Denver, Colorado – May 14, 2013 – Acrolinx announced today availability of its 3.1 release, which expands its support for SEO by analyzing websites for search engine optimization (SEO).

With the new Website Checker capability, Acrolinx customers can scan their own site and their competitors’ sites to discover their keywords and find opportunities for improvement. In combination with Acrolinx’s Batch Checker, this new capability gives Acrolinx customers a comprehensive view of their web content’s findability, readability, and correctness.

Acrolinx will demonstrate this new capability at its upcoming user conference, June 26-27, in San Jose, California. To register or for more information, go to http://www.acrolinx.com/newsreader-events/items/acrolinx-user-conference-2013.html.

Customers who are under current maintenance and have a license to Acrolinx’s SEO functionality can immediately download the 3.1 release.

About Acrolinx

Acrolinx provides Content Optimization Software that enables companies such as Adobe, Dell, Cisco, IBM, Philips, and Siemens to make their content easier to comprehend, cheaper to translate, and easier to find. Built on a powerful linguistic analytics engine, Acrolinx helps you analyze and optimize the content you deliver to your customers. Learn more at www.acrolinx.com.

Conference: June 26-27, San Jose, CA

Conference: Apr. 15-17, 2013, Providence

2013 CMS/DITA North America

Today I am happy to announce our newest addition to the Acrolinx Team. Please join me in welcoming Allison Hepburn, our new Product Evangelist!

Allison comes to us from IBM where she served as their Technical Editing and Videography Team Lead. It was there that, among her many other duties, she was tasked with maintaining and improving the quality of IBM’s documentation using Acrolinx. Naturally, she quickly fell in love with our product’s capabilities and has been championing Acrolinx.

If you have any questions about Acrolinx in the workflow, I know that Allison’s “real world” use of Acrolinx in her former position will be extremely helpful. Be careful though, her enthusiasm is infectious.

Allison Hepburn, our new Product Evangelist can be reached at:

email – Allison.Hepburn@acrolinx.com

Linkedin – www.linkedin.com/in/allisonhepburn

Twitter – amhepburn

Tom Aldous

eSeminar Hosted By Adobe and presented by Tom Aldous of Acrolinx

Link To Recorded Video

Date – April 10, 2013

In our previous eSeminar, “The Evolution of Technical Communication Processes”, we talked about the next megatrend on the horizon.  Now it’s time to apply these concepts firsthand and fully realize the power of information quality control within one of the most powerful desktop publishing environments available today. Witness a powerful demonstration of how Acrolinx can enhance FrameMaker content far beyond where you thought it could go!

Content is king, as we all know, but many of those in the technical writing industry lack the means to truly prioritize their content. As a result, errors can escape the notice of even the most well-intentioned writers and editors. With Acrolinx, we’ll show you how to tighten your writing skills and nip these problems in the bud – from basic spelling and grammar errors, to more industry-specific problems like the use of deprecated terminology, branding violations, and ambiguous/superfluous phrases and vocabulary.  We’ll also show you how Acrolinx optimizes content reuse for purposes of consistency and localization/translation.

About the Presenter: Thomas Aldous is Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Acrolinx. A former Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Tech Comm Suite with Adobe, Tom has well over 20 years experience in high level consulting implimenting publishing solutions built around XML, DITA, FrameMaker and other products.

 eSeminar Hosted By Adobe and presented by Tom Aldous of Acrolinx

Link To Webinar Recording

Date – March 27, 2013 – RECORDED

Former Adobe Director – Business Development and Evangelism, Thomas Aldous, now Sr. Vice President, shares his perspective on where content is going. Having worked with DITA/XML and FrameMaker for years, Tom now has expanded his vision into how to optimize content and make it more useable. In his own words:

“In the couple of decades that I have been involved in the Technical Communications 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. We then evolved further by creating our content in standardized templates in a desktop publishing system. 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 current question that is begging to be asked is, so what is next?”

Knowing Tom, we can expect some highly original examples, images and useful metaphors for workflows that you probably have never thought of before. Be sure to attend this event, which is a precursor to an actual live demonstration of a dynamic solution, later in April.

About the Presenter: Thomas Aldous is Senior Vice President of Global Operations atAcrolinx. A former Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Tech Comm Suite with Adobe, Tom has well over 20 years experience in high level consulting implimenting publishing solutions built around XML, DITA, FrameMaker and other products

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.

I was asked to pass on the news about this great job opportunity at Mentor Graphics’ Technical Publications Department.

The position is based in Wilsonville, Oregon at their corporate headquarters.

If you don’t know about Mentor Graphics, you should do a little research. Great Company, great products, great opportunity!

Link to the opening: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH08/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=MENTOR&cws=1&rid=1023