STC

[Ned Bedinger]

The pace of change, in industry and law, affecting tech writers, is 
glacial, but when it comes it can be transforming. I would certainly 
want my professional organization to monitor and push information to me 
about existing and proposed changes to laws governing contractors and 
contracting, for example, or attempts to legislate whether tech writers 
are professionals or not, for another. Finding out only after the fact 
sucks!

Keeping abreast of such developments, in the boardrooms and the state 
capitol, seems like a role for the professional organization, to me.

Practically political,

--Ned

richard.melanson at us.tel.com wrote:
> Outstanding post Ned, one of the best I have read in quite some time.   "I'd drive further than that if the group also stayed awake to monitor and report on legislation and industry initiatives affecting us."  This is a great point. Thank you for your time Ned. 
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+richard.melanson=us.tel.com at lists.techwr-l.com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+richard.melanson=us.tel.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On Behalf Of Ned Bedinger
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:42 PM
> To: John Posada
> Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Re: STC
> 
> John Posada wrote:
>> Or, like me, I live on the New Jersey shore, over two hours from NYC, 
>> and I'm President of the NYMetro chapter. When we have a monthly 
>> meeting, I get home about midnight.
>>
> 
> John,
> 
> I don't want to blindside the conversation or anyone, but I saw that you were posting about STC, so I dropped in to see if you were posting another blurb about speakers and topics at STC/NYMetro, as I've noted on the list from you, not recently, but in the past.
> 
> Not to get prickly, but you may have noticed that I have occasionally said, on this list, words to the effect that I wish STC would fold up their tents and steal silently into the night, for the good of the profession.
> 
> At this point, if you're still reading, I just want to say that if some
> (loosely) local STC group presented leading topics and speakers, such as you've mentioned for your NYMetro group, even >I< would drive two hours to attend, checkbook in hand when I reach for the meeting room door. The last time I wrote STC a check must have been well over a decade ago.
> 
> I'd drive further than that if the group also stayed awake to monitor and report on legislation and industry initiatives affecting us.
> 
> Regards to you for at least talking the kind of professional organization I can appreciate.
> 
> Ned Bedinger
> doc at edwordsmith.com
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