fast turn-around

[cellio]

The administrative-support folks at my company are fabulous. The most recent instance of this comes from a conference I'll be attending this fall. After I finally got an authorizing signature on the relevant form (which took weeks), I asked about implementation. "Oh, [name] will take care of that for you." That was Friday. I now have a hotel registration, a better plane ticket than I'd been able to find on my own, and conference registration, with me not having to do anything more than provide the URL and approve the flight. Nifty. Not that I've done this a lot, but at every past employer I've had to do the leg-work -- and, by the way, buffer some things on my own credit card.

(ACM SIGDOC, the best conference I know of for technical technical writers. I wonder if I know anybody in Memphis, or anyone else who's going.)

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[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Has SIGDOC improved? I remember when I was involved with them in the early 1990s, and they had like a 10 page newsletter (this was just about the time I became chair of ACM SIGSAC).

Right now, I'm trying to figure out where ACM, and professional societies in general, fit today. Yes, there are conferences. But are there other purposes for the societies other than putting on the conferences? I know our local ACM chapter is rapidly dying (although we're still at 600 members, we're lucky to get 10 at a meeting, and then 90% of them are over 60!).

Lastly, are you implying that STC is less than useful as an organization? (My wife was involved with the local STC chapter for a while, but hasn't been for ages. She's still involved with SWE, which is a good organization).