Professional Writing Organisations - National and Local Chapters

Australia: Australian Society of Indexers.
Visit their website at http://aussi.org/

Australia STC: Australian Society for Technical Communication.
For more information, see their homepages:

ASTC NSW: http://www.astcnsw.org.au

ASTC Melbourne:http://www.vicnet.net.au/~astc

Austria: STC chapter in Wien. Contact VictoriaKoster-Lenhardt (431 66171414, e-mail: vkosterlenhardt@eur.ko.com .

Austria: Xplor International - The Electronic Document Systems Association - has a chapter for the German speaking areas of Europe.

Belgium: STC chapter in Mechelen.
Contact Luc Bouquet 32926 57474, e-mail: luc.bouquet@atek.be .

Canada: STC has many local chapters in Canada.

Canada/Electrical eng. & electronics: has many local chapters in Canada. For their addresses, see IEEE/PCS's international list of chapters .

Denmark: Dantekom*, P.B. 146, DK-3600 Frederikssund, Denmark. Contact the chairman Mr. Thomas O'Connor, N. Foss Electric A/S, Tel. +45-4226 3366. Fax: +45-4226 9322, e-mail: toc@foss-electric.dk . Approx. 75 members. January 2002:

Denmark: STC has a Nordic chapter, see its website at http://www.stc-sweden.org . The Nordic chapter has a mailing list in English.

Denmark: Techwriters Very active informal special interest group. For further information, see its website at http://www.techwriters.dk .

Finland: STC has a Nordic chapter, see its website at http://www.stc-sweden.org and has a mailing list in English.

France: CRT* - Conseil des Rédacteurs.
Contact Mr. Jean-Paul Bardez at fax +33-1 487 56633, or e-mail 100423.1635@compuserve.com

France: STC has a Paris chapter.
Contact Jean-Louis Thevenot 33680 626800, email: jltheven@club-internet.fr 
Website: http://www.stc.org/region1/sfc

Germany: tekom - Gesellschaft für technische Kommunikation e.V., Markelstraße 34, D-70193 Stuttgart. Tel: +49-711-654235. Fax: +49-711-650767. Homepage at http://www.tekom.de or e-mail
Mr. Michael Fritz at tek-m.fritz@geod.geonet.de or Ms. Brigitte Beutenmüller at tek-b.beute@geod.geonet.de

India: STC chapter in Mumbai/Bangalore.
Contact Badam Madhav Rao (080 8520261, raobm@inf.com .

Ireland: ISTC - Irish Society of Technical Communicators.
Chairman: Jack Plunkett, Kudos, 3 Sandyford Office Park, Blackthorn Avenue, Dublin18, Tel.: +353 1 294 0960,
E-mail: <kudos@iol.ie> .

Israel: STC: Contact Leah Guren at +972-4 998-9253, e-mail: leah@words.israel.net .

Japan: STC chapter in Tokyo: Contact Yoshiyuki Matunaga at +81-45-826-8310. Website: http://www.stc.gr.jp .

Japan: SWET - The Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators for people working in English in the professions of writing, editing, translating, teaching, research, rewriting, design and production, copywriting, and other areas related to the written word in Japan. 300+ members, newsletter, mailing list See http://www.infopage.net/swet/ .

The Netherlands: STIC/QTD. Studiekring voor Technische Informatie & Communicatie. Contact Mr. Rob Punselie, at fax +31-40 2757710 or e-mail punselie@msbe.nl. Their website is at http://www.stic.nl/

New Zealand: STC Christchurch chapter.
Contact Richard D. Draper, tel: +64-3-3651-299. Auckland chapter:
See their website at http://www.stcnz.org.nz/.

Norway: Forum for brukerdokumentasjon .
Chairman: Henrik Wigestrand (e-mail:hwigestr@c2i.net .
Website: http://www.dnd.no/ostlandet/fobdok/index.shtml .

Norway: NFTI - Norsk Forening for Teknisk Informasjon. 
Contact Ms. Tove Østberg at fax +47-221 80958 or e-mail comtext@oslonet.no .

Norway: STC has a Nordic chapter, see its website at http://www.stc-sweden.org The Nordic chapter has a mailing list in English.

Norway/Computers & software: DND - Den Norske Dataforening (The Norwegian Computer Society has a special interest group for documentation, Forum for brukerdokumentasjon
See http://www.dnd.no or contact the group's leader,
Marit Holen at mholen@gps.com

Russia: IEEE
Contact Mr.Henrich Lantsberg, Institute of Radio engineering & Electronics, Russia Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya Street 11, Moscow 103907, Russia, tel: +7-95-203 4985, e-mail: hlants@ire.rc.ac.ru .

Singapore: STC
Contact Paul Doyle 65 46 0 5097, e-mail: pgdoyle@nie.edu.sg .

South Africa: Institute of Technical Communication South Africa
Contact Mr. J. Roodbol on fax +27-12 83 15 53.

Sweden: FTI* - Föreningen Teknisk Information. Homepage: http://www.fti.a.se . FTI's office: FTI, Företagshuset, Hammarbyvägen 25, S-120 32Stockholm, Tel/fax +46-8-641 68 79, e-mail: bjorn.omer@wineasy.se .

Sweden: STC has a Nordic chapter, see its website at http://www.stc-sweden.org . The Nordic chapter has a mailing list in English.

Switzerland: TECOM. Contact Mr. Walter Krein at fax +41-62 836 4113. Shared newsletter with tekom, Germany.

Taiwan, Republic of China: STC
Contact: KungTeh-wen <twkung@fetnet.net>

UK: Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators.
See http://www.istc.org.uk .

UK: IEEE has a chapter for UK and Ireland.
Contact Mr. Brian Harrington, 33 Brentwood Road, Ingrave Brentwood, Essex CM13 3RE, England, tel: +44-71-404 5121,
E-mail: b.harrington@ieee.org

UK: STC
London chapter: http://www.stc.org/region1/ukc/home.htm .

USA: STC* - Society for Technical Communication, USA. STC is organised in local chapters all over the U.S.A. and issues two member publications "Intercom" and "Technical Communication". For more information, see:

The STC homepage and the STC's Regional & Chapter Information survey homepage.

USA: ATTW - The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. For more information, see english.ttu.edu/ATTW/home.htm

USA: ASI - American Society of Indexers at www.asindexing.org

USA/Biology: CBE - Council of Biology Editors, Inc.
60 Revere Drive Northbrook, IL 60062.
Phone: 847-480-6349.Fax: 847-480-9282.
E-mail: cbehdqts@aol.com .1200 members.
See http://www.cbe.org/cbe

USA/Chemistry: American Chemical Society
see American Association for the Advancement of Science homepage .

USA/Medical: American Medical Writers Association
Chapters in California at www.amwancal.org and Michigan

USA/Software & User interface: ACM/SIGDOC - Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Documentation. For information, see their homepage on http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigdoc

USA/Electrical eng. & electronics: IEEE/PCS-- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Professional Communication Society: see their homepage

See also their own http://www.ieee.org/pcs/chapters.html   
Contact Mr. Ron S. Blicq at fax +1-204 488 7294, or e-mail: 71604.1535@compuserve.com. IEEE asks for qualifications before they accept a new member.

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