop will come away with a firm understanding of the Scrum process and how documentation can effectively engage in the process for both engineering and documentation-centric projects.

The course is exercise-intensive using complex but easy-to-understand examples to map out documentation planning and implementation within the Scrum process. If you have a documentation team transitioning to Scrum, we recommend coming to the workshop as a group.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/agile.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

In 2009, this is an exciting time for those in drug discovery and development field once again. With the emphasis on the practical, actionable ideas for accelerating discovery and early development, the 7th congress will be the great opportunity for the world’s leading scientists and executives to share with you the latest advancements in viral studies and their strategic approaches to win the race to bring in the next blockbuster drug to market and milestones of innovative therapeutics. Through IDDST congress 2009, you will gain a full coverage on the up-to-date with the booming drug R&D industry and its partnering potential in Asia, also deeply understand the market and current situation to get what you need, such as the strategies of major pharmacy players in integrating scientific, technological, talent and business resources in a flat world to increase business competitive capacities.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the User and Task Analysis for Information Design workshop in Pleasanton, CA October 28-29, 2009, taught by JoAnn Hackos.

The User and Task Analysis workshop provides the basis for linking customers and goals with technical content. In this two-day workshop, you learn to analyze your users and their goals, develop task lists, and link user tasks to the conceptual, background, and reference content users need. You learn to organize user tasks and supporting content into an Annotated Topic List (ATL). You then use your ATL to produce a topic-based architecture for your modular content. Apply the results of this workshop directly to your current projects. If you are moving to topic-based authoring and modular content, this workshop moves you many steps ahead in your planning process.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

• Generic task topic
• Keyref mechanism
• Constraint mechanism
• Machinery task specialization
• Hazard statements
• Glossary, terminology, acronyms
• Learning and training specialization
• Referencing a range of elements
• Conref push

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Structured Writing for Single Sourcing workshop in Santa Clara, CA December 2-3, 2009, taught by JoAnn Hackos.

This workshop is meant for those who need to implement single-sourcing and structured authoring for their content and want to understand the requirements for becoming an Information Architect. You learn how to create an Information Model, Authoring Guidelines, and project-focused Annotated Topic Lists. You consider how to develop a strategy for implementing collaborative team building. Come away from this workshop with a full understanding of how to plan and implement a structured information-development environment. This workshop gives you the tools needed to make the move to topic-based authoring manageable. .

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

• Management—building a business case, measuring ROI, reducing costs, handling translations, and more
• Information design and development—creating a collaborative work environment, handling variable content, developing a culture of structured authoring, thinking in topics, and more
• Technology—XML processing and publication, feature-based profiling, reuse strategies, and more
• Vendor demonstrations—component content management systems, XML editors, dynamic publishing, graphics management, stylesheet development, and more

JoAnn Hackos’s Workshop Series announces the DITA: Getting Started workshop in Westminster, CO May 5-6, 2010, taught by Hal Trent

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides you with an open-source OASIS standard to support topic-based authoring of well-structured content. Out of the box, DITA encompasses three primary information types (concept, task, and reference) that provide a structure amenable to most technical information, as well as a mechanism for extending the structure to specialize your industry's needs.

This workshop is designed as an introduction to DITA. DITA is an information architecture that presents a powerful solution for information developers. It is meant for those who need to implement structured documentation, including writers, editors, information architects, and their managers.

This workshop will cover the basics of creating DITA topics, assembling them into maps, creating relationship tables, and getting everything to process for final output. Everything is hands-on. You are required to bring a laptop computer and sample documentation to complete exercises with. Be prepared to learn how to use a DITA XML editor to author topics.

Receive the Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture book free with registration to this workshop.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the DITA Boot Camp workshop in San Jose, CA May 10-14, 2010, taught by JoAnn Hackos and Frank Miller.

DITA Boot Camp will cover the concepts needed to move to DITA successfully. The Boot Camp takes you from the DITA Basics to the skills you'll need to create a specific standard for your industry and your content. In this workshop you will get the core values of structured authoring, information modeling, minimalism, business process change, and DITA details and implementation. By structuring a task in DITA, learn the structure inherent in the core DITA specialized information types: task, concept, and reference.

The Boot Camp workshop requires that you bring a laptop computer, sample documentation to complete exercises with and be prepared to learn use an XML editor to author topics.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/ditabootcamp.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Developing Quality Documentation in an Agile Environment workshop in San Diego,CA, May 19-20, 2010, taught by Bill Gearhart.

This workshop focuses on the Scrum Agile methodology and how documentation departments can adjust to this high-speed development environment. During the workshop you will learn to manage resources for documentation groups in an Agile environment, scope and define user stories, and prioritize your efforts when resources are scarce.

Managers and individual contributors attending this workshop will come away with a firm understanding of the Scrum process and how documentation can effectively engage in the process for both engineering and documentation-centric projects.

The course is exercise-intensive using complex but easy-to-understand examples to map out documentation planning and implementation within the Scrum process. If you have a documentation team transitioning to Scrum, we recommend coming to the workshop as a group.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/agile.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use workshop in Boulder, CO July 13-14, 2010 taught by JoAnn Hackos. We invite you to join JoAnn in understanding the key to getting the maximum return on your single-sourcing investment. Learn how to reduce the quantity of documentation you produce by focusing on the needs of the users, eliminating unnecessary verbiage, and aligning your documentation strategy with your company’s market position.

Minimalism continues to be one of our most popular workshops. As you know, information developers everywhere are being told to cut the volume, reduce costs for translation, make information more easily accessible, and provide only what audiences need to know. The Minimalism workshop gives you specific guidelines for evaluating your information and making the right decisions to reduce the volume. But the Minimalism workshop is not about cutting the verbiage alone. We focus on what readers really need to know.

Bring your own materials to the workshop and participate in a series of hands-on sessions to examine your documents and plan for major changes. Many attendees report on decreasing documentation volume by 50% and translation costs by more.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/minimalism.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need workshop in El Segundo, CA January 25-26, 2011, taught by JoAnn Hackos. We invite you to join JoAnn in understanding the key to getting the maximum return on your single-sourcing investment. Learn how to reduce the quantity of documentation you produce by focusing on the needs of the users, eliminating unnecessary verbiage, and aligning your documentation strategy with your company’s market position.

Minimalism continues to be one of our most popular workshops. As you know, information developers everywhere are being told to cut the volume, reduce costs for translation, make information more easily accessible, and provide only what audiences need to know. The Minimalism workshop gives you specific guidelines for evaluating your information and making the right decisions to reduce the volume. But the Minimalism workshop is not about cutting the verbiage alone. We focus on what readers really need to know.

Bring your own materials to the workshop and participate in a series of hands-on sessions to examine your documents and plan for major changes. Many attendees report on decreasing documentation volume by 50% and translation costs by more.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/minimalism.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

The JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series announces the Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need workshop in Natick, MA March 8-9, 2011, taught by JoAnn Hackos. We invite you to join JoAnn in understanding the key to getting the maximum return on your single-sourcing investment. Learn how to reduce the quantity of documentation you produce by focusing on the needs of the users, eliminating unnecessary verbiage, and aligning your documentation strategy with your company’s market position.

Minimalism continues to be one of our most popular workshops. As you know, information developers everywhere are being told to cut the volume, reduce costs for translation, make information more easily accessible, and provide only what audiences need to know. The Minimalism workshop gives you specific guidelines for evaluating your information and making the right decisions to reduce the volume. But the Minimalism workshop is not about cutting the verbiage alone. We focus on what readers really need to know.

Bring your own materials to the workshop and participate in a series of hands-on sessions to examine your documents and plan for major changes. Many attendees report on decreasing documentation volume by 50% and translation costs by more.

For more information visit our web site at https://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/minimalism.shtml or contact us at workshops@comtech-serv.com or at 303-232-7586.

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

The OpenCms 8 User Experience

OpenCms 8 will bring a major update of the content manager user interface. The new Advanced Direct Edit feature will allow content managers to create, modify and publish new pages directly with drag & drop on their web pages, making OpenCms much more user friendly.

The final version of OpenCms 8 will be made available for public download on the first day of the conference. A release candidate version of OpenCms 8 will be downloadable earlier.

The conference will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the new features of OpenCms 8 directly from the developers.

OpenCms Days 2011 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions:

• Showcase track sessions will present a variety of OpenCms show cases and best practices from OpenCms projects all over the world.
• Workshop sessions for developers provide in-depth, hands-on presentations and workshops about the new technical features in OpenCms 8.

At the OpenCms Days 2011 conference expo, OpenCms solution providers will exhibit their OpenCms business solutions and enhancements.

OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.

Registration price:

Early bird registration (by March 15): 180,- Euro
Normal registration (after March 15): 200,- Euro

The full program and list of speakers will be available March 16, 2011 from the conference website.

What I teach is based on my 11+ years online, and is skills-based, practical, hands-on computer training on working directly with content.

Merry Bruns

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