Vancouver BC May 6 - 9, 2008DocTrain WEST 2008

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DITA, DITA, DITA

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“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”

24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories

A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools

Beyond Authoring

Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody

Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite

Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication

Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User

Content Management Successes

DITA for Business Documents

DocBook vs. DITA

Document Engineering in User Experience Design

Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World

Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management

Extreme Content Makeover

From Novice to Geek

From Planning to Publishing

How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book

How Do You Grow Wiki Use?

Innovate, Collaborate, Create

Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator

MadCap Software

Making XML Technology Accessible

Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse

Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain

Meet the Bloggers

On the Road to Modular Training Content

Once Content is in XML. Now what?

Putting Everything Back Together Again

See Dynamic Publishing in Action!

Social Media 101

Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level

The Business of Experience

The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint

The Many-Armed Starfish

The Single Sourcing House

Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA

Understanding Component Content Management

Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management

Using DITA for Online Help

Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development

Velocity Translation Portal

What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash

When Words Are Not Enough

Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information

Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models

XML in the Wilderness

[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML

[Workshop] Adobe Captivate

[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7

[Workshop] Content Engineering

[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL

[Workshop] Introduction to XSL

[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data

[Workshop] Simplified Technical English

[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite

[Workshop] The Business of Experience Workshop

[Workshop] Writing for Reuse

Session Details

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation

Speaker: Todd O’Neill
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM   Date: May 8
Track: Training

Experience level: All levels
Room: Dundarave Room

It’s not enough to create a manual or job aid in today’s “instant media” environment. Today’s employees have grown up with and expect a rich media experience wherever they are. Your audience expects to be engaged and stimulated by the media they consume.

This session will explore how to keep the attention of the digital generation using video and audio. Topics covered will include:

  • Today’s media landscape
  • Effective production methods
  • Tools to create
  • Distribution technology
  • Peek at the future

After the session you will have the information you need to plan how you’ll use rich media for documentation and training purposes.