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Communication
The following are professional organizations that are in communication-related fields.
- Alliance for Women in Media
- American Advertising Federation, Washington, DC (AAF DC)
- American Agricultural Editor's Association (AAEA)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Association of Physics Teachers® (AAPT®)
- 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 News Women's Club Updated
- American Physical Society (APS)
- American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
- American Society of News Editors (ASNE) (the Association of Opinion Journalists (AOJ)—formerly National Conference of Editorial Writers, 1947-2011—merged into ASNE in 2016-2017)
- The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) changed its name to Association for Talent Development (ATD)
- American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
- American Translators Association (ATA)
- 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 Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Updated
- Association for Women in Communications (AWC)
- Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- Australia Society for Technical Communication (ASTC), Australia
- Business Forms Management Association (BFMA)
- Capital PC User Group, "Users Helping Users"
- Center for Plain Language
- Clarity an international association promoting plain legal language
- Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) provides Information Technology (IT) Certifications & Training. Professional and Student membership (formerly AITP). Revised
- COM&TEC, Italy [COM & TEC is the National Association of Technical Communicators in Italy.]
- Conseil des Rédacteurs Techniques (CRT), France [the Council of Technical Writers in France.]
- Content Management Professionals (CM Pros)
- Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
- Council of Science Editors (CSE)
- Editors' Association of Canada (EAC)
- Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation – tekom Deutschland e.V. (tekom), Germany [the German Association for Technical Communication – tekom.]
- IDEAlliance
- Illustrators Club of Washington, DC
- Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
- 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)
- Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
- International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- International Reading Association (IRA)
- International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)
- International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), a National Council of Teachers of English affiliate, was founded in 1983. IWCA fosters the development of writing center directors, tutors, and staff by sponsoring events, publications, and other professional activities; by encouraging scholarship connected to writing center-related fields; and by providing an international forum for writing center concerns.
- Johns Hopkins University Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC)
- National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
- National Book Network (NBN) Updated
- National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)
- National Capital Speakers' Association (NCSA)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)
- National Press Club (NPC)
- National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)
- National Acadamies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) check out their acronym list
- Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
- Plain Language Association INternational (PLAIN)
- Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
- Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA)
- Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF)
- SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists) is an international association of individuals and organizations with special interests in the exchange and dissemination of information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD), including opioids, cannabis, stimulants, etc.
- Scribes: the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
- Society for Information Display (SID)
- 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)
- Finnish Technical Communication Association [Suomen Teknisen Viestinnan Yhdistys (STVY), Finland.] Updated
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Association
- Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand (TechCommNZ), New Zealand
- Tecom Schweiz [Technical Communication in Switzerland ]
- Tekom Europe Technical Communication in Europe – the Tekom Association
- The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) an organization of professional and executive women
- United States Distance Learning Association
- Virginia State Literacy Association (VSLA) Updated
- Washington Speakers Bureau
- Washington Women in Public Relations
- Webgrrls international
- Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University
- 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
- Write the Docs
- World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) – see WebProfessionals.org
Design and Human Interface
- ACM SIGCHI
- ACM SIGGRAPH Home Page
- Adobe WWW Home Page
- "As We May Think", Vannevar Bush, July 1945, HTML Version
- British Computer Society (BCS) Interaction Specialist Group. A community of IT professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about interaction. Updated
- Gary Perlman's Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI) Development, and Human Factors (HF)
- Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
- MIT Media Lab
- NN/g Nielsen Norman Group Evidence-Based User Experience Research, Training, and Consulting
- Pubcom.com A Consultancy for design and publishing technologies. Publishing experts for over 30 years. Design, training, tutorials, classes, and consulting for all forms of publishing – digital, epub, acrobat, print, web, Section 508 accessibility
- Usability.gov a resource for desiging websites and user interfaces
- User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)
- User Interface Engineering
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Last modified: 26 March 2023
