The document discusses responsive design and mobile devices for delivering medical information. It provides examples of companies using mobile strategies to translate medical content into many languages and deliver it across different devices and countries. Mobile technologies allow sharing information between doctors and patients in examination rooms. The rise of mobile traffic and diverse mobile devices requires an intelligent content strategy rather than a single mobile strategy. Responsive design is discussed as an approach that adapts content for optimal viewing on different screens.
The creation of medical device content has become one of the best examples of intelligent content. Many companies have moved to modularized structured content, developed powerful reuse strategies, and begun to tackle their translation workflow, but new challenges continue to put pressure on content teams. Join Ann Rockley as she talks about how to address some of these challenges such as 1) Rapidly changing global regulatory requirements; 2) The increasing number of SME authors; 3) Translation review (in-country reviewers vs. quality certificates); 4) The increasing rigor of workflow; 5) The full integration in the print publication process, from agencies to the manufacturing floor; and finally 6) The balance between usability and regulatory requirements.
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
Automating Adobe InDesign in the Healthcare SectorAnn Rockley
Adobe InDesign is the most widely used page layout/publishing tool in Healthcare today. It produces attractive layouts that can easily conform to requirements. However, the process of creating InDesign files and changing those files is laborious and manual. If you "marry" intelligent content with InDesign you can automate production, make changes in seconds either to the content or to the layout, and mass produce materials at the touch of a button. This session explains how you can use intelligent content to optimize and automate your InDesign process.
Reducing Errors in Life Sciences Content with Ann RockleyAnn Rockley
No one tries to create “bad content,” but it’s an unfortunate fact that errors in the field can often be traced back to problems in the content. Errors can be caused by incorrect content, lack of version control, poor claims management, missing or inconsistent content, rekeying errors or manual translation management. Our manual content creation processes are too often letting us down, and they increase both the chance of error and the length of time it takes to create content. We can’t handcraft content anymore; we need to move towards a manufacturing paradigm.
Join Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler with special guest Ann Rockley, CEO of The Rockley Group as they talks about how Life Sciences can adopt agile best practices to: rapidly respond to regulatory changes; provide the content that healthcare providers and patients need when they need it and on the device they want it in; ensure that printed content is synchronized with electronic content; and respond to increasing globalization needs.
Curlew Research Brussels 2014 Electronic Data & Knowledge ManagementNick Lynch
Life Science externalisation and collaboration overview and the challenges that Life Science companies face in delivering successful data sharing with their partners in either Open Innovation or pre-competitive workflows
Developing a Unified Content Strategy with Ann RockleyAnn Rockley
Too often, content creators work in isolation from one another. This separation is especially problematic in large companies, many of which separate content creators into discrete working units for organizational purposes. Departmental silos erected between marketing, technical, training, support and product information developers make it impossible for anyone to have a single, consolidated view of the content landscape. Without an overarching view, customers are likely to encounter inconsistent, incongruent, and incorrect content.
We call this The Content Silo Trap™. Content silos can have detrimental effects on organizations, resulting in increased costs, reduced quality, and potentially ineffective materials. A unified content strategy can help your organization avoid these and other costly challenges, reducing the costs of creating, managing, and distributing content, and ensuring that your content supports both organizational and customer needs.
In this presentation, learn how to develop a unified content strategy—a repeatae method of identifying all content requirements up front, creating consistently structured content for reuse, managing that content in a definitive source, and assembling content on demand to meet your customers’ needs. A unified content strategy is a coherent plan of attack that ensures your content is the same wherever it appears, providing customers a consistent experience every time. On brand. The right content. At the right time. In the right language and format. On the devices of your customers' choosing.
Ann Rockley — Managing the Complexities of the Core Data Sheet (CDS)Ann Rockley
The Core Data Sheet (CDS) is a critical component of the effective creation of Labeling content for different regulatory regions and outputs (Prescribing Information/Package Insert, Package Leaflet, etc.). The content is typically managed in email, complex MS Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets. It is difficult to track content relationships and ensure accuracy as the content moves out of the CDS to the desired deliverables. It is a painstaking and error-prone process.
Learn how you can use intelligent content best practices to design a structured component-based CDS. You will learn how to identify a reuse strategy to ensure content is correctly reused and tracked wherever it appears; manage the content using a structured content management system; automatically track content relationships; and manage claims and associated references throughout the content lifecycle.
“Sprinkle the Pixie Dust”: How to Sell Your Content Management Initiative Int...dclsocialmedia
You’ve recognized that your content development and publishing processes are in need of an overhaul, but getting a content management strategy approved and funded by your management team can be a tough job. In this webinar sponsored by Data Conversion Laboratory, Dr. JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems will explain how you can “sprinkle the pixie dust” around your organization to move your content management strategy forward. They will explain how to:
- Find a champion or 2
- Navigate through the approval process
- Align your content strategy with your organization’s goals
- Develop a proposal for a content management strategy
- Build the estimated return on investment for your proposal
The creation of medical device content has become one of the best examples of intelligent content. Many companies have moved to modularized structured content, developed powerful reuse strategies, and begun to tackle their translation workflow, but new challenges continue to put pressure on content teams. Join Ann Rockley as she talks about how to address some of these challenges such as 1) Rapidly changing global regulatory requirements; 2) The increasing number of SME authors; 3) Translation review (in-country reviewers vs. quality certificates); 4) The increasing rigor of workflow; 5) The full integration in the print publication process, from agencies to the manufacturing floor; and finally 6) The balance between usability and regulatory requirements.
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
Automating Adobe InDesign in the Healthcare SectorAnn Rockley
Adobe InDesign is the most widely used page layout/publishing tool in Healthcare today. It produces attractive layouts that can easily conform to requirements. However, the process of creating InDesign files and changing those files is laborious and manual. If you "marry" intelligent content with InDesign you can automate production, make changes in seconds either to the content or to the layout, and mass produce materials at the touch of a button. This session explains how you can use intelligent content to optimize and automate your InDesign process.
Reducing Errors in Life Sciences Content with Ann RockleyAnn Rockley
No one tries to create “bad content,” but it’s an unfortunate fact that errors in the field can often be traced back to problems in the content. Errors can be caused by incorrect content, lack of version control, poor claims management, missing or inconsistent content, rekeying errors or manual translation management. Our manual content creation processes are too often letting us down, and they increase both the chance of error and the length of time it takes to create content. We can’t handcraft content anymore; we need to move towards a manufacturing paradigm.
Join Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler with special guest Ann Rockley, CEO of The Rockley Group as they talks about how Life Sciences can adopt agile best practices to: rapidly respond to regulatory changes; provide the content that healthcare providers and patients need when they need it and on the device they want it in; ensure that printed content is synchronized with electronic content; and respond to increasing globalization needs.
Curlew Research Brussels 2014 Electronic Data & Knowledge ManagementNick Lynch
Life Science externalisation and collaboration overview and the challenges that Life Science companies face in delivering successful data sharing with their partners in either Open Innovation or pre-competitive workflows
Developing a Unified Content Strategy with Ann RockleyAnn Rockley
Too often, content creators work in isolation from one another. This separation is especially problematic in large companies, many of which separate content creators into discrete working units for organizational purposes. Departmental silos erected between marketing, technical, training, support and product information developers make it impossible for anyone to have a single, consolidated view of the content landscape. Without an overarching view, customers are likely to encounter inconsistent, incongruent, and incorrect content.
We call this The Content Silo Trap™. Content silos can have detrimental effects on organizations, resulting in increased costs, reduced quality, and potentially ineffective materials. A unified content strategy can help your organization avoid these and other costly challenges, reducing the costs of creating, managing, and distributing content, and ensuring that your content supports both organizational and customer needs.
In this presentation, learn how to develop a unified content strategy—a repeatae method of identifying all content requirements up front, creating consistently structured content for reuse, managing that content in a definitive source, and assembling content on demand to meet your customers’ needs. A unified content strategy is a coherent plan of attack that ensures your content is the same wherever it appears, providing customers a consistent experience every time. On brand. The right content. At the right time. In the right language and format. On the devices of your customers' choosing.
Ann Rockley — Managing the Complexities of the Core Data Sheet (CDS)Ann Rockley
The Core Data Sheet (CDS) is a critical component of the effective creation of Labeling content for different regulatory regions and outputs (Prescribing Information/Package Insert, Package Leaflet, etc.). The content is typically managed in email, complex MS Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets. It is difficult to track content relationships and ensure accuracy as the content moves out of the CDS to the desired deliverables. It is a painstaking and error-prone process.
Learn how you can use intelligent content best practices to design a structured component-based CDS. You will learn how to identify a reuse strategy to ensure content is correctly reused and tracked wherever it appears; manage the content using a structured content management system; automatically track content relationships; and manage claims and associated references throughout the content lifecycle.
“Sprinkle the Pixie Dust”: How to Sell Your Content Management Initiative Int...dclsocialmedia
You’ve recognized that your content development and publishing processes are in need of an overhaul, but getting a content management strategy approved and funded by your management team can be a tough job. In this webinar sponsored by Data Conversion Laboratory, Dr. JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems will explain how you can “sprinkle the pixie dust” around your organization to move your content management strategy forward. They will explain how to:
- Find a champion or 2
- Navigate through the approval process
- Align your content strategy with your organization’s goals
- Develop a proposal for a content management strategy
- Build the estimated return on investment for your proposal
Re-branding Content During a Migration with Marli Mesibov: Step 2--Finding Yo...dclsocialmedia
Every strong brand has a personality behind its voice. How do you ensure the personality remains consistent across multiple audiences, who speak with a variety of vocabularies? Brands that remain consistent across multiple products for multiple audiences encourage more trust, and result in more loyal customers.
In the second webinar of her series, content strategist Marli Mesibov will review brands with compelling personalities, and explore content strategy tools to create and enhance brand personalities and voices.
Marli Mesibov is a content strategist with passion for the user experience. Her work spans websites, web applications, and mobile for enterprise companies and startups across the country. She is an editor at UX Booth, and a frequent conference speaker. Marli can also be found on Twitter (@marsinthestars), where she shares thoughts on UX Design, content strategy, and Muppets. You can learn more about her and her work at http://marli.us
DITA 1.3 brings important enhancements to the DITA 1.2 key and keyref feature (scoped keys), improvements in filtering (branch filtering), the use of RELAX NG for document types, official integration of the MathML and SVG standards, improvements to the Learning and Training question-and-answer markup, as well as new domains and various smaller refinements that will make things generally easier for DITA authors. This webinar outlines what's new in DITA 1.3 with a focus on how DITA authors can use them, with a focus on features that make reuse easier.
Envisioning the Global Information Experiencedclsocialmedia
Content is created throughout the organization by different functions on different schedules, with different tools, and by different processes. The result is redundant information that is out-of-date, inconsistent, unfindable, and often doesn’t align with business goals or customer needs. This happens throughout the enterprise and most companies have no idea of the magnitude of the problem. The challenge is figuring out how to move toward a global information experience.
This webinar looks at key factors such as:
* understanding the unique value content from each function provides
* the need to understand the customer’s perspective
* the role of information architecture
* the link between standardization and quality
* use of a common operating model to lower costs
Reducing Costs Through Document Automation for a More Efficient Workplacedclsocialmedia
The document discusses how CVISION Technologies provides document automation solutions to help organizations reduce costs through more efficient document processing. It outlines challenges organizations face with document storage and processing. CVISION offers technologies like OCR, compression, and automated data extraction from forms to help address these challenges. Case studies show how CVISION solutions helped clients achieve accurate automated processing of invoices and tax forms, reducing labor costs and realizing a return on investment within months.
Marketing & Publicity For Independent Authors: Get More Buzz For Your Bookdclsocialmedia
Marketing guru Penny Sansevieri and publicist Sandra Poirios-Smith offer their expertise to independent authors in this hour-long webinar hosted by DCL. We’ll cover topics such as expanding your readership, contacting media, bundling books, digital vs print promotion, the difference between advertising and publicity, and much more.
Back to Basics: Getting the Content Essentials Rightdclsocialmedia
In this session we’ll consider what we might be neglecting in our rush to be exciting and trendy. We’ll explore the content essentials, and look at how an organization can manage and plan for them.
The Role of XML in an Information Society with Barry Schaefferdclsocialmedia
In today’s information world, there is a battle in progress between two opposing views of content management and use. This “data war” pits the rectangular, or database, view against the hierarchical, or XML, view. Unbeknownst to many of us, this influences virtually every decision related to the computerization of information in society, and can have a real and lasting impact on your automation and content decisions.
Join Barry Schaeffer for his informative webinar which will shine some light on this battle, its sources and its very real and ongoing impacts on our information lives.
Barry Schaeffer is Principal Consultant for Content Life-Cycle Consulting (www.contentlcc.com), a high-level consulting practice he founded in 2009, specializing in the conception and design of structured information and XML-based systems. He is a regular columnist for CMSWire and has been published in Datamation, Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Intranet Development Magazine and CALS Journal, among other professional publications. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and symposia. Mr. Schaeffer has previously held management and technical positions with The Bell System (Pacific Telephone), Xerox Education Division, Planning Research Corporation, U. S. News and World Report, Datalogics and Grumman Data Systems’ InfoConversion Publishing Division where he managed federal business development He is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles and the Bell System’s rigorous Management Achievement Program.
Re-Branding Content During a Migration: Step 1 – Developing Your Storydclsocialmedia
With short attention spans and a barrage of information coming at us every day, it would be easy to assume that short tag lines are the way to go when crafting copy. But long copy has been shown to be more effective. Why? Because users love stories; that is how we as humans relate to one another and understand context.
Content strategist Mari Mesibov will explain how, through storytelling, content strategists can deliver back-stories to engage and connect with users, as we have connected to one another since the beginning of time. This webinar will enlighten you about the power of stories and give tips on how to use them in your content.
Marli Mesibov is a content strategist with passion for the user experience. Her work spans websites, web applications, and mobile for enterprise companies and startups across the country. She is an editor at UX Booth, and a frequent conference speaker. Marli can also be found on Twitter (@marsinthestars), where she shares thoughts on UX Design, content strategy, and Muppets. You can learn more about her and her work at http://marli.us
DITA and Information Architecture for Responsive Web Designdclsocialmedia
Increasingly people are reading your technical content using a mobile device. How can you ensure that your DITA-based content can be read equally-well by a lineman using his weatherproofed tablet 18ft above the street, or an electronics engineer using her smartphone in a clean-room environment? The answer: responsive content. But designing effective responsive content is not just a matter of picking an HTML template and hoping for the best: you need to think about how your content will be presented, its priority to the user and how they can navigate through it. In this presentation Keith Schengili-Roberts and Phil Kneer from Yellow Pencil will talk about the information architecture considerations behind the creation of effective responsive design for technical content.
Mobile has changed the way we interact with content. As UX practitioners, we need to rethink the design paradigm for the web. Simply translating desktop designs to mobile screens is not an option. Small touch screens on smartphones, tablets, and e-readers change the way users input and interact with content. Traditional interaction elements are removed from the mobile experience, but users are now offered a new set of input methods that are not possible within the desktop environment.
Learn what goes into creating professional-looking books! Join India Amos, Managing Editor of Print and Digital Production at CN Times Books, and Allan Lieberman, Special Projects Manager, Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc., on Monday, June 30th, at 1:00pm EDT to discover what you need to know about production and design.
Whether you are publishing in print, digital, or both, this webinar will help you determine what choices you need to make for your book. We’ll cover:
• Fonts – what works?
• Paper stock, cost, and quality
• eBook conversion
• Print-on-Demand
• Cover design
• Proofing and galleys
By the end of this webinar, you should have the information you need to make informed choices about how your book will look on different ebook readers and on bookshelves.
eBooks for Education: Using Digital in the K12 Classroomdclsocialmedia
The document discusses using eBooks in K-12 classrooms, noting benefits like accessibility for students with special needs, interactivity, and cost savings compared to print books. It provides examples of different types of eBooks that could be used, such as audio books, enhanced eBooks with multimedia, and digital textbooks, and suggests ways teachers can incorporate eBooks into various subjects and leverage devices both at school and through bring your own device programs. The document also gives tips on finding free and low-cost eBook titles suitable for classroom use from various sources.
Training: A Key Component of the Global Information Experiencedclsocialmedia
Corporate training happens everywhere in the enterprise. Whenever a new employee joins the company, a new product is released to the market, or a new internal initiative is launched, there’s a need for training. And just as with other types of content, learners demand an adaptive model -- learning tailored to meet individual needs, delivered in multiple formats, and be available on demand.
Monetizing and Marketing Digital Textbooksdclsocialmedia
One of the most misunderstood concepts about digital textbooks is the cost. Many educational stakeholders mistakenly believe that the paper, printing, and shipping make up the bulk of the cost in producing a textbook, but the real expense is in the large panel of experts at the Ph.D. level and above. These experts work even at the most elementary levels to create the content that goes into a standards-based curriculum.
Marketing, Monetizing, and Mobilizing eBooks: How Content Creators Can Maximi...dclsocialmedia
This document discusses how content creators can maximize the potential of digital publishing and monetizing eBooks. It provides tips on marketing eBooks through various channels like blogs, social media, newsletters and pricing strategies. It emphasizes the importance of volume, guest writing opportunities, and being available to engage with readers to generate word of mouth. Free and lending models are presented as ways to promote content and drive revenue. Researching different promotion platforms is advised to find the best fit for different book types.
This 60-minute webinar will explore the challenges, benefits and best practices of structuring your content with the DITA XML open information standard:
Efficient - Reuse content between IFUs, catalogs and data sheets
Responsive - Generate output in multiple formats and languages
Consistent - Create compliant documentation in a single source system
Product Instructions: The Missing Piece of the Customer Experiencedclsocialmedia
The document discusses the importance of product instructions for customer experience. It provides research showing that most customers use product instructions but often find them confusing or unhelpful. This negatively impacts customers' confidence in products and likelihood of repeat purchases. The document recommends writing product instructions from a user-centric perspective using clear, concise language and supporting different learning styles through a mix of text, graphics, and other media. The goal is to address customers' main questions and provide an overall positive customer experience.
Managing the Complexities of Conversion to S1000Ddclsocialmedia
If you've ever been faced with the challenges related to converting your data to XML, this webinar is for you! In addition to the basic challenges of converting data to XML, the conversion to S1000D has the complexity of Data Module Requirements List (DMRL), Applicability and other content driven tagging structures. Having a solid plan in place and identifying issues prior to conversion is imperative to the overall success of the project.
The Freedom to Grow: How Standards in Communication Facilitate Our Industry, ...dclsocialmedia
Standards – either in the XML sense or simply communication best practices – help grow, accelerate and “professionalize” an industry. Where would construction be without material standards for width and strengths, or certification for specific skills? How could we have transportation without standards for traffic and processes? Standards are what help ad-hoc processes become enterprise-class, and allow them to scale beyond our expectations.
Technical communication is in an era of rapid, disruptive and revolutionary change. The true nature of the challenge is understood by a few, and pros and cons of potential solutions by even fewer. The future therefore will require that we work together to exchange knowledge as best we can to help each other hit the many moving targets. We must do this because our old techniques and processes just can’t keep up, and no organization has the time or funds to reinvent every solution on their own.
In “The Freedom to Grow,” Noz Urbina will explain how standards can help an organization with little funds tackle larger challenges, and larger organizations implement profound change with reduced risk. The alternative is potentially getting left behind as the industry and community rush forward.
Noz Urbina is an established content strategy thought leader, consultant and trainer specializing in cutting edge, multi-channel, business-driven content projects for marketing, business, technical and omnichannel communications. He is co-author of “Content Strategy: Connecting the dots between business brand and benefits”. Since 2000, he has provided customer experience focused services to Fortune 500 organizations and small-to-medium enterprises. Noz is the founder of Urbina Consulting, and since 2006 has been Events Chair and Content Director for Congility.com.
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of DITA Adoption?dclsocialmedia
The document discusses strengths and weaknesses of adopting the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). It outlines some of DITA's benefits such as supporting single sourcing, reuse, and semantic markup. However, it also notes challenges with DITA being both too restrictive and flexible for some users. The document provides context on what DITA is and is not, and manages expectations for how DITA should be viewed and implemented.
Adaptive Content, Responsive Design and Medical InformationAnn Rockley
In today's digital world we find that even our laptop computers are too bulky to carry around. We rely more and more on our real personal computers, our phones and tablets. In the future we can expect even smaller and more integrated and wearable technology, such as Google Glass, smart watches and related devices, and even augmented reality contact lenses. Other than the fact that they're all mobile, these devices don't have many capabilities in common. How do we create content that can be used most effectively on each of them?
Responsive Design is only a start. We need Adaptive Content and Design to take advantage of the capabilities of all these devices.
Join Charles Cooper as he explains what we need to do to make our content adaptive -both to our customers and their devices.
Some days we can feel like the Alice and the Red Queen in "Through the Looking Glass" — we have to run as fast as we can to stay in the same place, and of course, moving forward requires that we run twice as fast. And that's not possible!
Many of our frustrations are caused by the silos in our organizations. Silos that prevent us from getting the information we need and prevent us from creating the content that our customers want.
In this session, Charles Cooper talks about the pitfalls of working in silos -- but more importantly, shows you how to break free of those silos by finding natural allies in your organization. Improve your communication, and improve your content - everybody wins!
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
Re-branding Content During a Migration with Marli Mesibov: Step 2--Finding Yo...dclsocialmedia
Every strong brand has a personality behind its voice. How do you ensure the personality remains consistent across multiple audiences, who speak with a variety of vocabularies? Brands that remain consistent across multiple products for multiple audiences encourage more trust, and result in more loyal customers.
In the second webinar of her series, content strategist Marli Mesibov will review brands with compelling personalities, and explore content strategy tools to create and enhance brand personalities and voices.
Marli Mesibov is a content strategist with passion for the user experience. Her work spans websites, web applications, and mobile for enterprise companies and startups across the country. She is an editor at UX Booth, and a frequent conference speaker. Marli can also be found on Twitter (@marsinthestars), where she shares thoughts on UX Design, content strategy, and Muppets. You can learn more about her and her work at http://marli.us
DITA 1.3 brings important enhancements to the DITA 1.2 key and keyref feature (scoped keys), improvements in filtering (branch filtering), the use of RELAX NG for document types, official integration of the MathML and SVG standards, improvements to the Learning and Training question-and-answer markup, as well as new domains and various smaller refinements that will make things generally easier for DITA authors. This webinar outlines what's new in DITA 1.3 with a focus on how DITA authors can use them, with a focus on features that make reuse easier.
Envisioning the Global Information Experiencedclsocialmedia
Content is created throughout the organization by different functions on different schedules, with different tools, and by different processes. The result is redundant information that is out-of-date, inconsistent, unfindable, and often doesn’t align with business goals or customer needs. This happens throughout the enterprise and most companies have no idea of the magnitude of the problem. The challenge is figuring out how to move toward a global information experience.
This webinar looks at key factors such as:
* understanding the unique value content from each function provides
* the need to understand the customer’s perspective
* the role of information architecture
* the link between standardization and quality
* use of a common operating model to lower costs
Reducing Costs Through Document Automation for a More Efficient Workplacedclsocialmedia
The document discusses how CVISION Technologies provides document automation solutions to help organizations reduce costs through more efficient document processing. It outlines challenges organizations face with document storage and processing. CVISION offers technologies like OCR, compression, and automated data extraction from forms to help address these challenges. Case studies show how CVISION solutions helped clients achieve accurate automated processing of invoices and tax forms, reducing labor costs and realizing a return on investment within months.
Marketing & Publicity For Independent Authors: Get More Buzz For Your Bookdclsocialmedia
Marketing guru Penny Sansevieri and publicist Sandra Poirios-Smith offer their expertise to independent authors in this hour-long webinar hosted by DCL. We’ll cover topics such as expanding your readership, contacting media, bundling books, digital vs print promotion, the difference between advertising and publicity, and much more.
Back to Basics: Getting the Content Essentials Rightdclsocialmedia
In this session we’ll consider what we might be neglecting in our rush to be exciting and trendy. We’ll explore the content essentials, and look at how an organization can manage and plan for them.
The Role of XML in an Information Society with Barry Schaefferdclsocialmedia
In today’s information world, there is a battle in progress between two opposing views of content management and use. This “data war” pits the rectangular, or database, view against the hierarchical, or XML, view. Unbeknownst to many of us, this influences virtually every decision related to the computerization of information in society, and can have a real and lasting impact on your automation and content decisions.
Join Barry Schaeffer for his informative webinar which will shine some light on this battle, its sources and its very real and ongoing impacts on our information lives.
Barry Schaeffer is Principal Consultant for Content Life-Cycle Consulting (www.contentlcc.com), a high-level consulting practice he founded in 2009, specializing in the conception and design of structured information and XML-based systems. He is a regular columnist for CMSWire and has been published in Datamation, Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Intranet Development Magazine and CALS Journal, among other professional publications. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and symposia. Mr. Schaeffer has previously held management and technical positions with The Bell System (Pacific Telephone), Xerox Education Division, Planning Research Corporation, U. S. News and World Report, Datalogics and Grumman Data Systems’ InfoConversion Publishing Division where he managed federal business development He is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles and the Bell System’s rigorous Management Achievement Program.
Re-Branding Content During a Migration: Step 1 – Developing Your Storydclsocialmedia
With short attention spans and a barrage of information coming at us every day, it would be easy to assume that short tag lines are the way to go when crafting copy. But long copy has been shown to be more effective. Why? Because users love stories; that is how we as humans relate to one another and understand context.
Content strategist Mari Mesibov will explain how, through storytelling, content strategists can deliver back-stories to engage and connect with users, as we have connected to one another since the beginning of time. This webinar will enlighten you about the power of stories and give tips on how to use them in your content.
Marli Mesibov is a content strategist with passion for the user experience. Her work spans websites, web applications, and mobile for enterprise companies and startups across the country. She is an editor at UX Booth, and a frequent conference speaker. Marli can also be found on Twitter (@marsinthestars), where she shares thoughts on UX Design, content strategy, and Muppets. You can learn more about her and her work at http://marli.us
DITA and Information Architecture for Responsive Web Designdclsocialmedia
Increasingly people are reading your technical content using a mobile device. How can you ensure that your DITA-based content can be read equally-well by a lineman using his weatherproofed tablet 18ft above the street, or an electronics engineer using her smartphone in a clean-room environment? The answer: responsive content. But designing effective responsive content is not just a matter of picking an HTML template and hoping for the best: you need to think about how your content will be presented, its priority to the user and how they can navigate through it. In this presentation Keith Schengili-Roberts and Phil Kneer from Yellow Pencil will talk about the information architecture considerations behind the creation of effective responsive design for technical content.
Mobile has changed the way we interact with content. As UX practitioners, we need to rethink the design paradigm for the web. Simply translating desktop designs to mobile screens is not an option. Small touch screens on smartphones, tablets, and e-readers change the way users input and interact with content. Traditional interaction elements are removed from the mobile experience, but users are now offered a new set of input methods that are not possible within the desktop environment.
Learn what goes into creating professional-looking books! Join India Amos, Managing Editor of Print and Digital Production at CN Times Books, and Allan Lieberman, Special Projects Manager, Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc., on Monday, June 30th, at 1:00pm EDT to discover what you need to know about production and design.
Whether you are publishing in print, digital, or both, this webinar will help you determine what choices you need to make for your book. We’ll cover:
• Fonts – what works?
• Paper stock, cost, and quality
• eBook conversion
• Print-on-Demand
• Cover design
• Proofing and galleys
By the end of this webinar, you should have the information you need to make informed choices about how your book will look on different ebook readers and on bookshelves.
eBooks for Education: Using Digital in the K12 Classroomdclsocialmedia
The document discusses using eBooks in K-12 classrooms, noting benefits like accessibility for students with special needs, interactivity, and cost savings compared to print books. It provides examples of different types of eBooks that could be used, such as audio books, enhanced eBooks with multimedia, and digital textbooks, and suggests ways teachers can incorporate eBooks into various subjects and leverage devices both at school and through bring your own device programs. The document also gives tips on finding free and low-cost eBook titles suitable for classroom use from various sources.
Training: A Key Component of the Global Information Experiencedclsocialmedia
Corporate training happens everywhere in the enterprise. Whenever a new employee joins the company, a new product is released to the market, or a new internal initiative is launched, there’s a need for training. And just as with other types of content, learners demand an adaptive model -- learning tailored to meet individual needs, delivered in multiple formats, and be available on demand.
Monetizing and Marketing Digital Textbooksdclsocialmedia
One of the most misunderstood concepts about digital textbooks is the cost. Many educational stakeholders mistakenly believe that the paper, printing, and shipping make up the bulk of the cost in producing a textbook, but the real expense is in the large panel of experts at the Ph.D. level and above. These experts work even at the most elementary levels to create the content that goes into a standards-based curriculum.
Marketing, Monetizing, and Mobilizing eBooks: How Content Creators Can Maximi...dclsocialmedia
This document discusses how content creators can maximize the potential of digital publishing and monetizing eBooks. It provides tips on marketing eBooks through various channels like blogs, social media, newsletters and pricing strategies. It emphasizes the importance of volume, guest writing opportunities, and being available to engage with readers to generate word of mouth. Free and lending models are presented as ways to promote content and drive revenue. Researching different promotion platforms is advised to find the best fit for different book types.
This 60-minute webinar will explore the challenges, benefits and best practices of structuring your content with the DITA XML open information standard:
Efficient - Reuse content between IFUs, catalogs and data sheets
Responsive - Generate output in multiple formats and languages
Consistent - Create compliant documentation in a single source system
Product Instructions: The Missing Piece of the Customer Experiencedclsocialmedia
The document discusses the importance of product instructions for customer experience. It provides research showing that most customers use product instructions but often find them confusing or unhelpful. This negatively impacts customers' confidence in products and likelihood of repeat purchases. The document recommends writing product instructions from a user-centric perspective using clear, concise language and supporting different learning styles through a mix of text, graphics, and other media. The goal is to address customers' main questions and provide an overall positive customer experience.
Managing the Complexities of Conversion to S1000Ddclsocialmedia
If you've ever been faced with the challenges related to converting your data to XML, this webinar is for you! In addition to the basic challenges of converting data to XML, the conversion to S1000D has the complexity of Data Module Requirements List (DMRL), Applicability and other content driven tagging structures. Having a solid plan in place and identifying issues prior to conversion is imperative to the overall success of the project.
The Freedom to Grow: How Standards in Communication Facilitate Our Industry, ...dclsocialmedia
Standards – either in the XML sense or simply communication best practices – help grow, accelerate and “professionalize” an industry. Where would construction be without material standards for width and strengths, or certification for specific skills? How could we have transportation without standards for traffic and processes? Standards are what help ad-hoc processes become enterprise-class, and allow them to scale beyond our expectations.
Technical communication is in an era of rapid, disruptive and revolutionary change. The true nature of the challenge is understood by a few, and pros and cons of potential solutions by even fewer. The future therefore will require that we work together to exchange knowledge as best we can to help each other hit the many moving targets. We must do this because our old techniques and processes just can’t keep up, and no organization has the time or funds to reinvent every solution on their own.
In “The Freedom to Grow,” Noz Urbina will explain how standards can help an organization with little funds tackle larger challenges, and larger organizations implement profound change with reduced risk. The alternative is potentially getting left behind as the industry and community rush forward.
Noz Urbina is an established content strategy thought leader, consultant and trainer specializing in cutting edge, multi-channel, business-driven content projects for marketing, business, technical and omnichannel communications. He is co-author of “Content Strategy: Connecting the dots between business brand and benefits”. Since 2000, he has provided customer experience focused services to Fortune 500 organizations and small-to-medium enterprises. Noz is the founder of Urbina Consulting, and since 2006 has been Events Chair and Content Director for Congility.com.
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of DITA Adoption?dclsocialmedia
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Adaptive Content, Responsive Design and Medical InformationAnn Rockley
In today's digital world we find that even our laptop computers are too bulky to carry around. We rely more and more on our real personal computers, our phones and tablets. In the future we can expect even smaller and more integrated and wearable technology, such as Google Glass, smart watches and related devices, and even augmented reality contact lenses. Other than the fact that they're all mobile, these devices don't have many capabilities in common. How do we create content that can be used most effectively on each of them?
Responsive Design is only a start. We need Adaptive Content and Design to take advantage of the capabilities of all these devices.
Join Charles Cooper as he explains what we need to do to make our content adaptive -both to our customers and their devices.
Some days we can feel like the Alice and the Red Queen in "Through the Looking Glass" — we have to run as fast as we can to stay in the same place, and of course, moving forward requires that we run twice as fast. And that's not possible!
Many of our frustrations are caused by the silos in our organizations. Silos that prevent us from getting the information we need and prevent us from creating the content that our customers want.
In this session, Charles Cooper talks about the pitfalls of working in silos -- but more importantly, shows you how to break free of those silos by finding natural allies in your organization. Improve your communication, and improve your content - everybody wins!
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
The document discusses the balance between style and substance in visual design. It provides examples of designs that are either too focused on style over substance or vice versa. Effective design considers the needs and expectations of the intended users across different platforms and devices. Both style and content are important, but the priority should be meeting users' needs in an intuitive, credible way rather than just following current trends or the designer's vision.
The document discusses crowdsourcing product development using online tools. It describes how companies can collaborate with customers and external experts to drive innovation. The session will evaluate various open innovation platforms and identify factors for successful external sourcing. Participants will learn how to build continuous input streams to identify new opportunities and trends. The presentation advocates engaging customers throughout the product development process and provides examples of how companies can implement crowdsourcing best practices.
This document discusses open access to academic research and argues that open access will win through a combination of cultural and technological changes at the grassroots level. It notes that open access provides benefits like being free, saving money, having more impact, and allowing more re-use. It outlines how advocacy, early adoption, lobbying, and petitions can help drive cultural change, while improvements to repositories and alternative metrics can help through technological changes. When funders see these grassroots changes, they will feel comfortable mandating that publicly funded research be openly accessible.
How smart companies are leveraging advanced social business intelligence to understand customers, competitors and markets like never before and protect the enterprise from the myriad of risk and threats posed by social media everyday.
Research Methodology: Introduction and Processamitsethi21985
As per PTU's MBA Syllabus, Unit No. 1: An Introduction To Research: Meaning, Definition, Objectives, And Process; Research Problem: Selection Of Problem, Understanding Problem, Necessity Of Defined Problem; Review Of Literature In Research. Research Design: Meaning, Types – Descriptive, Diagnostic, Exploratory, And Experimental.
The document discusses a proposed portable ultrasound device project. It aims to create an affordable and easy-to-use portable ultrasound device to fill a gap in the market. The founders are responsible for hardware, software, and regulatory compliance. Market analysis shows strong growth in portable and handheld ultrasound devices. Feedback from customers emphasizes that the device needs to be easy to use, affordable, and better than existing options. The business model may focus on internal medicine, rural, and emergency doctors by prioritizing ease of use, image quality, and portability.
1) The webinar discusses how associations can meet rising expectations for mobile engagement at events by developing mobile apps and websites.
2) A panelist explains how her association developed a basic mobile app to provide schedules, maps, and networking to better engage attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors.
3) Future expectations for mobile include seamless check-ins, interactive notes, surveys and analytics to improve events over time.
1) The document discusses the propagation of open source software in healthcare and argues that it is inevitable. It provides an overview of open source, how and why it works, examples of open source healthcare projects, and where open source in healthcare is heading.
2) Open source software is developed and improved through global collaboration, with the source code freely available. It allows for rapid innovation and customization to user needs at low cost. Examples of emerging open source healthcare projects and alliances are described.
3) The propagation of open source models in healthcare will create virtuous spirals of shared learning and cost reduction. It lever
This document summarizes a webinar about using mobile apps to enhance events. The webinar covered trends in mobile adoption like the growth of smartphones and apps. It discussed how events can use mobile apps to engage attendees through the event and year-round. The webinar predicted that mobile apps will improve events by enabling seamless integration, historical e-portfolios, leveraging networks, detailed sponsor data, and more interactive features like check-ins, surveys, and notes. Attendees were told they could receive continuing education credit and find resources on the Meetings Focus webinar club page.
Data.gov provides access to over 400,000 datasets from 180 US agencies and organizations in easy to use formats. It encourages developers to build innovative applications using open data and drives knowledge sharing and innovation globally and across 18 communities. Data.gov is migrating its platform to the open source Open Government Platform to improve search capabilities, enable application statistics tracking, and allow federated searching of agency and local government catalogs. The presentation calls for continued collaboration to securely share and link government data and empower communities and businesses to use data to address global issues.
Dennis Massie, OCLC, USA Come for the free analysis, stay for the community...CTLes
The document discusses the potential for the OCLC ILL Cost Calculator to serve as a new platform for the interlending community to share and analyze cost data. It describes lessons learned from other data projects like the IFLA Library Map of the World and Google Street View. While gathering comprehensive usage and cost data presents challenges given data sensitivity and availability issues, starting with a basic calculator and allowing for incremental contributions could help address these obstacles. The goal is to help users understand their own costs over time and compare to peers to inform resource sharing strategies.
The Social Business Revolution: How to Get Your Organization On Board
Businesses today are moving from merely using social platforms like Facebook and Twitter as broadcasting platforms to really listening, mining and understanding social data to provide better insights about consumers that help deliver a more personalized and engaging customer experience—across the entire enterprise. Social has grown up and is proving its worth across more than just marketing functions, extending its insights and benefits across nearly every aspect of the business. Today organizations must have social woven into fabric of daily business operations from consumer marketing and sales, to service and research, to employee communications and collaboration. Whether interacting with customers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, leveraging social data for better insights, or giving its employees internal social tools for more efficient communications, a social enterprise keeps social at the core of its business. Join John Nolt, Senior Director Product Management for Oracle Social Cloud, as he illustrates how a successful social business operates and provides critical advice on how to get your organization socially enabled. Hear real-world examples of how businesses today are leveraging social collaboration, channels and data to derive winning strategies and results across not only marketing but service, commerce, sales, product development and more.
Presenter: John Nolt, Senior Director Product Management, Oracle Social Cloud
A child of the computer age, John Nolt is a Senior Director of product management and leads the team driving development of the Social Marketing and Engagement tools within Oracle's Social Relationship Management application. Prior to joining Oracle, John was Senior Director of product management for Vitrue, a leading provider of social marketing publishing software for global brands and agencies. Vitrue was acquired by Oracle in May 2012. Trained in education, John's career has focused on facilitating communication between consumers and brands, beginning in a call center as a tech support rep for Internet Service Provider MindSpring, to a long span of time as a technical communicator and editor for MindSpring and eventually EarthLink, and then moving into product management for EarthLink and subsequently Vitrue and Oracle.
1. Web 3.0 focuses on context, structure, and filtering to improve search and personalization. However, full agreement on categorization of content online is unlikely.
2. While striving for online integrity and anonymity, many willingly provide personal data to companies like Google. Integrity online is inconsistent.
3. Metrics are prioritized over branding, though brand value is long-term while metrics are short-term. User experience improves brands more than metrics.
The document discusses trends in internet and technology, including the focus on context in web 3.0, inconsistencies in online privacy and data use, and overemphasis on metrics reducing brand-building.
Science has evolved from the isolated individual tinkering in the lab, through the era of the “gentleman scientist” with his or her assistant(s), to group-based then expansive collaboration and now to an opportunity to collaborate with the world. With the advent of the internet the opportunity for crowd-sourced contribution and large-scale collaboration has exploded and, as a result, scientific discovery has been further enabled. The contributions of enormous open data sets, liberal licensing policies and innovative technologies for mining and linking these data has given rise to platforms that are beginning to deliver on the promise of semantic technologies and nanopublications, facilitated by the unprecedented computational resources available today, especially the increasing capabilities of handheld devices. The speaker will provide an overview of his experiences in developing a crowdsourced platform for chemists allowing for data deposition, annotation and validation. The challenges of mapping chemical and pharmacological data, especially in regards to data quality, will be discussed. The promise of distributed participation in data analysis is already in place.
Innovation to Commercialization Oracle and KPITRupertFallows
This document discusses using a product data hub (PDH) to manage product data across multiple systems and organizations. It provides examples of two companies that implemented Oracle's Product Hub Cloud solution: a US food company and a major UK drinks manufacturer. Both companies were facing challenges with inconsistent and scattered product data across different legacy systems. The Product Hub Cloud provided a single source of truth for consolidated product data, as well as improved data governance, processes, and time to market.
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Developing and Implementing a QA Plan During Your Legacy Data to S1000Ddclsocialmedia
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Minimalism Revisited — Let’s Stop Developing Content that No One Wantsdclsocialmedia
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Converting and Integrating Legacy Data and Documents When Implementing a New CMSdclsocialmedia
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The Smart Ass™ Fan is the latest ceiling fan from Big Ass Fans®. Smart products are everywhere now, and they’re connected. Imagine a family of smart products and how much content could be/should be shared. These products can include mechanical, electrical and software parts AND content.
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In this webinar, I will showcase scenarios in which content analysis and design were more collaborative endeavors, and advocate for getting designers and content experts in conversation early on. The result is a better product and less stressful releases.
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Using HTML5 to Deliver and Monetize Your Mobile Contentdclsocialmedia
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