Dr. Michael Fritz is manging director at tekom. tcworld spoke with him about the effects of the global financial crisis on the organization and the technical communication sector as well as about tekom’s increased efforts to collaborate with organizations internationally.
The year of 2009 was a difficult time for many companies. As a professional association for many members of the industry, was tekom spared from the crisis? How is the association recovering in 2010?
Professional organizations like ours are usually an indicator for the state of the profession which they represent. Fortunately, tekom was not very much affected by the economic crisis. Even at the end of the year 2009 – which was probably the worst year for the worldwide economy over the past 50 years – we saw an increase in the number of members, which was not too much below the usual figures. The conferences showed, however, that companies had cut costs rigorously: The number of attendees decreased by 15 percent and the exhibitors reported more sluggish contracting activities compared to the years before. But looking at the big picture, it was proven again, that technical communication is ...
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