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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the European Thematic Network for the human-centered design of interactive technologies. Convivio supports and promotes the development of "convivial technologies", ICT products, systems and services that enhance the quality of everyday life and human interaction.
Convivio. Organizations>Human Computer Interaction>Interaction Design>Regulation
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UsabilityMatters.org is a non-profit organization working towards design awareness and exchange of design sensibilities through interaction between designers and design sensitive consumers. It is a forum dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of the Usability and Interaction design community in India.
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Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities
We are an informal group of university people who share a common interest in web accessibility. Our members are from universities all over Australia.
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A community of hundreds of technical and professional writers, editors and illustrators from around Cleveland, Akron-Canton, Youngstown and Ashtabula who exchange ideas and feelings about their careers.
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Israel's organization of technical and marcom writers.
Elephant. Organizations>Business Communication>Technical Writing>Israel
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The Technical Communicator's Transformation: Publishing On-Time and On-Quality 
Results from Aberdeen’s study of over 360 technical publications department indicate that most organizations adopting topic-based authoring see benefits primarily in terms of project schedule improvements. However, a few see consistent improvements to authoring budgets, localization costs, and the quality of communications. Aberdeen’s research suggests that these differences largely result from how topic-based methodology is implemented and supported. Making the transition to a topic-based authoring requires a dramatic shift in the daily operations of a technical communications department. Meeting the challenges transitioning to a structured authoring approach can result in a wide range of performance benefits. Failing to adequately address these challenges can add an unprecedented layer of complexity that can significantly burden technical communications projects. However, findings ways to successfully evade these obstacles provides the opportunity to achieve greater value from the initiative. This report identifies the attributes most common to the Best-in-Class and provides a guide for organizations attempting to realize the potential of topic-based authoring.
David Houlihan. Aberdeen Group (2008). Organizations>Technology>Technical Writing>White Papers
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A UX (User Experience) Book Club is a get-together in which people interested in the area of user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline. In keeping with the book-club theme the location would be somewhere like a wine bar or a bookstore. The important thing is that the noise level has to be low, and be able to accommodate a group of 15-30 people.
UX Book Club. Organizations>User Experience>Community Building
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Eleanor McElwee was one of the founders of the IRE Professional Group on Engineering Writing and Speech (now IEEE PCS).
Malone, Edward A. IEEE PCS (2009). Organizations>Business Communication>History
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The STC Chicago is an active local community, with frequent meetings and a collection of online articles and resources.
STC Chicago (2005). Organizations>TC>Regional>Chicago
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Content Strategy: Google Groups
This group seeks participation from smart folks who think content strategy matters.
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At the Association of Knowledgework, people from every specialty cross professional, geographic, cultural, economic and hierarchical barriers to learn together. Not just another website, this is a virtual home for those who work with this stuff called knowledge.
Association of Knowledgework. Organizations>Information Design
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The STC Crisis: The Take of a "Young" Writer
As a “young” technical writer, I thought I might share some of my feelings on the STC crisis. First, a little background on me. I knew while I was in college that I wanted to be a technical writer after graduation. I switched to an English major for that purpose, and picked classes that gave me a “technical communication emphasis”. I joined STC while I was in college because I wanted to connect with people in my field. I got a chapter scholarship to attend a regional STC conference, and had a great time meeting people who did for a living what I was studying.
Pehrson, Paul. Technically Speaking (2009). Organizations>TC>Community Building>STC
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OSCOM: Open Source Content Management
OSCOM is the international association connecting users and developers of Open Source Content Management solutions. OSCOM organizes events, promotes standards and undertakes projects to further the state of the art of Open Source Content Management. OSCOM promotes Open Source Content Management solutions as powerful, affordable and flexible replacements for proprietary products.
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Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group Wiki
The mission of the Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group is to help enhance and standardize the architecture of the World Wide Web by facilitating the highest quality standards and best practice based education for future generations of Web professionals through such activities as: fostering open communication channels for knowledge transfer, and curriculum sharing between corporate entities, educational institutions, Web professionals, and students.
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Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID)
ACID is the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. We find better ways for people to interact with each other using communication technologies. Our expertise lies in helping people participate in the digital world.
ACID. Organizations>User Centered Design>Interaction Design>Australia
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There are a multitude of digital media companies in Brighton and many different networking groups. However there are very few opportunities to talk in detail about design both theory and practice. Let’s see how many people we can get together to form an informal group of user experience / interaction / web designers. The aim would be to meet on a semi regular basis maybe using the 20×20 Pecha Kucha presentation format maybe just bringing in problems / concepts or whatever to discuss in an atmosphere of open collaboration.
UXBrighton. Organizations>User Experience>Regional>United Kingdom
