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Content Rules and Congree Announce Strategic Partnership
Content Rules is now a solution implementation and consulting partner for Congree. In particular, the focus is on the increasing activities the software vendor is starting this year in the North American market.
Does Size Matter? Best Practices vs. Practical Application for Task Topics
You’ll hear over and over again about how structured authoring topics should be short. Ultimately, the exact criteria you develop depends. Learn why.
Join us at DITA North America and Journeys in April 2020
Whether you’re new to component content management or are a seasoned pro, we hope to see you at the annual CIDM DITA North America Conference in Phoenix, AZ, from April 27 to 29, 2020.
Intelligent Content vs Structured Content: Demystifying the Difference
We hear a lot about intelligent content and structured content from our customers. Often, the terms are used as if they are synonyms. This causes confusion for lots of folks. In this post, we demystify intelligent content and structured content so we can clear things up.
Content Industry Conferences and Conversations: We’d Love to See You There
Visit Content Rules at these industry conferences for a chance to win a prize, enjoy a treat, and start solving your content challenges. See you you there!
Does Your Content Spark Joy?
Keeping the content clean and organized is an important part of enterprise content management. Letting go of unnecessary stuff is what allows the necessary stuff to shine through.
Without Content Transformation You Can’t Have True Digital Transformation
Organizations are throwing millions of dollars at new technology, new ways to deliver content, new ways to communicate – but they are overlooking one critical thing … the content!
Staying in the Loop with Taxonomy
Organize and classify your content to make it more findable, and usable by implementing different layers of taxonomy in your CMS to build meaningful relationships and connections between your content.
How Your CCMS is Just Like an Instant Pot
Find out why moving from unstructured authoring to structured authoring and using a CCMS is very similar to learning how to cook a meal using an Instant Pot – and learn the secret to being successful when you do.
5 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Content for Tomorrow
These five structured authoring basics you can start doing today will help you increase the usability, quality, and value of your content no matter how it is delivered.
Structuring Your Images for a Seamless Content Experience
To achieve personalized, dynamic content delivery — to provide the information your customer wants, when and where they want it, in the language of their choosing — you need structure for all of your content. This includes images as well as text. And also video, audio, animations, 3D mechanical diagrams, customer service conversation prompts, demo bots, and augmented reality overlays.
What is Content, Anyway?
The word content is repeated so frequently it seems to lose its significance. Let’s take a step back and answer a simple question – What is content, anyway? Here’s what some of our in-house content experts had to say.
The 2018 Web Globalization Report Analyzes 150 Global Brands
For the past 14 years, John Yunker of Byte Level Research has been producing a web globalization report card that benchmarks the websites for 150 global brands from twelve industry categories. This year’s report card was released recently and it is worth a read.
Our Community in Times of Crisis
"Val! How ARE you? How is your HOUSE??" "Val! I heard about your house! Are you okay?" "Is there anything you need? Can I help you in any way?" These are a few of the exchanges I have had recently via email, social media, and in person. People who I barely know have...
Chatbot Challenges
What does it take to have a successful content strategy that includes chatbot technology? Learn more about the challenges that we face and what we can do to leverage artificial intelligence and natural language processing to start creating more convincing and engaging chatbots.
“Friendly” English Phrases Can Go Horribly Wrong in Translation
Wording that is perfectly fine in English can be quite troublesome in other cultures. More often than not, our “friendly” touches backfire.
In Very Good Company: Top 25 Content Experience Influencers
Last week, Mindtouch released the results of their most recent version of the Content Experience Top 25 Influencers list. I am delighted to be included among our industry's top 25 influencers. I am in very good company. The other 24 people who make up the Top 25 are...
When Choosing a Translation Vendor, Size Matters!
There’s an old adage that no one gets fired for hiring IBM. But does this adage transfer conceptually to the selection of a translation service provider? I think not. When choosing a vendor, size matters, and bigger isn’t necessarily better, especially for...