Folks: I am in the process of finishing a run down on the technical communication industry and profession for a European audience and wondered if people could help me with a few things as a bit of a reality check. I wonder about: What qualifications do you have? What are the software tools that you use? What do you think the image is of technical communicators and what we do? What is the size of your company: eg number of employees (permanent/freelance)? Are you involved in translation and/or localisation? How do you see the future development of our profession? Replying off-list works for me. I appreciate any input you have and will acknowledge all responses. Greg Baker ACT Convenor for ASTC(NSW) ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************