{"id":6561,"date":"2012-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2012\/10\/14\/content-strategy-at-adobe-day-lavacon-and-localization-world-2012\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:03:40","slug":"content-strategy-at-adobe-day-lavacon-and-localization-world-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2012\/10\/14\/content-strategy-at-adobe-day-lavacon-and-localization-world-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Strategy at Adobe Day &#8211; Lavacon and Localization World 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to attend Adobe&#8217;s preconference workshop &#8220;Adobe Day&#8221; at the Lavacon Content Strategy conference in Portland, Oregon last week. For a list of speakers, thought leaders and attendees, please check out Adobe Day at Lavacon.<\/p>\n<p>The theme was accurately summarized as &#8220;The future of TechComm is no longer in the future&#8221;, and the half day workshop included discussions on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Adopting structured authoring<\/li>\n<li>Maximizing content reuse<\/li>\n<li>Quality control<\/li>\n<li>Reducing localization time and costs<\/li>\n<li>ROI on &#8220;good&#8221; documentation<\/li>\n<li>On demand for the channels, formats and screens of choice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/adobe-day-localization_591x430.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"430\" alt=\"Adobe-day-localization\"><\/p>\n<p>Val Swisher sharing the benefits of preparing content appropriately in order to save time and money on localization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lavacon-portland7.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" alt=\"LavaCon-GPI\" ><\/p>\n<h4>Speakers and topics<\/h4>\n<p>Speakers and Topics covered the fundamentals Content Strategists deal with daily, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Now, More than Ever, Why We Need to Create Structured Content<br \/><\/strong> Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Developing a Technical Communication Content Strategy<br \/><\/strong> Sarah O&#8217;Keefe, Founder, Scriptorium Publishing<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Multi-screen Help Authoring: How to Deal with the Explosion in Device Sizes<br \/><\/strong> Joe Welinske, President, WritersUA<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Are you Global Ready?<br \/><\/strong> Val Swisher, Founder, Content Rules<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>DITA Metrics<br \/><\/strong> Mark Lewis, Content Strategist, DITA Educator at Quark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/adobe-day-gpi_581x418.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"418\" alt=\"Adobe-Day-GPI\"><\/p>\n<p>Adobe Day ended with a nice summary session panel discussion chaired by Scott Abel &#8211; talking about what&#8217;s ahead. The panel included Joe Welinske, Beth Gerber, Bernard Aschwanden, Val Swisher, Joe Gollner, Joe Ganci and Sharon Burton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tech_comm_329x211.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"211\" alt=\"tech_comm\" ><\/p>\n<h4>Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4<\/h4>\n<p>Adobe\u00ae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/technicalcommunicationsuite.html\"> Technical Communication Suite 4<\/a> includes the most powerful products for technical communications, (Adobe FrameMaker\u00ae 11, Adobe RoboHelp\u00ae 10, Adobe Illustrator\u00ae CS6, Adobe Captivate\u00ae 6, and Adobe Presenter 8). Tech Comm Suite provides a productive environment: a powerful, integrated toolkit with single-source authoring, rich multimedia integration, and multichannel, multiscreen HTML5 publishing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work faster with cross-product integration<\/li>\n<li>Easily author and enrich XML\/DITA content<\/li>\n<li>Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens using multiscreen HTML5<\/li>\n<li>Increase enterprise productivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Globalization Partners International\u00a0has two nice case studies which demonstrate how Adobe\u00ae Technical Communication Suite helps clients save time and money in creating multilingual documentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/resources\/esi-gpi-adobe\/\"> ESi-GPI-Adobe<\/a> Case Study<br \/><em>Comprehensive Web Application Localization including User Interface, Documentation and Online HELP.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/resources\/adobe-gpi-framemaker-dita\/\"> Adobe\/GPI FrameMaker DITA Case Study<\/a><br \/><em>Discover why GPI&#8217;s DITA FrameMaker solution is ideal for multilingual publishing, especially in departments with a transient contractor workforce.<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Localization World 2012 and Multilingual Content Strategy<\/h4>\n<p>Going on this week in Seattle is <a href=\"https:\/\/localizationworld.com\/\">Localization World 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is nice to see the Content Strategy professionals and Localization Professionals are finally getting together. In fact, this years&#8217; Localization World has a complete Content Strategy track. Please check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localizationworld.com\/lwseattle2012\/programDescription.php#I2\"> program description<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions included topics like:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What Is Content Strategy?<\/li>\n<li>Global Content Strategy<\/li>\n<li>Transforming Your Global Content Strategy into Localized Content<\/li>\n<li>Making the Move to Structured Content<\/li>\n<li>Thinking Strategically about Intelligent Content on International Projects<\/li>\n<li>Content Strategy for Mobile Devices<\/li>\n<li>Think Mobile, Go Global: Writing Strategically for the Small Screen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As both of these disciplines know, it all begins with &#8220;content&#8221; in some form. If your English is poorly authored without a strategy, structure and quality control, then the challenges of translation\/localization increase greatly. Success in implementing best practices for Localization starts with the earlier success of implementing best practices in devising an overall Content Strategy. The two disciplines are interconnected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to attend Adobe&#8217;s preconference workshop &#8220;Adobe Day&#8221; at the Lavacon Content Strategy conference in Portland, Oregon last week. For a list of speakers, thought leaders and attendees, please check out Adobe Day at Lavacon. 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