The 200th member joined DITA Users today. We analyzed how members who join are finding us. Most come from Google (including foreign googles) after specific DITA searches, or from DITA.XML.org after a product search. Many come from our own sites like CMS Review, CMS Wiki, and DITA Infocenter. A significant number join after trying the free online demo.
We are still trying to put together enough valuable member benefits to ask members for $100 a year. Is the opportunity to edit DITA docsets and share the results online enough? We should probably poll the current members to see how they feel... We added four pages that put DITA in the broader context of structured writing characteristics like modularity, information typing, minimalism, inheritance, specialization, simplified XML, simplified English, single-source, topic-based, conditional processing, component publishing, task-orientation, content reuse, multiple output formats, multi-channel delivery, writing for translation, localization, globalization, and component content management. What is DITA, Why DITA, Business Case, and History of DITA Detailed discussion on these pages will be for members only.
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