Share Your Success Story (or Lessons Learned from Failure) at TOC 2009

One of the ongoing goals for the TOC Conference is to encourage the sharing of success stories and of the lessons learned from failed experiments and initiatives. For 2009, we're going to try something a bit different to add to the discussion, and we want your help. Tell us about your experience (good or bad!) with a new technology, technique, or strategy based on the shifting publishing landscape. We'd especially love to hear about efforts based on what you learned at a previous TOC Conference… Continue

Posted by Mac Slocum on October 7th, 2008 at 9:18am

Reading 2.0 Email list posts now mirrored at TOC Community

Peter Brantley continues to maintain his "Reading 2.0" email list, but we're also now re-posting items (but not any responses) here in the Community. Each posting becomes a new forum topic. You can also… Continue

Posted by Andrew Savikas on September 24th, 2008 at 12:33pm

Take this Survey about XML in Publishing

As part of the StartWithXML project, we're looking for respondents to a survey about XML in Publishing. Even if you're not (or not yet) doing much with XML, we want your input.

Posted by Andrew Savikas on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:08pm

Fifteen Pieces of Flair

Spread the word by adding a TOC badge to your own blog or website. They're customizable and easy to share on Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Posted by Andrew Savikas on September 15th, 2008 at 5:39pm

Using XML With Legacy FrameMaker Documents

Note: This material skews a bit more technical than our standard TOC blog fare, so I've posted here instead.

Over the past few years, here at O'Reilly we've slowly been migrating much of the production for our frontlist from FrameMaker over to DocBook XML. There are some real benefits to working with content that's in XML, and along the way we also found so…

Posted by Andrew Savikas on August 7th, 2008 at 2:56pm