Whether you’re a Novice or a Master, you’ll find sessions that provide inspiration and practical skills, covering topics such as:

• Implementing a component Content Management System
• Adopting DITA, Markdown, or other XML structures
• Effectively reusing content
• Creating corporate taxonomies
• Incorporating social media strategies
• Managing teams
• Collaborating across the enterprise

Those new to content management and/or DITA will find guidance for starting their journey, while for experts, the our program offers ways to continue pushing the boundaries.

Mekon’s Joe Pairman will be joining the speaker line up presenting: The world needs your metadata: Is your DITA content ready?

Joe’s presentation enable you to:

• Understand the basic model behind all metadata so that they can more easily work with any specific standard
• Grasp the fundamental principles of Linked Data — the most common framework for modern metadata work
• Learn practical best practices for working with external metadata in DITA
• See clearly what unspecialized DITA can currently do and what still needs to be customized. This will help with near-term implementations but will also encourage feedback and contributions to the future of metadata support in DITA 2.0.

In addition to presenting, Joe will be available throughout the event to discuss your DITA challenges and needs. If you wish to arrange a time to meet Joe please email

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Creating a Eclipse BookBuild PDF setting

Before creating a Eclipse BookBuild PDF you need to make sure the following have been set in Adobe Acrobat:-

• Select Adobe PDF printer Properties.
• Go to Adobe PDF Setting tab.
• In Default Settings make sure it is set to High Quality Print by using the drop down list.
• Remove tick from “View Adobe PDF results”.
• Remove the tick from “Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts”.
• Click OK.

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are some popular Windows keyboard shortcuts you may not know about:-

Windows key + E = Open explorer.

Control (Ctrl) + F = Find – will search most applications and browsers for a specific string.

Control (Ctrl) + W = Close down the current application on window on your screen.

Alt + Tab = Switch between windows.

Windows key + M – Minimises all windows.

Windows key + D = Show/hide desktop (alternative to windows key + m).

Mekon’s top 3 browsers!

Google Chrome – an obvious choice that dominates the web browser market and for good reason. Its simple yet fun layout allows for speedy surfing. Our favourite features are that the URL bar at the top doubles up as the google search bar and there is an abundance of extensions to customise your browsing experience.

Microsoft Edge – After Internet Explorer was slowly overtaken by the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft had to switch things up. They decided to create Edge which is IE’s younger faster brother. Features that we like here at Mekon are the ability to create a reading list from sites you visit and the annotating feature, this allows you to annotate freely over any webpage and share it with peers.

Mozilla Firefox – Firefox has been up there with Google Chrome for a while competing for best the best browser title. It is the browser of choice for most Linux users, so you can guarantee there’s going to be lots more technical extensions than on Google Chrome. Our favourite feature of Firefox is that it is a very secure browser with inbuilt security functions party due to it being open-source.

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