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ASTD EPSS Learning Community
The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) Electronic Performance Support Systems Learning Community. The site has links to articles and a bibliography of EPSS articles that appeared in training magazines.

Center for Instructional Technology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The mission of the Center for Instructional Technology is to assist UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and graduate assistants in achieving their instructional, research and other professional objectives by providing support for commonly used and emerging technologies. It includes a performance support resource section.

EPSS World
This site was founded by EPSS thought leader Ashok Banerji.  It contains EPSS resources in a growing knowledge base.  EPSS World includes membership opportunities.

Gery and Associates  
Gloria Gery, thought leader and founder of the EPSS field,  specializes in performance centered software design and in developing and implementing interactive training and performance support systems. Her emphasis is in strategy development and in creating the necessary managerial approaches. In addition, she assists in developing creative interface and program structures to assure learning and guarantee performance.  Her site includes references, books, articles, presentations, and events.

Interactive Task Support Systems
This is a Finish site that contains a description of the design considerations for an shop floor EPSS.

Interface Interest and Research Group (IIRG)
Web site: IIRG! is a group of instructional designers interested in practical application of research to the design of instructional and performance support software. 

Learning and Performance Support Laboratory (LPSL)
This is a research and development center located in the College of Education at The University of Georgia.

Online Learning Conference, with Performance Support Track
Check this site for information about previous and upcoming Online Learning Conferences, which feature a Performance Support track.

Project TREE
Project Tree is a joint effort of the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Student Services and Exceptional Education and the Florida State University's Center for Educational Technology. The goal of the project is to design, develop, test, implement, and disseminate an electronic performance support system for instructional staff in Varying Exceptionalities classes in Florida's public school system.

Software Design Smorgasbord
According the webmaster Craig Marion, "This site is mostly about improving the usability of software through better design. A key concept is performance-centered design: creating software that's as close to transparent as possible to its intended users and that enables them to do whatever it is they need to do as efficiently as possible."