In recent years, organizations for information architects (also known as 'information designers') have become vital and interesting places to meet and discuss emerging issues in usability, experience design, interaction design and metadata collection/development.
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RNIB's Campaign for Good Web Design
There are two million people with sight problems in the UK - can they use your website?
RNIB (2003). Organizations>Accessibility>Web Design
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The RoboHelp Community is a recognized leader in online support for technical writers and help authors. The RoboHelp Community includes the RoboHelp Knowledge Base, Community Help Author Forums, downloads, and other resources.
Adobe (2003). Organizations>Documentation>Software>Adobe RoboHelp
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RusCHI serves as an inter-disciplinary group for the exchange of ideas and experience in the field of usability and human-computer interaction (HCI) by bringing together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive systems.
ACM SIGCHI (2004). (Russian) Organizations>Human Computer Interaction>Regional>Russia
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Basic information about Science Communication Group: what we do and who we are.
Imperial College London. Organizations>Scientific Communication>Regional>United Kingdom
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Het doel van deze website is om leden van en geïnteresseerden in de vereniging SIGCHI.NL een platform te bieden om op de hoogte te blijven van de stand van zaken op HCI-gebied.
ACM SIGCHI. (Dutch) Organizations>Human Computer Interaction>Regional>Netherlands
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SIGWEB supports the multi-disciplinary field of hypertext and hypermedia, facilitating its application both on the World-Wide Web and also in independent, distributed and stand-alone environments. It provides a forum for the promotion, dissemination, and exchange of ideas concerning research and applications among scientists, systems designers and end-users.
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Société Québécoise de la Rédaction Professionelle
La Société québécoise de la rédaction professionnelle (SQRP) est née en 1993 de l'association de spécialistes travaillant dans divers domaines de la rédaction.
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The Society for News Design (formerly the Society of Newspaper Design) is an international professional organization with more than 2,600 members in the United States, Canada and more than 50 other countries, divided into the 19 regions shown below.
SND. Organizations>Graphic Design>Journalism>Technical Illustration
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Society for Technical Communication
STC is the largest professional association in the U.S. and Canada dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.
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The Society for Text and Discourse
The Society for Text and Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of discourse processing and text analysis. The purpose of the Society is to consolidate research in discourse processing and to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines.
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The Society of Editors (Victoria)
The Society of Editors (Victoria) Inc. is an organisation for people who are engaged professionally in editing for publication. It has more than 300 members, including in-house and freelance editors.
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Society of Environmental Journalists
The Society of Environmental Journalists is the only U.S.- based membership organization of working journalists dedicated to improvements in environmental reporting. SEJ programs are designed to build a stronger, better-educated, and more closely connected network of professional journalists and editors who cover the environment and environment-related issues. SEJ's primary goal is to advance public understanding of critically important environmental issues through more and better environmental journalism.
Society of Environmental Journalists. Organizations>Scientific Communication>Environmental
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Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders
The SFEP is a non-profit-distributing organization with the twin aims of: promoting high editorial standards; achieving recognition of the professional status of its members. There are currently around 1400 members (mostly in the UK), providing a wide range of freelance editorial services to the publishing community and beyond. Corporate membership is also available to publishing companies.
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To promote and stimulate interest in the art of illustration, past, present and future, and to give impetus generally toward high ideals in the art by means of exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, social intercourse, and in such other ways as may seem advisable.
Society of Illustrators, The. Organizations>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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The Southern California ColdFusion Users Group
The Southern California ColdFusion Users Group (SCCFUG) was formed in 1998 and was dedicated to helping its members understand and use Macromedia's ColdFusion.
SFCUG. Organizations>Web Design>Server Side Includes>California
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The Southern States Communication Association
Our purpose is to promote the study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication. SSCA, a not-for-profit organization, exists for educational, scientific, and literary purposes only. The mission of this network is to bring those in speech and communication-related disciplines--predominantly located, but not limited to the Southern United States--closer together.
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Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is an interdisciplinary community interested in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Members include researchers, developers and users from the technical, academic, business, and art communities. SIGGRAPH provides information to the computer graphics community through its annual conference, publications and the SIGGRAPH Video Review. SIGGRAPH members receive the quarterly newsletter Computer Graphics, the SIGGRAPH annual conference publications which consist of the proceedings (printed, CD-ROM and videotape), electronic art and animation catalog (printed and CD-ROM) and the conference abstracts and applications (printed and CD-ROM). A 'Lite' membership is available at a reduced rate that includes the quarterly newsletter but not the conference publications package. A 'Plus' option is also available with significant discounts on the proceedings of other computer graphics conferences and workshops. All members receive discounts to the annual conference, publications and other SIGGRAPH sponsored events, and complimentary access to the graphics publications in the ACM Digital Library.
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Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
The ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work (SIGGROUP, formerly called SIGOIS) is interested in topics related to computer-based systems that have a team or group impact in workplace settings. A strong emphasis of SIGGROUP is the integration of multiple computer-based tools and technologies and the impact on the human activities supported by those tools and technologies. Relevant issues include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodologies and impact that arise when researching computer-based systems in a development environment. SIGGROUP publishes the SIGGROUP Bulletin and offers the members a Member Plus Package.
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Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computing Machinery
This site links to various interest groups of the Association for Computing Machinery, including Computer-Human Interaction SIGCHI, Systems Documentation SIGDOC, Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques SIGGRAPH, Management Information Systems SIGMIS, Multimedia SIGMM, etc.
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STC Canadian Issues Special Interest Group
The Canadian Issues SIG was created to explore the issues that are unique to Canadian Technical Communicators, and to raise the awareness of the need for technical communications in the Canadian market today.
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Links to the STC's more than 150 chapters, including student chapters, in eight regions worldwide. Use the search feature below to locate chapter contact information, including the chapter Web site address.
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STC Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group
The Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG serves as a focal point for information about practicing technical communication as an independent contractor or consultant. It helps both new and seasoned independents practice their trade more effectively. The CIC SIG operates within STC at the international level, and supports local chapter CIC SIGs.
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STC Education and Research Special Interest Group
Education and research is very broad, therefore, we can expect to learn a great deal about a variety of topics related to education from one another. I welcome this and hope that this SIG will grow and become an open forum for people to share and express ideas on the research that they are performing or hope to perform. I believe that this SIG can provide all of us an opportunity to be exposed to bright insights and novel expressions of creativity and brilliance. Some of my educational research goals are radically unique. It is from this perspective that I hope to elicit similar ideas from others.
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STC Emerging Technologies Special Interest Group
The Emerging Technologies SIG monitors the ever-expanding uses of technology in technical communication. New tools such as hypermedia, online editing, and multimedia systems are changing the way technical communicators work.
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STC France is a geographic community of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Our Mission is to encourage and support technical communicators in France with regular networking and training events, news, useful resources, and an online job bank service.
STC France (2006). Organizations>TC>Regional>France
