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Presented by Emma Hamer - Founding Principal and Senior Consultant, eHamerAssociates Ltd

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In this 60-minute interactive whirlwind presentation, Emma will look at the common fears around moving from unstructured to structured content, (and needing to learn about DITA and XML – which frightens many people more than they’ll admit to).

Emma will explore some similes and metaphors that will help us understand the impact of these new methods and technologies on our way of working. Along the way, she will look at the root causes of resistance to change, and help break through self-imposed limitations, by reframing the challenge of change, and focusing on long-term benefits.

Date:  29 April 2009
Time:  15:00 UK Time
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

In this webinar you will learn:

• to look at your situation from a different perspective
• tools and techniques to recognize emotional responses to change and their root causes
• simple strategies to help yourself and your staff and colleagues through the transition to a new way of working
• how to use narrative and dialogue to surface hidden tensions and fears and deal with them honestly and openly



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Presented by Mark Poston - Senior Technical Consultant, Mekon Ltd

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Come and hear a real example of how deploying DITA tools to enterprise users is not only possible, but can greatly improve the efficiency of your business.   For years organisations have wanted to get Subject Matter Experts creating Business Documentation in XML so that it can be single-sourced and reused in various scenarios.  DITA XML has proven usable, practical and effective where traditional XML has struggled to gain ground.

This case study is for anyone involved in the process of creation, publishing and delivering of different types of business document by non technical and distributed authors.  Mark will explain how the solution allows editors to manage each report from creation, management of copyright permissions, to final publication to print and digital distribution, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. 

Mark will discuss the scalable solution adopted by Key Note Ltd., a leading market research company in the UK, who wanted to improve their efficiency by moving to an XML-based editorial system.  Authors and editors are supplied with a familiar and easy to use Word environment for authoring XML content. They have the ability to dynamically render charts, import tables from Microsoft Excel, and create outputs in a number of formats.

Date:  02 April 2009
Time:  15:00 UK Time
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

In this complimentary Webinar you will learn how through the use of dynamic XML technologies you can improve efficiencies in:

• Enable efficient multi-format, multi channel delivery
• Implement XML without scaring off business users
• Demonstrate return on investment
• Use the latest structured data standards and schemas
• Manage granular content and promote re-use
• Integrate purpose built XML data repositories with existing applications
• Reduce the time to market and improve quality

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Join us online March 25, 2009

Presented by Michael Boses - Director of XML Products

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Can DITA work outside Tech Pubs?

Are our business documents obsolete? Many business thinkers say that the document, as we know it, has out-lived its usefulness. A new type of intelligent document is needed to support automated business processes, enable dynamic multi-channel publishing, and make the most of important intellectual property. Most people understand that XML is a key to creating this type of intelligent document infrastructure, but very few organizations have been able to come up with an enterprise approach to XML authoring that meets the needs of both the end-user and the enterprise. 

Few standards have gained adoption as rapidly as DITA has in the technical publications market. The reason is simple: DITA works! Well, this success has caught the attention of other departments outside of technical publications, who are wondering if DITA can answer their needs for a enterprise model for business documents.

DITA is an ideal candidate to unify enterprise business content, since DITA is an open standard designed to be specialized for the needs of individual departments. What’s more, an OASIS subcommittee has been established to make recommendations that optimize DITAs value for Enterprise Business Documents.

Date:  25 March 2009
Time:  15:00 GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

In this complimentary Webinar you will learn:

• The benefits of intelligent business documents
• The reasons why DITA is gaining so much attention in this area
• Practical applications of user-friendly authoring of business documents with DITA.
   

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Introduction to DITA

Presented by Noz Urbina, Business Development Manager, Mekon

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Still not clear on those 4 little letters:
D - I - T - A?

Come and join Noz Urbina to get a friendly introduction to the DITA.  This informative and up to date session will introduce you to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), the fastest growing XML standard ever.  DITA lowers barriers to single-sourcing and content management by delivering information typing and component strategies out of the box, with various templates and style sheets that need only to be customised.

DITA is an information architecture that presents a powerful solution for information developers, that is simple enough to use in various scenarios. It is meant for those who need to implement structured documentation, including writers, editors, information architects, and their managers.  This beginners session will cover the basics of creating DITA topics, assembling topics using maps, creating relationship tables, and delivering it all to various media.

Date:  Tuesday February 24, 2009
Time:  3:00pm GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

In this complimentary Webinar you will learn to:

» Build a business case for moving to DITA.
» Apply DITA concepts and working practices.
» Anticipate pitfalls in a DITA roll-out. 
» Understand the purpose of DITA maps and how to create them.
» Create DITA relationship tables.
» Understand the role of DITA Specialisation.

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Come and join Matthew Ellison to learn about single source publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp and FrameMaker. This informative and up to date workshop looks at how this software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators, saving time and reducing costs.

This complimentary Webinar will:

» Show the capability of Captivate to create Software simulations, demonstrations and random training questionnaires.
» Show Branching capabilities to customise the routing, depending on the experience of the user.
» Show the different output methods within Captivate.
» Show import into FM and create a PDF to demonstrate the use of Captivate (swf) files in paper publications.
» Show Import into RH to show the functionality within Webhelp.

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Join us online January 20 for: Single Source Publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp & FrameMaker

Presented by X-Pubs and Adobe feat. Matthew Ellison, User Assistance and eLearning Professional

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Come and join Matthew Ellison to learn about single source publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp and FrameMaker. This informative and up to date workshop looks at how this software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators, saving time and reducing costs.

Topic: Single Source Publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp & FrameMaker
Date:  Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Time:  3:00pm GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

This complimentary Webinar will:

» Show the capability of Captivate to create Software simulations, demonstrations and random training questionnaires.
» Show Branching capabilities to customise the routing, depending on the experience of the user.
» Show the different output methods within Captivate.
» Show import into FM and create a PDF to demonstrate the use of Captivate (swf) files in paper publications.
» Show Import into RH to show the functionality within Webhelp.

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Feedback from the last session:

“I found it very informative, especially on the translation features and integration of captivate demos into robohelp”
“I found the webinar very informative and the whole package impressive”

17:23:50Join us for a Webinar on December 17th

Topic:  Single Source Publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp & FrameMaker 
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Time: 3:00pm GMT 
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free

Presenter: Matthew Ellison, User Assistance and elearning Professional

Come and join Matthew Ellison to learn about single source publishing of Captivate into RoboHelp and Framemaker.  This informative and up to date workshop looks at how this software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators, saving time and reducing costs.

Join us in this complimentary Webinar and learn how to:

• Show the capability of Captivate to create Software simulations, demonstrations and random training questionnaires.
• Show Branching capabilities to customise the routing, depending on the experience of the user. 
• Show the different output methods within Captivate. 
• Import into FM and create a PDF to demonstrate the use of Captivate (swf) files in paper publications. 
• Import into RH to show the functionality within Webhelp.

email georgina.johnson[at]x-pubs.com for joining information.

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.

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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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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.
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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 and XML Publishing - Find out how it’s done

In anticipation of Rockley Group’s Participation in the X-Pubs 2007 we’re happy to present this online event:

Ann Rockley - XML Publishing Across the Enterprise

Webinar Attendees also receive 20% off entry to the X-Pubs 2007 Conference in Reading, UK

About Ann Rockley
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XML Content Management and XML Publishing is making strong inroads into technical publishing, but more and more organizations are looking to XML and component-based content management and publishing to support customer-facing content including web sites, global content, and marketing, training and self-serve materials. 
This webinar:
-      Introduces the concepts of content component management (CCM)
-      Explains the role of XML in CCM and multi-channel publishing
-      Outlines the benefits and significant ROI that can be realized
-      Provides guidelines for designing effective component-based content
-      Provides best practices on how to develop a realistic reuse strategy
-      Provides guidelines for how to introduce the change
Numerous real-world examples of XML publishing and content component management across the enterprise will be presented.
Date:  Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Time:  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
11:00am Eastern Time (ET, New York, USA)
8:00am Pacific Time (PT, Los Angeles, USA)
4:00pm Greenwich Mean Time(GMT, London, UK)
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Macintosh®-based attendees
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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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