A blog generated automatically from my Ping.fm posts.
Friday, January 30, 2009
U.S. HHS Dept Adopts New Rules To Coordinate Health Care Technology: http://ping.fm/cICuy
Toward 2W, Beyond Web 2.0: http://ping.fm/Fgwvw
#ic09 "We can now make content intelligent: discoverable, processable, informative" - Joe Gollner
#ic09 "DITA provides an evolving framework for handling content and its challenges more gracefully than previously" - Joe Gollner
#ic09 "An enterprise is an undertaking, not a company" - Joe Gollner
#ic09 "There are lots of XML editors out there; I categorize them all as diabolical" - Joe Gollner
#ic09 Joe Gollner presents "Content Fusion: There's a Piece of Data Lodged in my Document"
#ic09 "You want to have basis for establishing the value of info management as a discipline to help your org get what it wants" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "If we deliver the right info to the right people in the right way, it will help us meet our goals" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "We don't only have to design system, we have to figure out the life cycle of the information we intend to manage" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "There is design phase that goes on before the physical design of a system" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 Help to design the logic of your information efforts to ensure you meet the needs of your end-users - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "Information management, content management, learning management ... they're all different, and yet all the same" -- Bob Boiko
#ic09 "There's a big difference between having the information and delivering the information" -- Bob Boiko
Fotolia seeks stock video footage http://ping.fm/boe3T
#ic09 "Centralizing everything: an insidious concept... - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "Not so smart" trying to manage/ centralize / integrate everything; hiding technology addiction - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "We have to make sure that the people in our organization find what we do as valuable as the work everyone else does" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 "I picked the title of the book, 'Laughing at the CIO' to be provocative" - Bob Boiko
#ic09 Bob Boiko ("Laughing at the CIO" http://ping.fm/3Y7oY) opens day two w/ "Where are the smarts in Information Management?"
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Avoid airport security lines. Get CLEAR Pass: http://ping.fm/aSXqa (get a free month - enter discount code DSCAM1111400)
Micro-motors would fit to swim human arteries: http://ping.fm/DoTWO
David Plouffe, Campaign Manager, Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign at Digital Marketing World (virtual event) http://ping.fm/0cXDp
[Take it Offline] Google Finally Enables Offline Access for Gmail: http://ping.fm/FaHsn
FEMA Request for Information (RFI) for Identity Management Solutions: http://ping.fm/6jPuw
W3C Publishes XML Base (Second Edition) as a Recommendation: http://ping.fm/crtH5
#ic09 Phillips has 40,000 products on market; content produced in 42 languages; 5,000 new products a year; 12.5 million words written
#ic09 "Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant" - Natasja Paullsen
Restaurant week specials from coast-to-coast http://ping.fm/5rzhM
Restaurant reservations made easy: OpenTable (some cities are more represented than others) http://ping.fm/M6x7I
#ic09 Natasha Paulssen is up next at Intelligent Content; She will discuss the "Thirst for information"
#ic09 McDonald's saves money on content translation, and by eliminating need to print hard copy manuals; addl' saving from content reuse
#ic09 McDonald's is localizing content through their LCMS; local markets access the source original content from LCMS & localize themselves
#ic09 McDonald's publishes reusable content to PDF, web, pocket quality reference guide -- all localized to individual markets
#ic09 McDonald's uses a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) called Evolution from OutStart to manage content intelligently http://ping.fm/OVQ2K
#ic09 Developing standards and adopting tools to support content management goals improved McDonald's global training content strategy
#ic09 Content creators at McDonald's are taught to create "Content without Presentation" (chunks of modular content, written for reuse)
#ic09 McDonald's moved from document management system to learning content management system to tackle their global training content issues
#ic09 McDonald's realized their content was out of control; analysis found inconcongruent content and non-standard processes
#ic09 McDonald's asked themselves, "Does this content need to be different?" When the answer was no, they created reusable content units
#ic09 Steve Lange discusses why McDonald's moved to reusable, XML content to unify their processes/procedures in 31,000 stores worldwide
[Two all beef patties...] #ic09 McDonald's analysis showed same information often represented in different ways for no business reason
#ic09 McDonald's found that they have lots of content that should be the same, that employees around the world were writing differently
#ic09 "Build for users, developers and machines" - Tom Coated (quoted by Salim Ismail)
#ic09 "Fire Eagle is like Twitted for locations." Salim Ismail
#ic09 "Location-based apps answer question: Where am I and where are the things/places/people I care about" Salim Ismail
#ic09 "Context drives 80% of information value - who is speaking provides context" Salim Ismail
#ic09 "the key to IC is context" Salim Ismail
#ic09 "Pattern recognition is a key aspect of intelligence" Salim Ismail
#ic09 "IC is the ability to take a pattern from one frame of reference and apply it to another" Salim Ismail
#ic09 Ann Rockley opens Intelligent Content Conference in Palm Springs. Salim Ismail is keynote. Talking about NASA, the Net, and more!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
[When TinyURLs Go Bad] Preview links with http://previewlink.org/ to avoid redirects to phishing scams, spam, malware sites
[iPhone Apps] Cooliris for iPhone http://ping.fm/wWRIN
Catalogs, mortgages: Examples of hybrid documents containing narrative & transactional content (Source "Document Engineering" MIT Press)
[Vocabulary] Document Choreography: a complex and carefully managed series of document exchanges (Source: "Document Engineering," MIT Press)
Still wondering what Intelligent Content is, wonder no longer: http://www.rockley.com/articles/The%20Emergence%20of%20Intelligent%20Content%20(JGollner%206%20Jan%202009).pdf
Following my AT&T story? they just billed me for service they claim they don't offer in my city! http://ping.fm/lPiM1
Amazed that the US Congress has discovered Twitter http://ping.fm/fxfMP
Working on presentation for Intelligent Content Conference http://ping.fm/TDcF3
Scott Abel is a content management strategist and structured XML content evangelist, whose strengths lie in helping organizations improve the way they author, maintain, and deliver their information assets. Scott’s blog, The Content Wrangler (http://www.TheContentWrangler.com), is a popular online resource for technical writers with an interest in content management. Scott’s social networking site, The Content Wrangler Community (http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com), is a global network of content professionals that attracts thousands of members from around the world. A founding member of Content Management Professionals (http://www.cmpros.org), Scott previously served as Executive Director of the organization.
Scott writes regularly for trade and industry publications, blogs, and newsletters. He also runs several industry events – the Documentation and Training (http://www.doctrain.com) and Web Content (http://www.webcontentconferences.com) conference series.