On June 5 of this year we hosted colloquium on collaborative translation in Palo Alto where several of the Facebook language managers spoke about their approach to community translation. When casual observers comment about how getting the users to translate sounds like good business, they are alluding to the bit about it being wink-wink-nudge-nudge “free.” […]

This year’s U.S. election campaign has begun echoing the core economic theme from Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 run for the presidency — “it’s the economy, stupid.” Meanwhile, second-quarter results from major American companies underscore our advice on how to recession-proof your business — seek opportunity abroad while your economy is in the doldrums.

Are you missing out on international sales because you cannot accept the payment options that your global customers want to use? We’ve found that people won’t buy what they don’t understand. The corollary is that they won’t buy what they can’t pay for. No, this isn’t about tight credit, but rather the ability of people […]

While Wim Elfrink makes headlines as Cisco’s chief globalization officer and developing human capital around the globe, Brian Shorey and his team have the more mundane task of globalizing the company’s internal systems. Last week, Cisco held a vendor-palooza to which program manager Richard Faubert invited language service provider partners (and us) to learn about […]