What is Dynamic Publishing, Anyway?

It would seem a straightforward assignment: defining the term — dynamic publishing — that is the primary focus of this online publication. But, as I quickly discovered in my quest to help establish a common vocabulary, my task was far more complicated than I originally realized. As it turns out, there are subtle variations in [...]

Introducing TheDynamicPublisher.com Version 2.0

by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler It’s hard to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format and language, increasingly, on a menagerie of mobile devices that seem to pop up faster than daisies after a good rain — especially if you rely on traditional publishing techniques. [...]

Digital Omnivores Create Demand for Cross-platform Strategies

If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s that the desire for digital content consumption is not a fad; it’s here to stay. comScore recently studied the effect of the increased demand for digital content in a white paper they released titled Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media [...]

Moving From A Proprietary XML Environment To DITA

By JoAnn T. Hackos, President, Comtech Services, Inc. and Director, The Center for Information-Development Management The information-development world embraced desktop publishing in the mid-1980s with great enthusiasm. Desktop publishing software and laser printers gave us the ability to make documents more readable and easier to navigate. We were able to bypass the costs of typesetting [...]

Take the App Opportunity: Design for Tablets

In the publishing world the term on everyone’s lips is “digital publishing.” It describes publishing to new devices such as the iPad, Android tablets, and other mobile devices, and although we are thinking and talking about digital publishing, I have noticed that a lot of designers are not sure how to publish to these new [...]

Is dynamic publishing a fit for my business strategy?

I recently wrote about the characteristics that make an application suitable for dynamic publishing, but I realized later that these characteristics were just demographics — I had not touched on how you know if dynamic publishing is a good fit for your business strategy and, if so, how you can show your executives why they [...]