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This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of:

“Deploying and Maintaining a Large Single-Sourcing Solution: Now What?”

Presented by Todd Nowlan, a large Canadian Telecom

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. The video is posted as is. It has not been edited. You should go read Todd’s biography here. Every last bit is completely live.

Download the slides here and see the live-tweet roundup here. If you’re interested in more from Todd, he was a guest on the PubWright podcast available here or on iTunes.

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This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of:

“Return on Investment of a DITA Learning Specialization
—A Case Study“

Presented by Scott Youngblom, Oberon Technologies

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. The video is posted as is. It has not been edited. You should go read Scott’s biography here. Every last bit is completely live.

Download the slides.

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Update! Video and slides posted here.

Please join us online for our regular meeting:

“Deploying and Maintaining a Large Single-Sourcing Solution: Now What?”

Presented by Todd Nowlan, a large Canadian Telecom

Date: Saturday, 28 August 2010, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location: Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Registration Web Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/987710090

Topic

Your organization has gone through the pains of developing business cases and acquiring funds to implement a single-sourcing solution. How do you proceed with choosing and implementing a solution, what are the steps you need to take to deploy the system, what are the critical success factors and pitfalls you need to consider? Once you’ve deployed your solution, what is it that you need to do to maintain the system, how do you handle the inevitable mountain of requests coming from all stakeholders to improve and extend capabilties?

This session will outline some of the key items to consider and plan for in each phase of a single-sourcing solution’s lifecycle based upon a high-tech company’s experience and learnings. The presentation will take you through some of the approaches they found to be effective for implementing and managing their combined Arbortext PE/DLM and Documentum system.

About the Speaker

Todd Nowlan is currently IT Project Manager responsible for maintaining and supporting the documentation and training CMSs for a large telecom equipment provider. Todd has more than 16 years experience with the methods and toolsets associated with structured authoring, XML authoring, and content management. He has held various technical and management roles supporting small and large user communities, including experience developing XML business cases, deriving technical requirements, testing, and deploying processes and systems.

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the GoToMeeting invite. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.

Update: The video has been posted here.

Please join us online for our next meeting:

“Return on Investment of a DITA Learning Specialization
—A Case Study“

Presented by Scott Youngblom, Oberon Technologies

Date: Saturday, 22 May 2010, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location: Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Registration Web Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/358978618

Topic

This presentation details the cost savings and additional revenue generation provided to a customer by implementing a DITA-based Learning specialization. It also explains the improvements and expansion of the product offerings to the customer.

This case study includes:

• A discussion of the initial challenges the customer faced, including how to justify the project costs in these tough economic times
• How implementing a DITA-based Learning specialization helped them to overcome these challenges and automate a number of prior manual processes providing a faster time to market for their products while saving costs
• How they were able to supply their consumers with more consistent, accurate and timely information
• How the DITA architecture has allowed them to keep the printed content and Web content synchronized and expanded their capability to provide additional, more personalized product offerings, thereby increasing their revenue projections

About the Speaker

Scott Youngblom is a co-founder of Oberon Technologies, a leading provider of automated publishing IT solutions based on XML and SGML. With a degree in Communications and Business, Scott has an information technology career spanning over 23 years, with over 13 of them specifically involved with automated publishing solutions. Having started out as a programmer with EDS (Electronic Data Systems) in his early career, Scott has taken his technical background; along with his knowledge of various “best-of-breed” software publishing technologies, and applied them to Fortune 2000 organizations in support of meeting specific business requirements such as increasing company revenue, decreasing expenses to improve company margins, or meeting regulatory compliance and quality standards. Prior to starting Oberon Technologies, Scott worked 12 years at Arbortext (now PTC).

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the GoToMeeting invite. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.