Re: Ensuring that your technical communication is respectful towards other cultures

["CapDev Communications" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You might contact the LISA Forum, an organization dedicated to localization.
I have attended one of their forums and perused their newsletters.

www.lisa.org

Pat


On 10/10/07, Kelly Keck <kkeck -at- imagine-one -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Hello, all,
>
> My company, a government contractor that develops distance learning
> software, has recently obtained a contract to develop training that will
> be
> provided to members of the Pakistan Navy.
>
> Although my main role on the project will be to produce the documentation
> and the on-line help system, I've also been assigned to do background
> research on Pakistani culture, to give the team a better understanding of
> our audience and to help make sure we don't inadvertently offend anyone.
> And, of course, I'll want to keep that information in mind when I develop
> the help system and any user documentation.
>
> I've done some basic background reading, but I'd welcome any tips from
> TECHWR-L members, either of resources that are worth checking out or of
> specific suggestions on providing training to a Pakistani audience.  I'd
> also be interested in general discussion of how technical communicators
> can
> be sensitive to differences between their own culture and their
> audience's.
>
>
> Thanks very much!
> Kelly Keck
> Imagine One Technology & Management
> Documentation Specialist
> (301) 866-4098, ext. 108
> kkeck -at- imagine-one -dot- com
>
>
>
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