Hyperviews Online

A DITA collaboration solution is available for SharePoint 2007 Server, DITA Exchange. The DITA Exchange Product Fact Sheet is available: http://194.192.14.222/_layouts/dx/DxPublic/dx/DxFactSheet-2007-04.pdf

UC Davis has a web content management initiative, and did a survey on CMS use in universities. The project web site is at http://cms.ucdavis.edu/index.html

The University Web Developers mailing list (http://www.usask.ca/web_project/uwebd/) is reported to have discussions on use of content management systems.

If you’re in need of comprehensive information about today’s content management systems, try these sources:

http://www.cmswatch.com/ (offering a report comparing nearly 30 systems, both open source and commercial enterprise systems)

http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (listing available systems)

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix (providing comparisons)

Enterprise systems currently in use include:

• Vignette - V7 Content Management
• Documentum (EMC) and Documentum Web Publisher
• IBM - Workplace WCM
• RedDot (Open Text)  and RedDot CMS
• Interwoven - TeamSite
• Oracle - Stellent Web Content Management

Online SIG Education Lead Tom Johnson has published articles on using WordPress as a CMS and providing other tips too.

Tom explains WordPress plugins here: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/17/wordpress-plugins-extending-your-blogs-features-and-capabilities/

Tom’s post on how to use WordPress as a CMS is published at http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/07/01/converting-your-wordpress-blog-into-a-cms-content-management-system/

Tom gave a presentation on WordPress that is posted here: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/doctrain

In a message to STC leaders who use WordPress for chapter and SIG sites, Tom also recommends the WordPres podcast: http://wordpresspodcast.org

If you’re responsible for building an online community in a company or organization, you may find Online Community Report a useful resource: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/ as well as this page by Amy Jo Kim: http://www.naima.com/community/

Additional resources include Nancy White’s site: http://www.fullcirc.com and Howard Rheingold’s Cooperation Commons: http://www.cooperationcommons.org/

There is also an email list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/

There are two discussion lists useful to members with an interest in indexing.

INDEX-L is a mailing list created to promote good indexing practices.  For information on how to subscribe visit http://indexpup.com/index-list/faq.html.

Indexers’ Discussion List is open to all who are interested in indexing regardless of skill level. Subscribe through Yahoo Groups at indexersdiscussionlist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. 

Part of the charter of the Online SIG is using content management to organize and present STC information. Hyperviews Online is published using an open source content management system, WordPress. We have published and linked to articles on content management, and we continually gather resources on the subject. Web resources are listed here, including web sites and web glossaries, magazines, and resource lists. (more…)

These tools are said to be able to represent, graphically, the nesting of levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file:

TIBCO’s TurboXML shows the structure tree and can ceate example XML files

XML Spy, but you may have to turn the DTD into a schema first.

LiveDTD provides easy navigation among the various DTD components via hyperlink. but not visualization

 

Online SIG Education Lead Tom Johnson is aggregating podcasts on the STC Suncoast Chapter site: http://www.stc-suncoast.org/podcastfeed Included are many podcasts by technical communicators, and podcasts from the Four Lakes chatper of STC.

Books:

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, & Playtesting Games.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578202221/

Chris Crawford on Game Design
http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Crawford-Game-Design/dp/0131460994/

Web site, collection of information on game design patterns:
http://www.gamedesignpatterns.org/

These sites continually publish news about online communication:

http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.basement.org
http://www.thinkvitamin.com
http://www.digital-web.com
http://www.techcrunch.com
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/
http://radar.oreilly.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/
http://blog.webreakstuff.com/
http://ajaxian.com
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/
http://digg.com/view/technology
http://www.37signals.com/svn/
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
http://www.informit.com

More are listed in this earlier post.

An overview of XHTML for mobile devices is available: http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/design/xhtmlinfo/ The site has a variety of other resources on mobile devices also,

http://www.horton.com/html/elexampleslist.aspx?ExampleID=13

http://www.elearningguild.com (journal articles, members only)

http://www.alleni.com (case studies and demos; register for the demos)

Online SIG Education Lead Tom Johnson is aggregating technical writing blogs on the Suncoast chapter website:  http://stc-suncoast.org/blogs

The site http://www.htmlgoodies.com/, maintained by Joe Burns, provides resources and links to additional ones including a forum on web design.