Archive for August, 2009

STC offers four online courses where participants can earn a certificate. The courses are divided into 90-minute sessions and presented live online over five to eight weeks. Participants must log in for all sessions to (Read more...)

Every time I mention that we are exploring a new open source application to help support our customers, our Business Development VP, Matt Arnold, asks the very reasonable question, “How do these guys make a (Read more...)

DITA XML is of little use to readers unless it’s converted to some kind of output. The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT) provides transforms and scripts that convert DITA to PDF output and a long (Read more...)

We still have a few copies left of the second edition of Technical Writing 101. I want these last copies out of the office (how’s that for truth in advertising?), so I have marked them (Read more...)

Scriptorium and JustSystems are announcing a three-webinar series on preparing to use DITA.The first two webinars in the series describe the age-old problem of converting legacy content into DITA. Because a great deal of unstructured (Read more...)

For August and September, our webinar schedule is as follows:DITA 101, August 18 at 11 a.m. Eastern timeParticipants will learn about basic Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) concepts, the business case for implementing DITA, and (Read more...)

Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation (XML Press, ISBN: 9780982219119) by Anne Gentle provides technical communicators with a roadmap for integrating social media — blogs, wikis, and much more — into their content (Read more...)

Switch to our mobile site