List of National Organizations and Local Chapters for tech writers.
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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 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.
Denmark: Dantekom*, P.B. 146, DK-3600 Frederikssund, Denmark. Contact Mr. Thomas O’Connor at toc@foss-electric.dk
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 . The Nordic chapter has a mailing list in English.
France: STC has a Paris chapter. http://www.stc.org/region1/sfc
India: STC chapter in Mumbai/Bangalore.
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 .They have a website 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.
Sweden: Xplor International – The ElectronicDocument Systems Association – has a Nordic chapter. For information seeInternational organisations, Xplor , above.
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: STC See their website at 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”.
The STC headquarters’ homepage
STC’s Regional & Chapter Information survey homepage.
USA: Xplor International – The Electronic Document Systems Association – has a large number of chapters.
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.See 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. www.acm.org/sigs/sigdoc .
Also other SIGs on more or less related areas, see http://www.acm.org/sigs.
USA/Electrical eng. & electronics: IEEE/PCS*– Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Professional Communication Society: see their homepage .
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