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Professional Writing
Organisations - International Organizations
ACM SIGCHI
Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on
Computer-Human Interaction. International organisation with chapters
in many countries. SIGCHI serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas
among computer scientists, human factors scientists, psychologists,
social scientists, systems designers and end users. The SIGCHI
Bulletin is published quarterly. Among the subjects worked with are: user-friendly
user documentation and usability testing. Visit http://www.acm.org/sigchi/local-sigs/
IABC
The International Association of Business Communicators aims at
establishing and supporting the highest professional standards of
quality and innovation in organizational communication. IABC has
12,500 members worldwide organised in 119 chapters in Australia,
Belgium, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand,
Philippines, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United
States or America. Visit http://www.iabc.com
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IEEE Please see www.ieee.org/pcs/chapters.html
INTECOM – International Council for Technical Communication -
is the international umbrella organisation for national organisations
within technical communication. The total membership of the INTECOM
organisations was approx. 23.000 in 1995. INTECOM has a web page on http://www.intecom.org.
Another updated list of the INTECOM organisations can be found at
Peterborough Technical Communication's homepage at http://www.gold.net/petecom/intecom.htm
ISTI - International Society for Technical Illustrators.
See http://www.epic-isti.com/epic/
LISA
For companies interested in product internationalisation,
localisation, multilingual documentation, translation technology and
production methods, mainly within software. LISA sells a QA Model
providing guidelines and metrics for localisation quality. Visit www.lisa.unige.ch
STC - The Society of
Technican Comunications
www.stc-va.org/Membership/chapter_by_region.html
Xplor International - The Electronic Document Systems
Association.
Visit http://www.xplor.org
Also, this section contains links to some of the leading Professional
Writing Organizations. If we have missed any, please let us know.
Society for Documentation
Professionals (SDP).
American Society for Training and
Development
"The focus of our profession on developing people, in the light
of the knowledge economy, is the key to competitive advantage. There
is a new world of learning emerging – one that links people,
learning, and performance - and a new community growing around
it."
Association
for Computing Machinery SIG on Documentation
SIGDOC is a Special Interest
Group for Documentation - a society of senior
communication professionals. Members are from all technical and
scientific disciplines, those who create documentation in the
computing community and those who use of computers to create
documentation in many styles and mediums. SIGDOC's
policy is to offer a uniquely intimate and affordable conference.
SIGDOC also sponsors annual awards for individual and organizational
contributions to the field of computer documentation. SIGDOC
membership includes a subscription to the quarterly newsletter, *The
Journal of Computer Documentation, while ACM
Associate and Student Members also receive a subscription to the
monthly magazine Communications of the ACM.
Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing
Association for Women in
Computing
The Association for Women in Computing is a non-profit professional
organization for women and men who have an interest in information and
technology. The Association is dedicated to the advancement of women
in the technology fields.
IEEE Computer Society
With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's
leading organization of computer professionals. Founded in 1946, it is
the largest of the 36 societies of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The Computer
Society's vision is to be the leading
provider of technical information and services to the world's
computing professionals.
National Association of Government
Communicators
The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) is a
national not-for-profit professional network of federal, state and
local government employees who disseminate information within and
outside government. Its members are editors, writers, graphic artists,
video professionals, broadcasters, photographers, information
specialists and agency spokespersons.
Women
in Technology International: For more than a decade, WITI has
successfully provided women in technology inspiration, education,
conferences, on-line services, publications and an exceptional
worldwide network of resources. WITI is the first and only
international organization solely dedicated to advancing women through
technology.
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