Using social media in foreign languages

The more people you can reach out to through social media networks, the better. That’s where foreign languages come in.I just ran across an article entitled “Secrets to Social Media Success in Foreign Languages.” (The link will be include…

Our top three language and culture posts of 2011

In the last of a 3-blog series, we’ll pull up a few of our most interesting posts from our “Language and Culture” blog.As a language service provider, the heart of our business is, of course, languages. And whether we are working in translation, …

Language Translation – Language Links for October 2011…

…or the one where I create a plan to catch up with some of the interesting language-related stories that I wasn’t able to get to over the past month.I’ve been blogging for nearly 7 years now, and I would say that actually writing a blog post …

Language Translation – Competitive translation: a new spectator sport?

London’s British Museum is planning an event that will feature two translators “going head to head.”As part of its third annual World Literature Weekend, the British Museum in London is planning a celebration of foreign literature. The 3-day fest…

AT&T – Clever Global Marketing

One of the Relationship Managers in our UK office came across a clever bit of global marketing from the people at AT&T.
US Consumers actually voted the campaign as “America’s Favorite Magazine Ad” in a  contest sponsored by Magazine Publishers of America back in 2009.  In the “Hands” campaign, created by BBDO, human hands are intricately […]

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Revolution 2.0 and the Multilingual Web

The Egyptian Revolution has brought to the forefront the role of social media in the modern world. Debate continues over the role websites such as Facebook and Twitter played in the movement in Egypt; however to what extent these websites played a role in the revolution is not important. What is important is that they […]

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