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If so, which ones and what benefits do you feel you get from them?
Thanks in advance!
Americans For Computer Privacy - This is the organization to take a look at if you are interested in privacy matters.
[computerprivacy.org...]
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) - One of the oldest organization of all. This group is huge and has so many benefits that it's impossible to list them here. It can be highly technical, and tends towards the theory and practice of computing. They have dozens of publications and for about a hundred bucks you get access to a huge online library of white papers and technical works.
[acm.org...]
Better Ethics Online (BEO) - A great group all about the ethics of the online world. They have several lists of known spamming email addresses which can be used in filtering software.
[actionsites.com...]
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - Want to learn about spam and how to prevent it? This is a great organization to join and join the fight.
[cauce.org...]
Cyber Crew - A group of volunteers which covers just about everything on the internet. More of a users group than anything else.
[cyber-crew.com...]
HTML Writer's Guide - This organization has lots of good web-based courses and a certification program (Certified Web Professional). This group (which has merged with the International Webmasters association) has many other great features. Yearly members is about fifty bucks, and this gets you the courses at half price.
[iwanet.org...]
IEEE - One of the very largest and oldest computer societies. In fact, computers are only a portion of what this organization offers. Thousands of papers are available online to members, and dozens of publications are published. This group tends to be highly technical and very in-depth.
[ieee.org...]
Internet Engineering Task Force - Interested in helping the internet as a whole? This group helps maintain the structure and operation of the entire internet. This group is perhaps second in importance (and it could be classified as first according to some) to the W3C. They also archive and maintain RFC's, which are the documents which describe the protocols and standards of all of the internet.
[ietf.org...]
Internet Society - Another huge organization dedicated to helping internet professionals. A large number of benefits are available.
[isoc.org...]
Internet Engineering Task Force - Interested in helping the internet as a whole? This group helps maintain the structure and operation of the entire internet. This group is perhaps second in importance (and it could be classified as first according to some) to the W3C. They also archive and maintain RFC's, which are the documents which describe the protocols and standards of all of the internet.
[ietf.org...]
Paint Shop Pro Users Group (PSPUG) - If you use Paint Shop Pro (one of the best graphics editors around), then this group is essential.
[pspug.org...]
Web Master World - Want to learn about the web from professionals who actually know what they are doing, with a strong emphasis on promotion (especially using search engines)? If so, visit this forum, lurk for a while, then start posting your own opinions, experiences and questions.
[webmasterworld.com...]
World Of Webrings - A group dedicated to promoting all of the webring systems. If you want to find out about webrings, this is one of the best places to start.
[worldofwebrings.org...]
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - One of the heavyweight groups of the web. These people define many of the standards, including HTTP, HTML and XHTML. This is the best place to begin looking for information about web related specifications and documents.
[w3.org...]
Richard Lowe
(Note: These are the URLs for these various organizations. I have no affiliation with any of them, other than being a normal member. If the moderators deem this to be a violation of the TOS, then please feel free to edit out the URLs).
OK - now I see. The above is for organisations, this page [isoc.org] is for free individual membership.
