November 19, 2012 @ 12:05 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
Our November 19th webinar with Dr. JoAnn Hackos of The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) covered an insightful strategy in determining how to accurate predict cost savings with DITA. This issue has been a key “bug-a-boo” with many customers, who know that they need to move to DITA, but who need a compelling business case read more…
November 16, 2012 @ 12:15 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
We have a recording of an incredibly dynamic webinar from November 16 that is a “must see.” VASONT and Publishing Smarter joined forces to find a uniquely visual way to cover the many issues and potential barriers that may arise when you decide to migrate to structure authoring. You may view “Structured authoring: getting from read more…
November 15, 2012 @ 12:13 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
Our November 9th blog on “3 Key Webinar Recordings to Help set your strategy for 2013” made reference to our recording of a November webinar with Joe Welinske, which focused on how to use on placeholder (UDV) for multiple device gestures when single-source publishing to multiple screens. Specifically, you may have documentation for an app, read more…
November 9, 2012 @ 4:44 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
[Updated Blog: webinar recording links and additional information added] — Our goal at Adobe Tech Comm is not only to provide meaningful “how to” demos on our product line, but also to share vision and strategy from experienced thought leaders and practitioners from our field. In the month of November, we had 3 especially interesting read more…
November 8, 2012 @ 3:39 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
Adobe Tech Comm recently hosted visionary content strategist Joe Gollner on the topic of “Content Strategies for the Real World.” This blog summarizes key concepts covered in the webinar. You may view a recording of the entire webinar by clicking here. Joe started his discussion with his definition of “The Intelligent Content Imperative”: A Global read more…
October 31, 2012 @ 10:28 AM, By Parth Mukherjee
Adobe along with several of our local partners were recently at the TEKOM conference 2012 organized by TCWorld. TEKOM is the largest annual event in the technical communication industry and we celebrated that with a large 50 msq booth that was resplendent in black and red. Visitors stopped by for interesting product demonstrations in German and English languages read more…
October 24, 2012 @ 12:30 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
User assistance thought pioneer, Joe Welinske, has authored a valuable White Paper that addresses an important issue: how to use a flexible interaction language scheme with User Defined Variables. This blog touches on key concepts contained in the White Paper; you may download the White Paper “Interactions with User Defined Variables” by clicking here. Adobe read more…
October 23, 2012 @ 12:29 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
This week a smaller, leaner, meaner iPad was introduced by Apple, increasing the number and type of tablet or mobile devices that we must all eventually publish to. The challenges can seem daunting at first. Fortunately, seasoned user-assistance thought pioneer, Joe Welinske, has authored a highly useful White Paper. You may download and review “Multiscreen read more…
October 22, 2012 @ 4:32 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann
Last week Adobe participated in the Localization World conference on the edge of Seattle’s busy harbor. Passing ferrry boats and container ships were unable to divert the attendees attention from dozens of relevant and compelling presentations on the latest challenges facing anyone who wants to make their content go global. Although the conference’s focus was read more…
October 22, 2012 @ 12:38 PM, By Parth Mukherjee
Firstly, a big “Thank you!” to all those who participated in the contest. Several people wrote on our Facebook wall requesting we share the solutions to all the puzzles. So here goes: The contest blog explained that our technical writer, Tina, had disappeared and had left 10 techcomm puzzles on her computer that would lead read more…