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Communication Sites
The following are professional organizations that are in communication-related fields. Note: All links going to other Web sites will open in another window if you have Javascript turned on. Otherwise, they will open in the current browser window.
- The Ada Project (TAP) Internet resources for women in computer science
- Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington (Ad Club)
- American Agricultural Editor's Association (ABWA)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW), National
- American Business Women's Association (ABWA)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Copy Editors Society (ACES)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Marketing Association, International (AMA)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
- American Medical Writer's Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter (Rockville, MD)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- American Newswomen's Club
- American Physical Society (APS)
- American Society of Indexers (ASI)
- American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
- American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
- American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
- American Translators Association (ATA)
- American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT)
- American Women in Radio & Television all chapters information
- American Women in Radio & Television, National Capital Area Chapter Washington, DC
- Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington (ADCMW)
- Association for Business Communication (ABC)
- Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
- Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE)
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
- Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
- Association of Professional Communication Consultants (APCC)
- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
- Association for Women in Communications (AWC)
- Association for Women in Science (AWS)
- Business Forms Management Association (BFMA)
- Capital PC User Group, "Users Helping Users"
- Center for Plain Language
- Clarity an international association promoting plain legal language
- Content Management Professionals (CM Pros)
- Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
- Council of Science Editors (CSE)
- Creative Network
- Consulting Women network of women consultants in Washington, DC
- DC Web Women (formerly DC Webgrrls)
- Document Management Industries Association (DMIA)
- Editors' Association of Canada (EAC)
- Home Office Association of America (HOAA) Small Office Home Office (SoHo) Central
- IDEAlliance
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) [UK]
- Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)
- International Association of Audiovisual Communicators (IAAVC)
- International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- International Council for Technical Communication (INTECOMM)
- International Reading Association (IRA)
- International Television and Video Association (ITVA)
- International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)
- Johns Hopkins University Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter
- National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
- National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC)
- National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
- National Book Network (NBN)
- National Capital Speakers' Association (NCSA)
- National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)
- National Press Club (NPC)
- National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)
- National Publishers Association (NPA) newsletters
- National Acadamies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) check out their acronym list
- Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association (NEPA)
- Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
- Plain Language Association INternational (PLAIN)
- Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
- Publishers Marketing Association
- Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
- Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF)
- Scribes: the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
- Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research (SIETAR|USA)
- Society for Marketing Professional Services
- Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
- Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE)
- Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
- State of Maryland International Reading Association Council (SoMIRAC)
- The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) an organization of professional and executive women
- Virginia State Reading Association (VSRA)
- Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Distance Learning Association
- Washington Independent Writers
- Washington Speakers Bureau
- Washington Women in Public Relations
- Webgrrls international
- Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University
- Women in Computing Academic Resource (WCAR)
- Women in Film & Television (WIFT-T) Toronto
- Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI)
- Women in Film & Video (WIFV) Washington, DC
- Women in Technology (WIT) in the metropolitan Washington, DC area
- Women in Technology International (WITI)
- Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia
- Women's National Book Association (WNBA)
- World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
- The Writer's Center
Design and Human Interface Sites
- ACM SIGCHI
- ACM SIGGRAPH Home Page
- Adobe WWW Home Page
- As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945, HTML Version
- British HCI Group
- Computer Graphics
- Gary Perlman's Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI) Development, and Human Factors (HF)
- Human-Computer Interface Index
- Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Interesting Human Factors Sites
- International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
- MIT Media Lab
- SGI
- Usability.gov a resource for desiging Web sites and user interfaces
- Usability Professional's Association (UPA)
- useit.com — Jakob Nielsen's website of usable information technology
- User Interface Engineering
- User Works Rockville, MD
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