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June 23, 2008 – Bedford, NH – DocZone.com (doczone.com) today announced the forthcoming release of DocZone Lite™, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for creating, managing and publishing content.

The new DocZone Lite product is modeled as a complete end-to-end solution, bundled with  many of the key features of the original DocZone suite, including browser-based XML authoring, workflow, and single-source publishing to PDF (using the embedded TopLeaf composition engine) and HTML help. The major difference with DocZone Lite is the open source Alfresco CMS platform at its core.  This allows the primary DocZone features to be offered to users for a much lower cost. DocZone Lite is bundled with an XML schema, preconfigured workflows, and basic stylesheets for single source publishing, so that it is ready to use “out of the box” with little to no additional setup required.

For the full release see here »

Adobe(r) Systems have announced that they will be giving away two full copies of Adobe Technical Communication Suite (worth £1320 each) at X-Pubs 2008!

One for attendees of the free FrameMaker(r) and RoboHelp (r) workshop, and the second is on offer at Adobe's Stand.  With only 15 seats in the workshop, attendees have excellent chances of winning!

Register today for a chance to win!

The XML & Component Content Management Report 2008 provides an overview of leading CCM products as well as XML editing tools, including detailed comparative evaluations of 14 CCM vendors and five XML editing products.

All registrants will be emailed information on how to claim.

For more about the report see http://www.cmswatch.com/CCM/Report/

Best Practices for DITA Specializations: What You Need to Know Before Specializing

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Webinar Attendees also receive up to 15% off entry to the X-Pubs 2008 Conference in London, UK  

Congratulations! You have the green light to adopt a DITA strategy. As you start planning, you may recognize that your content doesn't fall into the pre-defined categories of Concepts, Tasks or References. Consider specialization. Specialization is a key feature of DITA that allows DITA information types to be customized for the authoring and publishing needs of your organization.

To get you started, Tom Magliery of JustSystems will review things to consider when evaluating the need to specialize. Tom will walk through steps to design a specialization and through a live demonstration, show a practical example of how to specialize.

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Join us in this complimentary Webinar and learn:

    » How specialization works
    » How much you would need to specialize DITA to make it work for your team
    » Best practices when planning a specialization
    » How to specialize through a live demonstration, examples and practical use cases

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Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 2:00pm GMT

Learn about the six defined stages of DITA adoption for maximum success.

Paper by 2007 X-Pubs Keynote Michael Priestley, IBM and X-Pubs 2008 Presenter Amber Swope, JustSystems

Webinar Registration Closed!

Due to massive demand, this session is closed. Watch the X-Pubs News for upcoming events!

Ann Rockley - Customer Centric Content Management

Webinar Attendees also receive up to 15% off entry to the X-Pubs 2008 Conference in London, UK 

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Organizations have begun to invest in content management to improve productivity, increase content control, and manage content reuse. Yet these same organizations are forgetting about the customer, failing to improve the quality of the content and enhancing the user experience as they migrate to content management. Customers are still having difficulty finding the right content at the right time in the right format, and the cost of customer support is soaring.

Customer centric content management can not only improve productivity and reduce costs, but also improve the customer experience.

This session covers:

 » What is a customer centric content management strategy
 » The benefits of a customer centric content management strategy
 » The role of customer centric content management in:
      » Increased usability
      » Increased access and retrieval
      » Multichannel delivery
 » Guidelines for achieving effective customer centric content management

Date: Thursday, Apr 3, 2008

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM EDT
10:00am Eastern Time (ET, New York, USA)
7:00am Pacific Time (PT, Los Angeles, USA)
3:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, London, UK)

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Space is limited.

To gain the full potential that DITA can provide, a successful implementation is critical. Learn a proven approach in this one-hour on-demand seminar, sponsored by PTC & X-Pubs.
During this webcast, you will discover the changes you can expect while moving your organisation to DITA’s topic-based authoring model. You will also learn a step-by-step approach that will help ensure a smooth transition while enabling you to demonstrate the return on investment that you predicted in your business case.
Gain expert tips on how to:
» Make the transition easier for the people in your organization
» Manage the changes to your information-development lifecycle process
» Transform legacy content
» Increase collaboration in your work environment
The broadcast is available on-demand for you to download and view at your convenience.
Click here to download the webcast

Enterprise Content Management 365 (ecm365.com) is focussed on content management, document management and enterprise content management marketplaces in the UK, and thus has joined the X-Pubs XML Conference as an associate sponsor to provide more ways for the UK audience to learn about these business-changing technologies.  Subscribers to ECM365 can get 10% off entry to the X-Pubs 2007 XML Conference by contacting +44 208 722 8505 and mentioning ECM365. 
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XML content management presents changes that go far beyond technology.  In this interactive web-event, content management strategist Scott Abel interviewed Career and Performance Consultant Emma C. Hamer on one of the most critical issues of CMS success: Change Management. 

Every new technology project is put at risk by non-adoption by users, intermittent support by managers, and disconnected users, management, and technical teams.  This webinar discusses the business drivers and concerns from a corporate, employee, and client perspective and reviews proven strategies for changing the way organisations work. 

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