On Tuesday, June 24th, at 11am EDT, please join Alan Houser, co-founder and president of Group Wellesley, Inc., former president of the Society for Technical Communication as he presents the FrameMaker to CCMS webinar, sponsored by DocZone. 

Alan is a distinguished consultant and trainer in the fields of XML, XML technologies, publishing workflows, and authoring and publishing tools. Christopher Hill, V.P. Product Management at RSI Content Solutions, (makers of DocZone CCMS) will be conducting the interview.

They will discuss questions such as: 

Publishers today are under increasing pressure to meet shorter time to market demands, build more products through content reuse, and automate the entire lifecycle of content development. HarperCollins has embarked on a transformation project to meet their long-term publishing strategy.

Mike McGinniss, Senior Vice President, Publishing Services from HarperCollins Publishers and Denis Wilson, Editor-in-Chief of Book Business will discuss:

• Pros and cons of transformation projects
• Lessons learned from executing cross-organization and cross-functional projects
• Best practices for meeting aggressive timelines

Whether you are just starting a digital publishing transformation project or plan on embarking on a project, you won’t want to miss attending this webinar.

You're invited to see how The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), based in London, is using RSuite to manage their books, journals, standards content, and ONIX metadata.

Please join us at 11 AM EDT on Thursday, April 3rd for a joint webinar.

RSuite CMS is the leading content management system for publishers and media companies and has been the publishing solution for The IET since 2012. IET is a world leading professional organisation sharing and advancing knowledge to promote science, engineering and technology across the world. IET has more than 150,000 members worldwide in 127 countries.

We look forward to seeing you at the webinar!

Back in September, DocZone DITA exhibited at the CIDM Best Practices Showcase in Savannah, Georgia. We spoke with many of you about your DITA Open Toolkit wants and needs, we spoke with many of you about how you're personally using these capabilities.

Because there is a such a growing need for DITA Open Toolkit plugins in the technical publishing environment, we have scheduled a webinar to inform you on the capabilities that DocZone has to offer.

Attend our DocZone DITA webinar and witness:

• How DocZone DITA incorporates DITA OTK plugins 
• XTM capabilities that translate content in more than 250 languages 
• How simple it is for DocZone to publish to multiple formats with the click of a button 
• ...and so much more 

We're excited to introduce DocZone DITA's OTK plugin and other capabilities to you. Register for the webinar on October 24 webinar today!

Stresses on the educational publishing industry are profound. While the challenges of core curriculum requirements and state mandates have been part of the equation for many years, new expectations are adding to the pressures:

• Textbook pricing
• Flash-to-HTML5 conversion
• Exponential increase in asset management
• iBooks 2

All these factors have escalated the need to manage and organize content in a structured and strategic manner.

On April 25 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, join Chad Crume, director of content systems at Macmillan Higher Education and  David Saracco, vice president of business development at RSI Content Solutions as they discuss the evolving educational publishing landscape and explore how a strategic approach to content management can serve educational publishers now and into the future. Eliot Kimber, senior solutions architect will also join the conversation as he details how his open source DITA for Publishers project streamlines content transformation and ebook production.

WEBINAR: Challenges of Educational Publishing and How Content Management Can Help 

An Interview With Chad Crume, Director of Content Systems at Macmillan Higher Education | Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:00  - 3:00 EDT

John Corkery and Michael Edson from DETI Group will be the panelists for our February 20 webinar entitled, Truth of Digital Content Transformation and Conversion. This webinar will be an hour long and will begin at 1:00pm.

Revenue from digital products is set to soar in 2013. A recent study from Pew Internet & American Life Project states that one-third of the US population 16 and older now owns an e-reader. Ownership of tablets and e-reading devices has grown from 18% in late 2011 to 33% in late 2012. For the publishing industry this means a sustainable strategy to support digital and print products is the only option. It’s imperative for publishers to support a workflow that automates content transformation to digital formats for all titles moving forward and develop consistent plans for conversion projects to better monetize backlist titles.

Join publishing consultants Mike Edson and John Corkery from DETI Group in this free webinar. Mike and John will present strategies they’ve helped publishers implement to ensure that an epub strategy is an ongoing success that meets customers’ expectations while increasing publishers’ bottom line. They will separate fact from fiction and answer all your questions around epub, ebook formats, content conversion, XML, and more.

Webinar: Wednesday, October 24, 2012

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

The premise of all publishing organizations is to provide quality content in a format that customers desire. Ask any copy editor about house style and you can anticipate a lengthy and thoughtful response. Authors too expect nothing but perfection when transforming intellectual property into a print or digital product. So how do successful publishing organizations blend automation into workflows without sacrificing quality? In this webinar, we’ll reveal some interesting truths around quality control and provide tips that you can bring back to your office.

Join panelists Mike Edson and John Corkery from the DETI Group.

Register here

While using internal resources to develop a homegrown content management tool or convert your backlist to XML sounds like a cost-effective approach, the reality is that most IT projects fail. Focussing internal IT resources on experimenting with new technologies and applications (R&D), vendor selection, and vendor management is the trend most publishers are following. Capitalizing on external resources can increase time to market, offer scalability and expertise, provide consistency and quality, and ultimately improve your ROI.

Join RSI Content Solutions and Data Conversion Laboratory for the latest webinar in the Reality Check Series:

Truth About DIY CMS and Content Conversion
featuring Pat Sabosik, Elm City Consulting
August 29, 2012 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Register here

Leading publishing consultant, Pat Sabosik, leads this conversation and will discuss

• Life cycles and leveraging investments
• Evolution of content use and complexity
• ROI and profitability

She'll provide concrete examples from STM and educational publishers that detail how content management and XML are the building blocks for the next generation of content and how vendor selection and alignment is a good use of corporate IT resources vs DIY when it comes to content conversion and content management.

Strategic content management and an XML-based workflow helps your organization capitalize on the boundless opportunities of tablet, e-reader, content aggregator, and smartphone markets.

Register now for NAPCO's free webinar "Build Your Bottom Line With Strategic Content Management" on Thursday, July 12 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00a.m. PT.

Come to this session armed with your questions for Bill Kasdorf, Vice President/Principal Consultant, Apex Content Solutions; John Shaw, Executive Director, Publishing Technologies, SAGE Publications; Anthony Allen, Digital Architect, ASTD; and Brian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Book Business. You'll be able to submit questions directly to our panelists for a live Q&A session during the hour.

These panelists have taken the plunge and are reaping the dividends from their strategic CMS investment. They'll show you how to:

• Quickly, efficiently deliver content to practically any platform
• Reduce your time-to-market on ancillary and derivative products
• Foster content experiments with big payoff
• Manage metadata for enhanced searchability and revenue
• Tip the revenue scale from print to digital and increase your sales options

How do you create and manage content that's ready for print, web, mobile, tablets, and future publishing channels?

The source is the solution!

The PRISM Source Vocabulary (PSV) is a standard framework for encoding digital content and configuring content management and digital asset management systems to produce future-ready content.

The latest vocabulary from IDEAlliance's nextPub initiative will be discussed tomorrow during a free webinar from RSI Content Solutions and Data Conversion Laboratory.

Come hear Dianne Kennedy, vice president of emerging technologies for IDEAlliance, share her thoughts on opportunities to advance automation for publishing systems where there has been little if any automation to date. She'll discuss where roadblocks exist, what opportunities are out there, and what role standards play in all this.

We'll also be introduced to the PRISM Source Vocabulary and learn how design-based publications can begin to and should take advantage of automation with standards, tools, and technologies available today.

Reality Check: The Truth About Automation

May 9 | 1:00 to 2:00 EDT

Presenter: Dianne Kennedy, VP of Emerging Technology at IDEAlliance