• Get your own DITA workspace folder and create DITA documents using the built-in DITA Storm web-based editor and a server-based Open Toolkit.

  Your workspace folder includes two IBM documentation sets and the full docset from JoAnn Hackos' Introduction to DITA.

• Locate other DITA Users near you in our international membership directory.

• Collaborate with other members using our collaboration tools.

• These basic benefits are available to all members, free and paying.

• Benefits for paying members.

Get your choice of a free copy of JoAnn Hackos' book Introduction to DITA or an <oXygen/> XML editor with WebDAV access to your online workspace folder. This offer good only for full members ($100/year).

• Get discounts on DITA Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars.
  • Bright Path Solutions DITA East and West Conferences and FrameMaker Chautauqua - save $100
  • Comtech Services CM Strategies, DITA North America, DITA Europe, and Best Practices Conferences - save 10%
  • DocTrain East and West Conferences - save $200
  • Gilbane Conferences, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington - save $150

  Attending just one DITA conference per year will completely offset your DITA Users membership fee.

• Receive significant discounts on our online self-paced tutorials and instructor-led workshops at DITA Tutor.

• Participate in occasional drawings for free tickets to major conferences (values often several hundred dollars, DocTrain, for example, is $995).

• These discount offers good only for paying members ($50/year or $100/year).

• Freelance tech writers who can not yet afford a DITA XML Editor, or are not ready to decide which one, but who want to get started with topic-based structured writing.

• Technical documentation teams who want their members to have a low-cost easy way to get started with DITA. Tech pubs team leaders and trainers can interact with writers online, checking their work remotely, with appropriate permissions on the writers' folders.

• DITA XML consultants who want to assist clients over the web. DITA Users gives them a tool they can demonstrate over the web as the first experience for organizations considering the move to topic-based authoring. They can become DITA Mentors and teach workshops using their own demo materials and our online collaboration tools.

Please join us today!

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