Media: One Method for all Media

Information Mapping can be used to prepare content for any and all media:

• On paper:
  • reference manuals
  • training materials
  • typical business communications
• Online:
  • websites
  • intranets
  • online call centre manuals
    
• In content management systems:
  • reusable content objects
  • DITA-compliant topics
• E-mails:
• messages on PDAs or PCs
• Presentations
  • Microsoft® PowerPoint

On paper

Information Mapping breaks information down into modular chunks of content and presents each chunk using a graphical presentation mode. These graphical chunks appear like this on paper:

Online

The same modular chunks of content presented graphically can be published online and appear like this on a Website:

In Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems require structured content broken down into precisely defined and tagged modules. This makes Information Mapping ideal for preparing content for reuse in a CMS.

E-mails

E-mail messages must be succinct, well organized, and broken down into labeled chunks. Mapped e-mails could look like this:

Microsoft® PowerPoint

Microsoft® PowerPoint slides are modular chunks of information. Information Mapping provides the tools needed to

• break information down into relevant categories
• identify those categories as topics in a presentation, and
• design and present information on a slide.

More examples

For more examples of Information Mapped documents in a variety of media, click on Before and After Examples.