CIC SIG offers seminar on independent contracting
Barbi Harrison, the Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG manager, has announced a series of toll teleconference calls (you pay for the call) about the life and times of a consultant or independent contractor. If you’d like to learn more, consider signing up for this first one. (Please do not contact me to ask questions about these calls, as I know as much as you do — that is, whatever is in this very announcement. 
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Here’s the announcement:
“Is the siren song of independent contracting luring you away from your captive employment? If so, don’t get shipwrecked on the rocky shore! Get all the details on how to get started by attending a one-hour conference call, “Getting Started as an Independent” moderated by Linda Gallagher. Linda is the immediate past manager of the Consulting and Indendent Contracting SIG and owner of TechComm Plus LLC. Join Linda on Wednesday, September 26. The call starts at 1:00 PM eastern time (US). Your only cost is the toll for the call. You will also receive a copy of the handouts Linda distributed at the conference. To sign up for this exciting conference call, send an e-mail to Don White (dwhite@jrtcllc.com), and he’ll respond to you with the call details. Hurry! Only 30 seats are available for this information-packed call!”
Bill Lusto said,
September 4, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Hi,
As an independent contractor myself, I welcome the opportunity to chat with other contractors. However, for this call, I’m curious why a no-cost conference call arrangement cannot be established. Typically, when I participate in a long distance conference call, a toll-free number is provided, funded by the sponsor of the call. I would be happy to join the call if I didn’t have to pay for it. I’m surprised (and a little dismayed) that it can’t be paid for either by the SIG or the STC.
Thanks,
Bill Lusto
Senior Member
Silicon Vally Chapter
mcorbin said,
September 4, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I encourage you to ask that question of the CIC SIG manager or at least of the coordinator of the call. Not all SIGs provide toll-free conference calls for their events, due to how they have budgeted their monies. The Technical Editing SIG certainly tries to make many of its events free to its members, but it cannot guarantee that all will be free.