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Subject:Re: More about the changes coming to tech writing From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 May 2014 13:19:40 -0700
I feel like I hear more than enough about trends on this list and a few others.
The one conference that was professionally valuable for me was
EclipseCon 2005, when I needed to migrate some docs from JavaHelp to
Eclipse UA and information was hard to come by.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM, joanne grey <clarifiedmind -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Robert, I've paid my own way to conferences for years. It's not a vacation,
> it's a way to keep myself up on trends. It's a way to talk to people
> one-on-one who I might not get to talk to otherwise and see what they are
> doing. What works, and what doesn't work. It's a great way to make sure I
> stay valuable.
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