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In a recent post, titled The Role of Taxonomy in Intelligent Content, Paul Wlodarczyk makes a host of very good points on why investing in a taxonomy should be seen as an essential part of every intelligent content project. Continue reading How about a Taxonomy with that Intelligent Content? – Paul Wlodarczyk There has been a marked upswing in posts touching upon intelligent content as we approach Intelligent Content 2011 – now only two weeks away! Scott Abel, Ann Rockley and Joe Gollner have all made contributions to the discussion… As an experiment, a word cloud was generated for the Intelligent Content 2011 program. The word cloud was generated using Wordle. It paints an interesting picture…with many key themes coming into focus… . . . → Read More: Visualizing the Intelligent Content 2011 Program In taking a look at the specific question of sharing content between documentation and training materials, Hava Haberfield from Eastman Kodak explores another angle to her Intelligent Content 2011 presentation Lessons Learned from Kodak’s DITA Experience. For the Kodak knowledge-management team, one of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of our DITA implementations has been our ability to reuse information in documentation and training deliverables. The members of the Kodak team have developed a comprehensive approach to content development, an approach that includes extensive content sharing. Continue reading Intelligent Learning Content – Hava Haberfield Attendees at Intelligent Content 2011 have one more thing to look forward to. As attendees, they will qualify for a special discount on the purchase of the hardcopy version of Information Management Best Practices (Volume 1). This book has been recently published by The Information Management Foundation (TIMAF) and it assembles 19 case studies that showcase information management best practices drawn from leading organizations around the world. Program co-chairs, Ann Rockley and Joe Gollner, have provided case studies to this collection that showcase the deployment of intelligent content strategies in real-world environments. Continue reading Information Management Best Practices – A Special Offer Don Day is a leading voice in the community that has been evolving the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Most recently, Don has turned his attention to how DITA and Web 2.0 collaboration tools can be deployed to address an important challenge – how do we tap into, stitch together and capitalize upon the knowledge of subject matter experts (SMEs)? This question will be the focus of his presentation at Intelligent Content 2011 – DITA Collaboration for Content Makeovers. He has also approached the question in a couple recent blog posts… Continue reading DITA, Web 2.0 and Works of Art – Don Day Mark Lewis of Quark has posted an interesting introduction to the workshop, Measuring the ROI in DITA, that he will be delivering at Intelligent Content 2011. Best of all, he has called this introduction The First Rule of XML Club is “You don’t talk about XML”. The idea behind the first rule of the XML Club, and of the workshop, is that you need to move past the intricacies of XML and DITA and talk to business stakeholders in terms that make sense to them – namely the time and money that can be saved. Got a corporate content strategy? Got a corporate social media strategy? Do they work to complement each other? Yeah, we thought so. According to Marisa Peacock, what is really needed is a content strategy that is fully integrated with a balanced approach to leveraging social media marketing. Continue reading Content Strategy and Social Media Marketing – Marisa Peacock As a foretaste of her presentation, Lessons Learned from Kodak’s DITA Experience, Hava Haberfield from Eastman Kodak discusses some of the most important considerations to keep in mind when setting out to introduce intelligent content into existing publishing processes. Is your management expecting your technical communicators’ operation to become leaner, doing more with less? Are your customers expecting to get all the information that they need, when they need it, to become more productive? The Kodak knowledge-management team was facing the same situation a few years ago. To meet these expectations, we embarked on the DITA journey, which has resulted in a series of successful DITA implementations. Net savings attributable to DITA have exceeded over a million dollars in only two years. Continue reading Saving Megabucks & Meeting Business Goals at Kodak – Hava Haberfield It’s an interesting question. Is the “I-Generation” the perfect mobile workforce? And it’s not a coincidence that it’s David Clemons who is asking the question. Along with Michael Kroth, he is the author of a new book on the topic called Managing the Mobile Workforce, published by McGraw-Hill. And one of the ventures of his company Achieve Labs Inc. is LearnCast, a platform for delivering Mobile Learning Solutions. David is also presenting a workshop at Intelligent Content 2011 with the engaging title Please, Turn Your Mobile Device On! Now back to David’s original question. The I-Gen, the perfect mobile workforce? For some of David’s thoughts on the answer, read on… Continue reading I-Gen, the Perfect Mobile Workforce? asks David Clemons |
 
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