From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Is Canada Bilingual?

February 26, 2010

For good and bad reasons, the Winter Olympics have been making the news over the past few weeks. One story that went relatively unnoticed is important for the language industry. Newspapers reported that many Canadians were disgruntled at what they saw as the insufficient amount of French being used at the Games. Canada is officially [...]

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Climate Change and the Language Industry

February 25, 2010

Global Lingo was recently awarded ISO 14001, demonstrating that it conformed to environmental policies. This is a significant achievement for the company. The language industry has an important role to play more generally in tackling climate change. International cooperation is the only way to create meaningful and effective policies in this sphere. Governments need to [...]

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Why big corporate are missing a trick banning facebook?

February 24, 2010

In a recent survey of over 1400 Chief Information Officers from blue chip organisations, only around 10% allowed staff full access to social networking sites such as Facebook. A lot has been written about how this frustrates the worker (particularly the younger ones, the so-called Generation Y). This is true, but in this article, I [...]

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Should your company use Social Networking?

February 24, 2010

Social Networking can be a huge time vampire if not done with any purpose or aim in mind. To make Social Network Marketing effective you should look at it just like you would a physical networking opportunity. First, find the right place to network. We focus our attention on Linkedin and Twitter, using both to [...]

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Marian meets a Saint at Confex

February 24, 2010

  Marian Arnold one of our Account Managers met Saint Bob Geldof today at the Confex Show at Earls Court. And being Marian she couldn’t resist a picture!

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Are all Tweets in English? Non, Neite, Nee, Nein

February 24, 2010

Paris-based Semiocast, which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has performed a study of Twitter based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets. Their study shows that around half the tweets are posted in English. The analysis further showed that the top 5 languages used on Twitter are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Malay [...]

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ISO 9001 and 14001 Quality awards for Global Lingo

February 16, 2010

We’re proud to announce that we have been awarded both the ISO 9001 Quality Management and ISO 14001 Environmental Management standards. This means that our internal quality procedures are now fully audited and recognised to international standards; it also ensures that the company’s environmental impact is minimised. “This is much more than just another set [...]

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Outrage at £11 million translation bill

February 12, 2010

In today’s Daily Express (12th February), the Conservative Party are outraged at the cost of translation and interpreting to councils in the UK. The Tories, and I guess the Daily Express too, argue that that money should be spent on teaching people to speak English and not on translators and interpreters. Well, that’s a fine [...]

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The language of the Olympics

February 11, 2010

Yesterday, 10th Feb, I went to an event in Leeds organised by the London 2012 Games to encourage small firms to bid for contracts for the London Olympics in 2012. There were some very good speakers there who spoke with passion and enthusiasm about the games and all the benefits they’ll bring to London and [...]

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How do you get your news?

February 10, 2010

In ancient Palestine, methods for conveying what was happening somewhere else were rudimentary but effective, according to various sources, including the book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible, which contains this exclamation: ‘People of Benjamin, save yourselves, flee from Jerusalem; sound the trumpet in Tekoa, light the beacon on Beth-hakkerem, for calamity looms from the [...]

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