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Technology ssociations, Organizations, and Societies

The author makes no assertions about the benefits or usefulness of any of the links below. They were just included to make it easier to find them again!

• Web Women On-line
• User Groups
• Other Organizations
• Conferences and Expos

Web Women On-Line

• DC Web Women
• Webgrrls International

User Groups

• Capital PC Users Group, also has a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Central Maryland ASP Professionals (CMAP)
• Columbia Area Linux Users Group
• DC Palm Users Group
• DC Perl Mongers
• FrameUsers.com (Adobe FrameMaker)
• Maryland Cold Fusion User's Group
• Mid-Atlantic Oracle Professionals
• National Capital Amiga Users Group
• Virginia Macintosh Users Group (VMUG)
• Washington Area Computer User Group, VA
• Washington Area Midrange Users Group
• XML User's Group

Other Organizations

• American Council for Technology (ACT)
• American Management Association
• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• American Woman's Economic Development Corporation (AWED)
• Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM)
• Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
  • Association for Information and Image Management, National Chapter
• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
• Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
  • Association for Women in Computing - Baltimore Chapter
• Center for Information Policy (University of MD)
• Center for Technology in Government, part of the University of New York Albany.
• CERT, which researches system vulnerabilities
• Computing Research Association, association for North American academic departments of computer science and related fields
  • Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
• Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA)
• Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
• Data Management Association for the National Capital Region (DAMA-NCR)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Federal ASP.Net User's Group
• Freelancers Union
• Graphic Artist Guild
• HTML Writers Guild
• Human-Computer Interaction Resource Network (HCIRN)
• International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER)
• International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
  • International Council on Systems Engineering, Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter
• International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
  • Women in Game Development SIG
• International Virtual Assistant Association (IVAA)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Internet Society
• Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)
• Security Focus, "the largest community of security professionals anywhere"
• Society for Technical Communication (STC)
  • Society for Technical Communication Washington DC Chapter
• Specialty Graphic Image Association (SGIA)
• Systers
• UMBC Center for Women and Information Technology
• Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
  • Usability Professionals Association, Washington DC Chapter
• W3 Consortium (W3C)
• Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA)
• Web Standards Project (WaSP)
• Women for Hire
• Women in Information Technology (WITI)
• WorldWIT
  • WorldWIT DC Metro Area Chapter

Conferences and Expos

• EduWeb Conference
  • EduWeb Buzz (blog)
• FedWeb
• FOSE
• Women for Hire