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ePublisher 2017.1: Breaking Down Silos the WebWorks Way.

The following item was written by WebWorks sharing their latest developments. Silos started innocently enough, departments tried to categorize content to make it easier to manage and optimize search. You have a metric ton of information to look through, so let’s silo it in to categories and that will help a customer navigate through it. […]

Adobe FrameMaker training

FrameMaker has long been the authoring tool of choice for many technical authors. Develop your Adobe FrameMaker skills and book your place on one of our training courses this autumn. Mekon offer a range of training courses to meet the different requirements of FrameMaker users. At the entry level Mekon offers courses on working with both […]

Looking forward to SEMANTiCS 2017 in Amsterdam

This international event on Linked Data and the Semantic Web is where business users, vendors and academia meet. Once again it will be offering keynotes by world-class practitioners, presentations and field reports in diverse tracks, talks addressing a variety of topics, and panel discussions. The conference team recently interviewed Joe Pairman who will be delivering […]

Taxonomy Now! Building a stress-resistant knowledge architecture in your current tools

Joe Pairman’s presentation Taxonomy Now! Building a stress-resistant knowledge architecture in your current tools at CMS/DITA NA 2017 generated some interesting conversations at the event. This month Joe shares his slides for those of you who were unable to join us in San Diego earlier this year. Learn how authors can use a controlled taxonomy […]

Mekon raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society on national Cupcake Day

June 15 was national cupcake day and the Mekon team used this opportunity to raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society to help raise money to improve care, support and understanding for people affected by dementia toady, and find a cure for tomorrow. Together we ate lots of cake and had fun all for a good […]

Seek and find at IDEAS 2017 Summer Online conference

25-26 July, 2017 The conference includes five 60-minute concurrent sessions in two tracks, giving you a choice of 11 unique presentations. Participate live according to the published schedule or watch a recording of any session when it’s more convenient for you. The theme for this year’s Summer conference addresses issues of searchability and findability. Seek […]

Mekon is now a G-Cloud 9 supplier

Mekon is proud to announce that we are now a G-Cloud 9 supplier providing services to the public sector. G-Cloud is a UK government framework designed to simplify public sector procurement by utilising a pre-approved list of suppliers on the UK Digital Marketplace portal. As a supplier, Mekon provide transparent and cost effective services to help […]

DITA Authoring with oXygen Author

Looking to boost your authoring productivity by giving you a thorough understanding of oXygen XML Author’s capabilities? Book your place on one of our DITA Authoring with oXygen Author training courses. Our DITA Authoring with oXygen XML Author training course is divided in two parts. Firstly, the fundamentals of DITA and the latest best practices, […]

Taxonomy for tech comm at UA Europe

UA Europe provides a unique update on the latest industry trends, technical developments, and best practice in software user assistance. Once again the organisers are offering an excellent range of presentations including Mekon’s Joe Pairman who will be delivering  Taxonomy for tech comm: tips and tech to improve user search experience. Taxonomy is the art […]

New training course: Fundamentals of DITA Open Toolkit 2.X

28-29 June, London Nearly all DITA content management systems and editors use the DITA Open Toolkit to publish output. This toolkit is, as the name implies, a flexible platform with which to build ones own preferred output styles and tailored format. Yet, Open Toolkit configuration is seen as an esoteric task, for specialists only. This […]