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Re: HUMOR: STC Conference Time!

Subject: Re: HUMOR: STC Conference Time!
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:42:52 -0800


Ed Gregory wrote:

Let's see if I have this right. A half-dozen disgruntled folks on a mailing
list versus the small army of technical communicators who find enough value
in the programs to actually spend the time and money to attend.
The STC has a habit of pretending that it speaks for all tech-writers, and, to my ears, this statement sounds like more of the same. Yet, the last time I heard attendance figures, the majority of STC members didn't attend the annual conference. And that doesn't even include all the tech-writers who don't belong to the organization - about 40 to 60 percent of those in the profession, depending on the area, from what I can figure.
Not that all these non-attendees would necessarily want to go to a more technically-oriented conference, either, but you can hardly claim wide-spread satisfaction in the conference among the profession on the basis of attendance .

Moreover, those who do attend aren't necessarily interested in the programming. It's a chance for a holiday, and for some socialization. I suspect that the chance to meet people is probably one of the more powerful incentives for attending.

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