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10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward

10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward. Captured or Contractor / Consultant. Goal. 10 skills in 50 minutes = 5 mins per skill Introduction to each Skill Learn What You Don’t Know Learn About Resources Jumpstart to Learning on Your Own. Plug Who Am I. Mark Lewis

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10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward

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  1. 10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward Captured or Contractor / Consultant

  2. Goal 10 skills in 50 minutes = 5 mins per skill Introduction to each Skill Learn What You Don’t Know Learn About Resources Jumpstart to Learning on Your Own

  3. PlugWho Am I Mark Lewis DITA Product Manager – Usability Quark Author “DITA Metrics” Community: WritingOBJECTively.com

  4. Take-Aways • Slide Summary • List of Resources

  5. Tell ‘em What You’re Gonna Tell ‘em • Certifications • Get Published • Service Design • Topic Based Authoring • The Promise of XML • Content Modeling and Analysis (Info Architecture) • Collaboration • Project Management • Software Development Lifecycle • Testing • Object Oriented Design • Write a Style Guide • BIO Sites • Diagramming Tools • Documenting Processes • Virtual PCs • Podcasting • Blogging • Volunteer and Learn

  6. Certifications Get ‘em. Your skills are now indisputable.

  7. Get Published • Magazine Articles • Freeware.com / Shareware.com Help

  8. Get Published – Content For Sale STC Article For Sale

  9. Get Published O’Reilly – Short Cuts

  10. Service Design documentation as a service

  11. Topic Based Authoring Task topics: • Removing Red Eye • Setting the White Balance • Setting the (ISO) Light Sensitivity Concept topics: • About White Balance • About (ISO) Light Sensitivity

  12. The Promise of XML and DITA • Translation • Reuse • Conditional Processing / Filtering

  13. The Promise…Structured Authoring Resume • Contact Information • Objective • Skills • Experience • References • Hobbies

  14. The Promise…Structured Authoring Business Letter • Letterhead or sender's address • Date • Recipient's address • Subject • Salutation or Greeting • Message (body of the letter) • Closing • Signature

  15. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Very Translatable Task Topic • Title • Short Description • Pre-Requisites • Context Information • Steps • Task Result

  16. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Task Topic

  17. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Task Topic SS of Task Topic XML

  18. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Reusable

  19. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Reusable

  20. The Promise…Structured Authoring…Reusable

  21. The Promise of XML and DITA • Introduction to DITA • JoAnn Hackos • Comtech Services • www.comtech-serv.com

  22. The Promise of XML and DITA • XML – Weekend Crash Course • Alan Houser • Kay Ethier

  23. Content Modeling and Analysis Roll Your Own Schema Information Architecture Planning for Reuse

  24. Content Development Lifecycle WBS

  25. Content Modeling and Analysis Reuse Map graphic

  26. Content Development Lifecycle Gant Chart

  27. Content Development Lifecycle WBS and Gant

  28. Enterprise Content Management • A Unified Content Strategy • Ann Rockley • Pamela Kostur • Steve Manning

  29. The Promise of XML and DITA • Conditional Processing / Filtering • Paragraph Example

  30. The Promise of XML and DITA

  31. The Promise of XML and DITA • Attributes Panel SS

  32. The Promise of XML and DITA • Translation • Reuse • Conditional Processing / Filtering

  33. Intermission / Sponsor

  34. Collaboration • No more Old School review process • Collaborative authoring • Peer reviews • Workflow tools and methodologies • Enterprise Level Contribution • Content Pipeline • Look at your Current Processes

  35. Collaboration Think About Current Processes and How They Can Be Improved Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools • Char James-Tanny • Brown, Haettinger

  36. Project Management Preparing to be a manager or project lead Dependencies = Predecessors LavaCon

  37. Software Development Lifecycle

  38. Testing Knowing the SDLC you can Be a Business Analyst Write Test Plans / Be a Tester

  39. Testing Learn About the Different Type of Test Plans Learn Terminology Black Box Testing vs. White Box Boundary Conditions

  40. Content Development Lifecycle WBS

  41. Software Development Lifecycle Software Engineering Roger Pressman

  42. Software Development Lifecycle Pressman: Beginner’s Guide

  43. Object Oriented Design Foundation Skill: XML, CMS, CSS Object = A categorization or classification of things that allows us to organize functionality or information in a way that it may be re-used / re-purposed. What a thing is What a thing does What this thing has in common with other things

  44. Object Oriented Design Objects, Characteristics, Attributes, Behaviors, Methods, Functions WritingOBJECTively.com Object Technology: A Manager’s Guide David A. Taylor

  45. Why is it Useful • For Technical Writing • facilitates re-use of content • single point of maintenance • CMS = Content Management System • XML • For Software Development • facilitates re-use of code • single point of maintenance • data hiding or encapsulation • API = Application Programming Interface

  46. Write a Style Guide Write a ScreenShot Style Guide Write a Naming Conventions Guide Unsolicited Get your name in front of people Ammo at Annual Review

  47. Write a Style Guide SS of my guide

  48. BIO Sites BIO + Photo The Content Wrangler Community LinkedIn.com Plaxo.com

  49. Diagramming Tool Process Diagramming SOP’s for Audits Swimlanes Sarbanes Oxley

  50. Diagramming Tool Content Review Process Example

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