Information Engineering Links

Collecting links is like making "stone soup": Here's the fire, the kettle, water, and a handful of stones to get started--please throw in a few additional veggies--some carrots, some celery--to improve the broth's flavor. Over time, we get soup.

If you have useful links in these areas, send them to me (kate@blueneptune.com) and I'll add them!

Bookstores

• Computer Literacy Bookshops Home Page
• Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore.

Writing Resources

Writing Reference Resources and Links

Interesting links to other pages of interesting links.

• Adobe: Around the Net
• Grammar Hotline Directory 1997
• The Inkspot: Writer's Reference Desk
• The Inkspot: Resources for Science and Technical Writers
• Library of Congress Home Page
• Your Mining Company Guide to Technical Writing
• ACM SIGDOC'97 Web Style Guides and Resources
• STC TechComm Resources
• The Text Doctor: Resources
• UPA: Resources
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
• Mirriam-Webster
• Ultimate Electronic Publishing Resource

Intro to Searching (thanks, Roz)

• CNET Features- Digital Life - The 7 habits of highly efficient surfers, plus 3 for total control freaks
• CNET fearutes - Digital Life - Can you trust your search engine?
• CNET Reviews - Comparative Reviews - Search engine shoot-out: top engines compared
• Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines

More to come

Graphics Resources

• The WDVL: The Virtual Library of WWW Development: Images_and_Icons
  --Good place to start.
• Big collections of stuff
  • Net-User
  • The Graphic Station
  • IconBAZAAR
• Color palettes and tests
  • ColorCenter
    --Color Palette Tester. Check background color and link color.
  • Lynda's Homegurrlpage
    --Color Palette Info
  • HTML Color Helper
• Single-focus or odd-speciality collections
  • The Online Bonsai Icon Collection
    --Bonsai
  • Mermaid's Rest Graphics
    --Silly nautical; great source for my future "virtual tidepool"
  • The Icon Pavilion : Welcome
    --Interesting, but strange

Professional Organizations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• ACM Home Page
• ACM SF Bay Area Chapter
• ACM Special Interest Groups
• ACM Special Interest Group Directory
• SIGCHI-Computer-Human Interface
• SIGCHI
• SF Bay Area BayCHI
• SIGDOC-Systems Documentation
• SIGGRAPH-Computer Grahics
• SIGGRAPH
• Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH
• San Francisco SIGGRAPH

IEEE Professional Communication Society

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Home Page
• IEEE-PCS Home Page

Society for Technical Communication

• Society for Technical Communication (STC) Home Page
• Special Interest Groups
• Region 8
• Silicon Valley Chapter - STC Home Page
• Other Local Chapters
• Berkeley Chapter
• East Bay Chapter
• North Bay Chapter, Northern CA, USA
• Sacramento Chapter
• San Francisco Chapter

Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)

• UPA Home Page

Education Resources (Bay Area)

Universities, colleges, junior colleges, museums

Local education programs that provide extension courses, classes nights and weekends, and distance learning about writing or computer topics.

• UC-Santa Cruz Extension
• UC Berkeley Extension
• Stanford University Programs
• Stanford University Alumni Org Extension Classes
• Stanford: Distance Learning
  --High-level page that gets you a list of distance learning programs
• Stanford Center for Professional Development
• SCPE: Continuing Engineering Education
  --Info about Stanford IInstructional Television
• San Jose State University
• Foothill-DeAnza District Home Page
• Foothill-DeAnza Short Courses
• DeAnza College Distance Learning Homepage
• Foothill College Online Courses (Foothill Global Access)
• San Mateo County Community College District
• California Academy of Sciences Adult Education

Bay Area PBS television stations

• Channel 9/San Francisco
• Channel 54/San Jose
• Channel 60/College of San Mateo
• PBS Online