This list shows international writing organizations which may be use to those entering technical writing. If we’ve missed some, please let us know.
ACM SIGCHI
Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. International organization 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 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 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Visit http://www.iabc.com .
IEEE
Please see www.ieee.org/pcs/chapters.html
INTECOM
International Council for Technical Communication is the international umbrella organization for national organizations within technical communication.
The total membership of the INTECOM organizations was approx. 23.000.
INTECOM has a web page on http://www.intecom.org.
Another updated list of the INTECOM organizations 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 internationalization, localization, multilingual documentation, translation technology and production methods, mainly within software.
LISA sells a QA Model providing guidelines and metrics for localization quality.
Visit www.lisa.unige.ch
STC - The Society of Technical Communications
Please see the local chapters for more information
www.stc-va.org/Membership/chapter_by_region.html
Xplor International
The Electronic Document Systems Association.
Visit http://www.xplor.org
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