Although not a Callerlab "junkie" as Andy put it, I've been a fairly active Callerlab member since 1985, and helped initiate Andy into his first Callerlab (a very young pre-retirement, pre-HWCBN Andy). I tend to go about every three years, when it's on this side of the continent.
I'm going to unsubscribe from sd-callers, too. It's just too much yuck, and you're right, there's a huge amount of verbal garbage on there. I will stay on sd-abc though, although there's a lot of carryover on that. However, over the years, I learned who to delete and who to read...you probably don't have that knowledge or history. I'll be my delete key gets hit on 90% of the messages.
Callerlab is NOT a waste of time by any means. Trust us on this one. For the newer callers, the HUGE amount of included seminars and panels you can go to is reason enough, not to mention being able to talk 1:1 with anyone there. And anyone can be part of the Birds of a Feather sessions of which several of us, including Andy, Kris and I have been active in.
Yes, there's a bit of fluff and pageantry that goes on with most any professional organization. But don't let that caller list scare you off, please! Please!
You mercifully weren't around in the late 80s when the whole licensing issue, and the dialogs that came about from that created an off-shot American Callers Association, which doesn't do much as far as I can tell, other than license, if that's all you want, and don't want to belong to a professional organization.
Most of us have some conflicting ideas of calling, but Callerlab really is an equalizing organization in many ways, and overall you'll find the egos put aside.
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Date: 2005-12-11 06:51 pm (UTC)I'm going to unsubscribe from sd-callers, too. It's just too much yuck, and you're right, there's a huge amount of verbal garbage on there. I will stay on sd-abc though, although there's a lot of carryover on that. However, over the years, I learned who to delete and who to read...you probably don't have that knowledge or history. I'll be my delete key gets hit on 90% of the messages.
Callerlab is NOT a waste of time by any means. Trust us on this one. For the newer callers, the HUGE amount of included seminars and panels you can go to is reason enough, not to mention being able to talk 1:1 with anyone there. And anyone can be part of the Birds of a Feather sessions of which several of us, including Andy, Kris and I have been active in.
Yes, there's a bit of fluff and pageantry that goes on with most any professional organization. But don't let that caller list scare you off, please! Please!
You mercifully weren't around in the late 80s when the whole licensing issue, and the dialogs that came about from that created an off-shot American Callers Association, which doesn't do much as far as I can tell, other than license, if that's all you want, and don't want to belong to a professional organization.
Most of us have some conflicting ideas of calling, but Callerlab really is an equalizing organization in many ways, and overall you'll find the egos put aside.