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Amazon CloudFront Offers Support For Dynamic Content

Amazon has announced that Amazon CloudFront now allows organizations to deliver personalized web content dynamically. Read the announcement. Check out the geeky details.

Migrating to DITA: How Automated Conversion Works and Why it Matters to You

by Patrick Baker, VP Development and Professional Services, Stilo International An unavoidable part of moving to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), or any other structured authoring system, is converting your existing content into the new format. Most organizations that make the move to structured writing have to make the change while still continuing to [...]

How Dynamic Publishing Can Make Your Customers Love You

by Noz Urbina, Senior Consultant, Trainer and Presales Manager for Mekon Ltd. Here’s the problem. Marketing and technical communication teams are overloaded. Faced with: Multiple delivery formats (print, web, online help, and now, myriad mobile formats) Increasing demand for translation Increasing demand for personalization and localization of content Shortening product release cycles with more product [...]

Cleaning Up eBook Conversion Messes: Tips For Success

By Mark Gross, with Devorah Bloom, DCL In my previous column, Understanding Content Conversion: Unfortunately, There’s No ‘Easy’ Button, I examined the various areas that trip up the eBook conversion process –special characters, tables, hyphenations, and so on.  This column follows on that theme, based on a question from a consultant with a major consulting firm: [...]

What is XML Really About?

by Mark Baker We all know that XML is a good thing. The pundits and the vendors all tell us so. XML opens up many possibilities for content. But exactly how (and why) it does so is not always made clear. Getting your content into XML is not, by itself, enough to deliver any or [...]