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Subject:RE: Well, I Sure Won't Be in Chicago From:jgarison -at- ide -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:24:50 -0400
We tried to do something very similar to this at Help University a couple of
years ago. The only problem was that people stayed away in droves. At the
local Boston STC conference (InterChange), we had a couple of GREAT
technical sessions by Jim Currie on client- and server-side functions. No
one showed up.
Look at the numbers:
Conference - average attendance
InterChange - 250
Help U - 350
WinWriters - 1,100
STC - 3,500
It all boils down to numbers, folks ... and if you start to narrowcast, you
will get fewer attendees, and if you get fewer attendees, you go broke.
STC gives its membership more or less what they want. I would like to see
more technical presentations, too, but they appeal to too few people. We try
and hold 'em, you don't show up, we stop holding 'em.
If you want technical content, you go to a technical conference. You want
writer-oriented content, you go to a writer conference.
What does SIGDOC do? What do they draw?
And where ARE you technical guys who want technical content going to learn
your stuff?
John
John Garison
Documentation Manager
IDe
150 Baker Avenue Extension
Concord, MA 01742
-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Boyington [mailto:tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:52 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Well, I Sure Won't Be in Chicago
I think that would be a great idea. One conference with info for writers
(beginners, intermediate, expert) *and* tracks for major content areas would
be the best of both worlds IMHO. Heck, *I* might even go. ;-)
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc
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>>> "Barilone, Marni" <marni -dot- barilone -at- us -dot- sema -dot- com> 04/12/01 09:54AM >>>
Couldn't we have a writer's conference that had technology tracks:
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