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Bob Doyle has founded another content management community specializing in the new Darwin Information Typing Architecture standard.
DITA is the fastest path to XML-based component content management.
A DITA editor and the DITA Open Toolkit form a complete end-to-end content publishing system.
Bob has launched six new websites in support of DITA, starting with a members organization modeled on CM Pros.
DITA Users - members pay $100/year for access to a workspace folder, a web-based editor, and a server-based version of the DITA Open Toolkit that allows them to author and build DITA files, then publish them to multiple outputs including web (HTML), print (PDF), and Online Help.
DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers.
DITA Infocenter - a searchable knowledge base of specifications for DITA Users.
DITA News - a mailing list, blog aggregation, and a DITA newsletter.
DITA Tutor - self-paced and instructor-led tutorials and workshops.
DITA Wiki - resources with comments and discussions for DITA Users.
Did you miss the 2006 Spring Summit?
CM Pro Tom Godfrey blogged on the Spring Summit and we adapted his notes.
"What a day. It was a relatively small group that attended, but the seminars, round tables and networking have been invaluable."
"The overriding theme of the conference is to discuss the importance of the customer experience and content management. Involving the customer, and concerning oneself with the customer experience is not really native to many content management initiatives. Typically a group is assembled and decisions are made concerning pushing content to customers, and the customer is often not included in the process - until delivery time."
Read Tom's blog report on the Summit page and view more photos
CM Professionals was founded to provide an organization that enables members to focus on the practitioner aspect of content management. If we look ahead to the time when content management is a chosen profession with a defined curriculum of study, what will it be? Ann Rockley's session at the Spring Summit looked at content management as a profession and identified some potential areas of focus and study.
Read Ann's presentation (PDF, 142KB)
View the draft content management skills matrix (PDF, 41KB)
