Document Engineering: A Logical Career Move For Some Business Content Pros

December 15, 2008 Blog 3 Comments

By Lisa Woods, Senior Collaboration Consultant at Allegient It’s exciting when the state-of-the art in several disciplines gives rise to a brand new one. And it’s thrilling to watch someone extrapolate concepts from one arena to another in a way that makes connections jump out as if they were obvious all along. It’s like magic. Authors Robert Glushko and Tim McGrath perform such a conjuring feat in their new book, “Document Engineering; Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services”. This practical guide synergizes old ideas about software Read the full article…

Call for Presenters: Intelligent Content 2009

September 18, 2008 Blog No Comments

. Intelligent Content 2009 has announced a call for presenters. The event, to be held January 29-30, 2009 at Le Parker Méridien Palm Springs, needs presenters who are creating, managing, and delivering intelligent content and who can present on such topics as: Adaptive content Content mining

The Wisdom of Crowds Meets the Wisdom of Authors: How XML Enables the Semantic Web

July 31, 2008 Blog No Comments

Paul Wlodarczyk, JustSystems I recently attended the first-ever Linked Data Planet conference, where a number of pioneers in the field of Semantic Web shared their perspectives on the state of the art — and business — of helping the world tag their web pages for meaning. So what is the Semantic Web and how is it different from the web of today? On the web, most search engines today use key words and the number of links to a page to determine the relevance of search results. This is the Read the full article…

Bloggers Review DocTrain West 2008

May 16, 2008 Blog 1 Comment

If you missed Documentation and Training West 2008 in Vancouver, BC May 6-9, you missed quite a show. “An excellent conference,” writes Richard Alexander on his blog, Managing Technical Documentation. Dick provides detailed reviews of the sessions he attended and share his opinion of the conference overall. Sarah O’Keefe shares a great set of notes about various sessions she attended at the event on her blog, Palimpsest, in addition to details of her travel misadventures. Scott Nesbitt and Aaron Davis posted a variety of commentary about the conference sessions they Read the full article…

Slide Decks From Documentation and Training West Now Online

May 9, 2008 Blog No Comments

If you missed DocTrain West in Vancouver this week, you may find a quick trip to the event website worth your time. We’ve published the majority of the slide decks (and a handout or two) for your convenience. You can view, share, and download the slide decks from with your web browser. You can also easily reuse them on your site or blog.

Enabling Information Sharing Integrity

April 21, 2008 Blog No Comments

By Jake Sorofman, JustSystems In industries where data constantly changes, working with out-of-date information can carry a very high price. Yet financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, and other companies risk paying that price every time they use static documents as the basis for delivering and collaborating around information that is subject to constant change. The data in these static documents becomes stale as soon as the documents are published, giving recipients a snapshot in time rather than a current view of business. Most companies accept the rapid obsolescence of their Read the full article…

[Profile] Bob Glushko Educates Future Knowledge Workers About Document Engineering

April 18, 2008 Blog No Comments

When most people set retirement as a goal, they cite reasons such as having more time to play golf or commandeer the TV remote control. When Bob Glushko talks about retirement, it’s about teaching only one semester so his schedule has enough flexibility to do other work—in law school clinics, in public interest law, on the board of OASIS, and in the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation, which sponsors the annual David E. Rumelhart Prize, essentially the equivalent of a Nobel prize for cognitive sciences. Oh, and maybe Read the full article…

iPaper: Simply The Best Document Viewing Experience On The Web

February 25, 2008 Blog No Comments

It’s been called “the best document viewing experience on the web” and so far, it is…by a long shot. It’s iPaper, a new web display mechanism from Scribd for documents that was not, despite the “i” prefix, created by Apple. Like a YouTube video, iPaper documents are

The Document as Application: The Convergence of Document Publishing and Application Development

January 22, 2008 Blog 1 Comment

By Jake Sorofman, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, North America and EMEA JustSystems The worlds of document publishing and application development are converging. Traditionally, publishing processes focused on static documents in print, PDF, HTML, and other formats. While the Web introduced rich media formats, this only provided a more compelling multidimensional rendering of static information. The reality is that business depends on dynamic data, and static documents only provide a snapshot in time. Users who need the most current information possible must go to the source – the business Read the full article…

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

November 8, 2007 Blog No Comments

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service is made possible by SlideShare.net, a site that’s a lot like YouTube for slide shows. Slide shows available today include: Achieve Dynamic Publishing with DITA and CMS Adoption: Astoria On Demand Adobe in Technical Communication and Instructional Design Avoiding the Content Conveyor Belt Trap: Enabling Read the full article…

Documentation and Training East: Moving Your Career Forward (October 16-19, 2007)

April 23, 2007 Blog No Comments

Held in the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, Lowell, Massachusetts (a quick shuttle ride from Boston’s Logan International Airport), the theme of the 8th Bi-Annual Documentation & Training Conference is Advancing Your Career. No, you won’t see any resume writing or online portfolio workshops at this event. And no, they’ll be no advanced Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks classes either. Instead, you’ll be exposed to new tools, technologies, and standards that can help you improve your value as a communication professional. And, you’ll be challenged to think differently about Read the full article…

Documentation and Training Conference Brings The User Experience To Vancouver

December 30, 2006 Blog 1 Comment

TheContentWrangler.com and PubsNet present the first west coast Documentation and Training Conference this April 18-21, 2007 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme of the event is The User Experience and will feature 30 presentations and workshops in four topic-focused tracks including: Tools and Technologies, Content Design and Access, Content Development, and Content Management. Five free workshops – NO extra charges! Documentation and Training offers extra value to attendees. The cost of registration includes free access to two of our five half-day workshops, each delivered by experienced industry experts and Read the full article…

Tech Writers: Are You A Future Document Engineer?

July 29, 2006 Blog No Comments

In “Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services”, Robert Glushko and Tim McGrath write, “Practitioners of document engineering will most likely come from other disciplines from which document engineering was synthesized. The principles of document engineering seek to find a balance between technology and business, between process and information, between bottom-up and top-down thinking, and between concepts and implementation. Successful documents engineers,” the authors say, “will do the same.” Read my recent book review in the July 2006 The Rockley Bulletin. Then, put on your Read the full article…