Webinars

Using Advanced Features in Unstructured FrameMaker 11

June 20, 2013

Ironically, some of the most powerful and advanced features in FrameMaker 11 are the easiest to use! Join this session to view FrameMaker expert, Barb Binder, sharing a detailed tour of such powerful features as:

Creating and managing cross-references
Generated lists for books like TOCs and Indices
"Intelligent" page running headers/footers from system variables
Advanced features in tables and table styles
Powerful uses of the reference page
How to have page layout (master pages) automatically change with key paragraph styles

You will find this tour well worth it, and realize just how much you can accomplish with FrameMaker after a very short "ramp up" time.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Exploring RoboHelp: TOC, Index and Glossaries [30 minutes]

June 21, 2013

In this 30 minute webinar, we will explore 3 more relatedfeatures in RoboHelp 10: Tables of Contents (TOCs), Indices and Glossaries. These 3 features improve navigation, help move important information within view and are extremely simple to create.

This session will show you how to:

How to create an automatic or manual TOC
How to associate different TOCs with different publishedoutput
Simple techniques for creating a Glossary
How to create a comprehensive or simple Index
Brief advice on when an Index may be helpful in WebHelp or other published RoboHelp output

Join this brief, dynamic session to see just how far you can go with improved navigation in your HELP or P&P projects; "you can do it too!"

About the Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.

ROBOHELP 101: Product overview for new users [a 3-part series]

June 25, 2013 - July 24, 2013: Tuesday, June 25,2013; Thursday, July 11,2013; Wednesday, July 24,2013

A 3-session series on RoboHelp to give you a cohesive product overview on workflow, essential features and useful 'how to's." This series is designed for new comers to RoboHelp 10, or those who may have used earlier versions and wish to become reacquainted with this powerful HAAT tool for creating WebHelp, online Policies and Procedures, and single-source publishing to multiple screens, tablets and mobile devices via HTML5!

Discover how many powerful things you can do with simple drag n' drop gestures. Also explore the many online resources, including finished project files that may only need the addition of your company logo or a slight color change to set you in motion. Shared resources designed for collaborative authoring, editing and review abound.

Register for all three session to be notified of links to the recordings after the event. Links to useful reference materials, books and training resources will also be shared throughout the series.

FRAMEMAKER 101: Product overview for new users [a 3-part series]

June 27, 2013 - July 30, 2013: Thursday, June 27,2013; Wednesday, July 10,2013; Tuesday, July 30,2013

A 3-session series gives you a fairly comprehensive coverage of unstructured FrameMaker basics, from templates and workflows to book building and advanced features. The final session is a good overview of working with XML/DITA in FrameMaker's structured mode. From its birth over 20 years ago, FrameMaker has excelled at handing large, complex projects with single-sourcing and multi-channel publishing. Considered to have "the world's best tables," FrameMaker is widely considered to be a full-fledged DITA authoring solution.

FrameMaker was awarded the prestigious CODiE award in 2013 for "Best Solution for Integrating Content Into the Workflow." This series of webinars will give you a good idea why FrameMaker was so honored, covering a range a wide range of relevant product functions.

Discover how many powerful things you can do "out-of-the-box" with FrameMaker, including immediate creation of DitaMaps and DITA topics and concepts. (You don't even have to know what DITA is to accomplish this successfully.) -- Register for all three session to be notified of links to the recordings after the event. You will be referred to useful reference materials, books and training resources will also be shared throughout the series.

Crossing Boundaries: 5-part Content Strategy Series

July 17, 2013 - December 12, 2013: Wednesday, July 17,2013; Thursday, September 19,2013; Thursday, October 17,2013; Wednesday, November 20,2013; Thursday, December 12,2013; More

This 5-part series covers a new challenge: content professionals are facing the breakdown of traditional boundaries that affect their subject matter as well as their professional functions. Among the issues that are influencing this evolution are:

Physical space has disappeared
Time is asynchronous
Users become producers
Consumers raise corporate consciousness
Private life becomes part of professional life and vice versa

Communicative content professionals will need to take the lead in conception, design, and interpretation of new, intelligent applications, through the expert understanding of these event sequences. Content professionals need to investigate and quickly learn about the critical issues driving social transformation, and how they can take their place in the leadership of an emerging transformation society. Join us for all 5 sessions to gain guidance and insights from our expert guests.

About the presenters: Ray Gallon is owner of Culturecom, a consultancy specializing in technical information design, content strategy, and usability. He has over 20 years’ experience in the technical content industry, having worked with major companies such as IBM, Alcatel, and General Electric Health Care. Previously, Ray was an award-winning radio producer and journalist, and has worked with with broadcasters such as CBC (Canada), NPR (United States), France Culture, Radio Netherlands International, Deutsche Welle, WDR (Cologne, Germany). In the late 80s, Ray was program manager of WNYC-FM, New York Public Radio.

Neus Lorenzo (PhD) heads the Foreign Language Service in the Departament d’Ensenyament, the local Ministry of Education in Catalonia (Spain), and has worked at the Inspectorate of Education in the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan government). She has been a trainer and advisor (Council of Europe, Anna Lindh Foundation) and is currently coordinating the Lifelong Learning Project of the European Union in Catalonia. She has also represented the Spanish autonomies before the education committee of the European Parliament.

Sess 9) FrameMaker for Word Users: DITA for beginners: workspaces, built-in DITA 1.2 structures and 3 edit views

July 18, 2013

FrameMaker has been a full-fledged DITA authoring/editing solution for quite some time, and is a logical progression for MS Word users. Not only is it easy to convert Word documents to regular FrameMaker files, a relatively painless method can convert such files to DITA/XML files. This session focuses on how DITA or structured editing workspaces can be customized to make the transition easier for Word users. Discover how built-in DITA support creates "fill-in-the-blank" topics and why there are 3 markedly different ways to view and edit DITA. This session will help you determine if FrameMaker is the right path to DITA for you if you are outgrowing MS Word.

Designing Templates in FrameMaker 11

July 25, 2013

Template design in FrameMaker is intuitive, easy-to-grasp, yet produces potent results, even in the early stages of a project. Whether you are working with unstructured FrameMaker, or you plan to use existing paragraph and character styles to incorporate into a structured DITA project, you can benefit from this session. Watch seasoned FrameMaker maven Barb Binder explain concepts like:

Planning for logical paragraph, character, table and graphic object styles
Time-saving steps in page layout (replicating and modifying master pages)
Internal document content re-use from Reference Pages
Advanced template "extras" like user variables, cross-references and more
Tips for managing externally referenced graphics for logos and similar data

After this session you will have a good grounding in the fundamentals for planning a template, and also "borrowing" design elements from existing documents.

Sess 10) FrameMaker for Word Users: Hybrid Publishing: mixing DITA/XML and unstructured content in FM Books

August 22, 2013

Many Word users want to migrate to topic-based authoring and structured editing. But this is not an overnight process, and their project delivery schedule may prevent converting all data to DITA before first publication occurs. FrameMaker 11 allows you to create a book that is composed of DITA or XML files for chapters, and unstructured FrameMaker files (swiftly converted from legacy Word docs) for appendices and "back matter." This unique approach to "hybrid publishing" is ideal for an enterprise "in transition", moving towards full DITA/XML content/publishing. View this session to find out just how logical and easy this can be with FrameMaker.

Optimizing the Word to FrameMaker Workflow

September 13, 2013

Migration from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker is a very common path for content creators whose worklfow outgrows Word's limitations with high volume or document complexity. Watch FrameMaker expert Barb Binder share her tips on how to manage a migration workflow from Word to FrameMaker, including:

Optimizing styles and catalogs in Word before conversion to reduce document touch up
Word document artifacts to eliminate or avoid
How to grasp fundamentals of FrameMaker publishing in terms that Word users can appreciate and understand
How to automate publishing tasks in FrameMaker via intelligent styles that required more manual effort in Word

After this session you will have a good foundation on how to work with Word and FrameMaker, and when it makes sense to migrate your project content into FrameMaker.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Sess 11) FrameMaker for Word Users: User Engagement; utilizing video, audio and rich 3D graphics in your projects

September 17, 2013

Word users, learn how to engage and retain users with documentation that is more dynamic via video, 3D graphics and audio. Discover how FrameMaker 11 gives you easy to use tools for importing rich graphics that have intelligence and a guided user experience when publishing to PDF. Turn what was previously a static "paper" experience into a dynamic, customer retaining achievement.

Using Unstructured FrameMaker with Adobe Illustrator

October 24, 2013

FrameMaker is tightly integrated with Adobe Illustrator via Tech Comm Suite, which makes a terrific solution for all of your vector graphic challenges. Join FrameMaker maven Barb Binder for a thorough tour of using these two powerful products together to get the best in both text and graphics content.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Using Unstructured FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat

November 21, 2013

Adobe Acrobat combined with FrameMaker provides potent solutions in several areas, ranging from collaborative PDF review, to publishing an interactive, guided user experience via 3D graphics published to PDF. Discover some of the many ways that you can make your PDF output come alive by combining the strengths of two great products; FrameMaker and Acrobat.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.