User Generated Content – an Evolution in Social Learning

As social learning continues to rapidly take hold, organizations are witnessing a new normal, where the definition of competence shifts from simply applying knowledge and skills to continually acquiring and adapting knowledge and skills. As a result, social networks will soon be the de-facto performance support platform, and the venue of choice for many learners seeking flexible access to targeted information at or near the point of need. This white paper explores the impact of this change in the nature of social learning, and on learning organizations.

An XML Document Standards Interoperability Framework

Presentation from DITA West, October 2007.

Designing Flexible XML Information Objects

Dynamic Content Delivery Using DITA

This whitepaper defines a new publishing paradigm, which we will call dynamic content delivery. Dynamic delivery changes the rules, putting the reader in charge. It transforms publishing to an audience of many to publishing to an audience of one.

Integrating XML Publishing with a CMS

How and when should XML be integrated with a Content Management System (CMS)? What are the best practices for performing this integration? And how do you avoid the “gotchas” that others have experienced along the way?

Leveraging Flight Operations Content with Dynamic Publishing

In this paper we describe how a dynamic content delivery platform can significantly reduce the cost and complexity of managing flight operations content.

The Future of DITA

DITA is the hottest new technology in the technical publishing market. It it has the potential to become the standard not only for technical publishing, but for all serious content management and dynamic publishing applications.

The Interoperability Framework for DocBook, DITA, ODF and More

The use of multiple standards makes it difficult to share and reuse content between applications and across enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues surrounding interoperability and suggest an answer.

Why Companies are Outgrowing Desktop Publishing

Desktop publishing is being replaced by enterprise publishing. This whitepaper examines how XML provides the key to effective enterprise publishing.

XML and Office 2.0

A summary of “Office 2.0” – another offshoot of the term “Web 2.0” – in which all traditional office applications can be replaced by online services accessible through a generic web browser.

XML Compression: Optimizing Performance of XML Applications

Flatirons Solutions suggests ways to apply XML compression techniques that will result in improved application performance.

XML for Creative Content

This whitepaper demonstrates how XML tools can be used to maintain highly graphical sales collateral, web pages, and product catalogs from a single source of XML information.

Cloud Computing - De-Mystifying the Cloud

Cloud Computing is clearly the latest industry buzz word. With the amount of hype, one would expect to find plenty of technical information to support the claims, but nothing could be farther from the truth. This paper attempts to objectively demystify “Cloud Computing”, explore some of the related claims and provide an objective, non-vendor viewpoint on Cloud risks and opportunities.