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Publish High-Quality, Print-Ready DITA in less than a day

b Post Summary Everyone says, “Publishing DITA is Hard!” But the truth is you can publish DITA content for ePub and Print output with very little work. The promise that vendors (like us) have been giving for 20 years is…

Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Are you going to camp this summer?

Are you coming to TC Summer Camp? Have you been to TC Camp? TC Camp, the non-profit we launched last year is expanding! The board at TC Camp is taking it to the East Coast next month: It's TC Summer…

Key Concepts: news
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
Venues: TC Camp

Do you feel lucky?

Last month at STC Summit, someone came by our booth and we got to talking about the TC Dojo. The TC Dojo is a webinar series we started 4 years ago. It works like this: First, we poll the community…

Key Concepts: jobs and careers, news, soft-skills, training and mentoring
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Collaboration – Love it or Hate it?

This month I wanted to find out if you have come to love or hate collaboration in any of it's forms. I'm a big experimenter which often means I'm a big collaborator. In January's TC Dojo, we had Karl Klashinsky…

Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Paper or ePub?

Did you know that reading on a kindle or other electronic device isn't the same to your brain as reading on paper? Well, as it turns out: Neuroscience, in fact, has revealed that humans use different parts of the brain…

Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

How long do you struggle before you ‘Let It Rest’?

Here at Single-Sourcing Solutions, we often find ourselves on the leading edge of working with new features or on the back side of working with old features to wrangle them into doing what our customers need them to do today….

Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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Do you experiment?

Last month Tom Johnson of the I'd Rather be Writing blog interviewed me about why I started TC Camp. He wanted to know why I started something that was so obviously energy and resource intensive?It's true that I have a…

Key Concepts: best practices, collaboration, jobs and careers, soft-skills
Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
Venues: TC Camp, TC Dojo

Thanks to all those who joined Guru D and the Cult of DITA at Lavacon

At Lavacon last month I gave two presentations: one traditional and one…Not. We all know that I like to experiment right? TC Camp, TC Dojo, TPC Affinity Groups are my most successful and well known. This time, I decided I…