Re: HWG Merger With IWA

I actually co-chaired a chapter for my area once (Western NY), but it never
went anywhere.  Western NY is far too large an area for one chapter of
anything (The Greater Rochester Area alone, where I live, has over 1,000,000
people and is abundant with high-tech industry.)

The organization seemed to loose steam for me when it went the route of
raising dues and sponsoring high-priced certification programs that seemed
to address issues far removed from my core business.

I have a great degree of faith in the HWG, and I would hope that the IWA
would benefit from the merger by modeling itself after the HWG....:)

D


----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Vollmer" <susanvollmer(at)yahoo.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 8:29 AM
Subject: HWG Merger With IWA



FYI.  It looks like a merger of the HTML Writers Guild
with the International Webmasters Association (IWA)
was announced just a few days ago.

The same news release is on both sites at:

http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/press/PR-20010830-iwa.html
http://iwanet.org/news/pr083001.html

I've been involved with both organizations, and this
sounds like it could be exciting.  The HTML Writers
Guild excels with its mailing lists and posting
questions and answers, plus its online classes.  The
strength of the IWA is in its local chapters, where
you can learn from presentations and have an
opportunity to network with others providing related
services where you live.  St. Louis is fortunate to
have a very active chapter.

If you want to see if there is a chapter where you
live, check this page.  If there's not, you always
have the option of starting it yourself:

http://www.iwanet.org/chapters/index.html#csearch

Regards,
Susan V.



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