Posted by David McCall on 09/19/07 16:26

"Bill Fright" <billfright@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> The definition of professionalism is and activity for money rather than a
> pass time. By the way why are you and spec and nappy so threatened by this
> magazine?
>
Everybody seems have their own definition of "professional".
Professionalism to me means taking your work seriously and
behaving appropriately. I've seen people that are definitely
professionals by most definitions behave in a manner that is
certainly lacking in professionalism. Sadly, I've been guilty
of this myself. Especially when I was younger. Conversely,
I've seen total amateurs display amazing professionalism.

It's kind-of like the concept of broadcast quality. There are
standards that can be met, but then there is all of that
cell phone video that pops up on the news. You do know
that news coverage in the field used to be all 16mm film.

To many in this field professional means the quality of the
work they do or better. Then some people are just plain snobs.
They don't even consider people that do episodic television
shows to be professionals.

So, yes, the wedding videographer, the guy that records
depositions, even the A/V person that just documents
events and makes sure the stuff in the conference room,
all can be professionals.

I suspect that there are a lot more professionals that could
learn something at a seminar than ones that don't. No doubt
people that have been at it as long as Nappy has would
learn very little in most of these classes (assuming that the
person has kept up with the technology).

David

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