Webinar
22 May 2013 | 12pm ET (18pm CET)

Conference: Apr. 15-17, 2013, Providence

2013 CMS/DITA North America

eSeminar Hosted By Adobe and presented by Tom Aldous of Acrolinx

Link To Recorded Video

Date / Time – April 10, 2013 at NOON EST

I am looking forward to presenting this webinar sponsored by Adobe. So many people have asked me, “What is Acrolinx?”, “Can Content Optimization Be Automated”, “How Can I Get Reports On The Shape Of Our Content In Our Repository” and “Can I See a Demo Of The Technology?”.

On Wednesday April 10, 2013 I will be providing answers to all those questions in this fast paced webinar. Register now at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2184057&loc=en_us

Recorded Link

Webinar
12 March 2013, 12 pm ET (18 CET)

Introduction To Acrolinx

Free Recording Of eSeminar: http://www.acrolinx.com/watch_webinar/items/introduction-to-acrolinx-773.html

Presenter:
Michael Klemme, Senior Solutions Architect, Acrolinx

Date:
Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 4-5 pm CET (10 am ET)

Description:
In this webinar you’ll learn about the Acrolinx content optimization software. We’ll demonstrate how Acrolinx improves content quality throughout your organization and how it helps you to establish more efficient and cost-effective processes. Built on a powerful linguistic analytics engine, Acrolinx helps you create content that is consistent, stylistically correct and employs the correct terminology. Acrolinx can be implemented in almost any environment or department, from technical documentation to product development and support to marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).

Acrolinx features include:

• Spell and grammar checking
• Style and terminology checking
• Multilingual terminology management
• Reusable text modules
• User-friendly operation

Benefits for your organization include:

• Reduced translation costs
• Accurate and consistent content
• Search Engine Optimization
• Automated reporting

This webinar is intended for anyone interested in getting a first look at the Acrolinx software. Successful companies including Adobe, Cisco, IBM, Philips, and Siemens rely on Acrolinx as their foundation for content communication.

Register - 2-part SERIES: DITA Specialization

When - January 08-10, 2013

Section 1 – Tuesday, January 08,2013 RECORDED VIDEO PRESENTATION

Section 2 - Thursday, January 10,2013 RECORDED VIDEO PRESENTATION

Topic-based and structured authoring offer many advantages, especially with DITA. Many people feel that they must adhere to the “standard” definition of DITA. While this can be the best route in some instances, there are tremendous advantages in DITA Specialization, which can automate a variety of tasks associated with document structure and formatting. Benefits of DITA Specialization can be magnified by the number of target languages that you translate into. This 2-part series will cover first the strategy and planning phases, then show actual live examples of DITA Customization.

Session 1) Modeling DITA Specialization
In this session, we examine the process of analyzing your DITA needs and determining where specialization is most appropriate and potentially the most powerful. Find out how to analyze your content and build the right road map before beginning the specialization process.

Session 2) DITA Specialization: live, dynamic examples

This second session will focus on actual working examples of specialized DITA in FrameMaker 11. You will see live documents with relatively simple specialization that enables a variety of transformations to occur automatically.

Your “take-aways” from this series will be (a) determining if DITA Specialization is right for you and (b) how to actually accomplish it. Join Adobe’s Tom Aldous, Director, Global TechComm Business Development and Product Evangelism, as he guides us on this fascinating technical journey. Before joining Adobe, Tom spent over 20 years as a consultant, frequently specializing in complex DITA and XML projects which required specialization for industries ranging from nuclear power to financial.

Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations in a 5-part eSeminars Series

June 28, 2012 – July 19, 2012 – Recorded

I recieve inquires about how to move a workflow from unstructured content (be it MSWord or FrameMaker) to an XML one often. The process requires several steps, but once mastered you will be able to “Unleash The Protential Within Your Documentation”.

This is where FrameMaker becomes automagical.

It is very important that you follow the series start to finish. I will bring a sample document through the full process and create all necessary system files. I will provide all files created on my blog.

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 1:

Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table 

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register%5Fno%5Fsession&id=1832114&loc=en%5Fus

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 2:

Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register%5Fno%5Fsession&id=1839616&loc=en%5Fus

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 3:

Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?id=1844301&loc=en%5Fus&event=register%5Fno%5Fsession

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 4:

Element Definition Document (EDD) – Home Grown or a Standard

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?loc=en%5Fus&id=1855039&event=register%5Fno%5Fsession

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 5:

Creating your Structured Template from an Unstructured One

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?id=1855043&event=register%5Fno%5Fsession&loc=en%5Fus

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 6:

Structure Applications and What Is Necessary and How To Create

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?loc=en%5Fus&event=register%5Fno%5Fsession&id=1863995

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 7:

Save As XML, Now What?

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register%5Fno%5Fsession&id=1877651&loc=en%5Fus

I will be taking you through all the steps and workflow requirements to move you from anUnstructured To an XML / FrameMaker 10 workflow. It is going to be an instructional series.

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In the couple of decades that I have been involved in the Technical Communication industry, there has been a very interesting migration of processes and workflows.

At first, simply creating our content in a word processor was a huge productivity enhancer. This was a case of collecting the “low hanging fruit of productivity”, but it caused its own issues. We evolved further by creating our content in standardized templates in a desktop publishing system. This approach gave us a standard look and feel across our documentation set. Some enterprises started to manage their unstructured content in Content Management Systems, while others were happy to put in place a simple revision control mechanism.

Some large enterprises started to create structure content in SGML format, while others were happy to perfect the automated book paradigm. Paper output was the normal, but soon PDF became the online format of choice. SGML was too complex for most non-Government entities. XML soon came on the scene. Managing and publishing this XML Content with more sophisticated Content Management Systems became the trend.
Lately consumers have adopted and adapted to a mobile content interactive experience using their new tablets and smart phones. Single sourcing content to these multiple devices in an automated fashion is the current “holy grail”, but which approach is best? The choices are very interesting.

The current question that is begging to be asked is, so what is next?

I hope you come to TCWorld India 2013, Bangalore February 21st and 22nd. We can talk more about what you think the future of TechComm will bring.

Here is the latest blog post describing one of the exciting new features in FrameMaker 11 called Smart Insert. We hope that this will make your job of working with elements, paragraph/character catalogs much easier and make you more productive!

Read on for more details http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/11/smart-insert-in-fm11.html