[Sigia-l] redirect for AIfIA discussion

[Jennifer Oskar]

This is my first time posting to this list serve -- so I guess you can call 
me a lurker.  But I was always taught to listen for a while before you 
speak.

Anyways I have be practicing IA for about 5 years now under may different 
titles -- the most bizarre one was Multimedia Coordinator, and then there 
was Web Marketing Specialist.  LOL -- don't ask me what they were thinking.  
And unfortunately for the last three years I have been working in the public 
sector, in the middle of the US which as even less support for IAs. And 
there are not local or national IA organizations for middle of US that help 
to provide feedback or support. The best I can hope for is books and lists 
like this one.

So I will get to my point.  I would love to get involved with organizations 
like AIFIA -- but the problem is that most the organizations have come and 
gone and they provide more information about foreign country groups than 
little old places like the middle of Kansas or right now KY.

And that is where my problem lies with AIFIA (And other organizations) - I 
am not sure if it can help me in the physical location of the US that I am 
at, and I can't find out either, cause I am not a member.  So I am in a 
never ending circle -- pay the money and be unable to take advantage of the 
services because of location -- or not join and miss making contacts with 
the other miss-named IAs in the middle of the forgotten US.

--  jennifer

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