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How to Reuse DITA Content
Reusing content is beneficial but complicated without knowing how and what to reuse. Join easyDITA to learn how to set up reuse strategies, tie in organizational goals, and employ best practices for your team. About the Visiting Dojo Master Gosia…
Expanding Horizons: Open Source, Social Coding, and Your Career
Technical Writing is a profession with a bright outlook, and the sun is burning hottest in the open source arena. Remote source control sites like GitHub and BitBucket are new landscapes for technical writers. These sites provide places where you…
- Key Concepts: productivity, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: TC Dojo
Productivity Hacks for Technical Communicators
Feeling overwhelmed? Stuck? Less productive than you want to be? Join us in discovering five productivity hacks that you can implement today that will help you be more productive! Today's technology allows us to get more done faster, but this…
Building a Style Guide from the Ground Up
How do you establish a style guide, and how do you keep it going? In this session, I’ll talk about my experience implementing and maintaining a corporate style guide. What started as a casual department guide for 25 tech writers…
How to Identify DITA Topic Types (like a Pro)
When you're new to DITA everything seems hard. Even choosing a topic type. New writers lean away from the specialized toward the generic. Teams get inconsistent structures for similar information across deliverables. In this session, Liz Fraley will show you…
Add Super Power to Your Communication with Super Structures
Super structures can increase performance and boost your productivity. They take advantage of economies of scale in your routine communication without causing you to succumb to numbing uniformity. Say what?! Super structures are logic flows that help you evaluate and…
Ki, Qi, Key: The Way of DITA Harmony With Keys and Key References
An introduction to DITA's key and key reference facility: why, when, and how. If you have images, content references, variable text, or cross references in your DITA content you need keys. This presentation helps harness the energy of your content…
Techniques for keeping up in your profession
Every year there are hundreds of “trends” articles. Trends don't matter. What matters is whether something is appropriate to your customer and your company's mission. More important, then, is not knowing what trend is coming but knowing how to keep…
- Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: TC Dojo