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I would take Andrew's response with a large grain of salt.
1. I am writing this from my workplace (on my lunch hour of course), and I found this job on the STC Web site in the Jobs Database. The Jobs database is only available to STC members.
2. I am not the least bit interested in empire building. I enjoy the sharing of ideas with other technical writers, and listening to the speakers at our dinner meetings. I have been the "lone writer" several times in my career and it really pays off to get together with other technical writers for a sanity check. And when I've been a manager, again, networking has given me leads to people to interview for openings, or on contractors for short-term projects.
Having said that, STC was a bit delinquent in catching on to the whole Online Help wave. I had to attend WinWriters Conferences (my first was 1997) to interact with a large number of people doing the same thing as I. The predecessor to the HATT discussion list (WinHlp-L) was also a life-saver!
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