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Advance Your Career Through Self-Publishing
Writing a book gives you an opportunity to provide tangible value. It can establish your brand and increase your professional standing. Information professionals are uniquely positioned to take advantage of self-publishing because we already know how to transform source material…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
Style Guides: Fashionable But Also Practical
Having problems with inconsistently written documentation? Do your user manuals need some help themselves? If so, then you need a style guide for your technical writing team. We’re not talking about what they should wear, but how they should write….
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
Get your [bleep] together…with DITA maps
In this TC Dojo session, we’ll talk about maps, maps, and more maps. Using maps to organize your thoughts, your keys, your content, your deliverables. We’ll talk about mini-maps and deliverable maps, and why you should not use bookmaps (unless…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
Adding Custom Actions to OxygenXML Frameworks
Elizabeth Fraley will walk through one way to customize the OxygenXML environment. What you will learn: How custom actions can personalize your OxygenXML environment How custom actions work How to add menu items and toolbar buttons that will trigger your…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
Harnessing the Chi of Swagger in Your API Docs
Frequently when tech writers start creating API documentation, a developer will ask, Why don't we use Swagger? Swagger, or the OpenAPI specification, is an open standard for describing your REST API. The Swagger/OpenAPI spec, which is created in YAML or…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
The Art of Personal Branding: How to Tell the YOU Story and Gain New Customers
If you want someone to hire you or your company, you need to be able to tell your story: who you are, what your plan is, and what defines you. There are key points to address at each point in…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
Editing the Work of Non-Native English Speakers
As content ninjas in a global environment, editors often get asked to improve content created by non-native English speakers. While it can be challenging to edit this type of content, knowing the common mistakes can help you be more efficient…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo
How to Use Root-Cause Analysis to Promote Information Supply Chain Methodologies
If your documentation process is implicated in a customer quality incident (CQI), Congratulations! You have the platform needed to shine a light on the problems you’ve been escalating for years. In this presentation, Seth Park will argue that errors in…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext styler, dita, epub, page layout and print publishing
- Filed under: Presentations, Webinars
- Venues: AIIP, Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo