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4 reasons why crowd sourcing translation is a bad idea for Pinterest

May 11, 2012
4 reasons why crowd sourcing translation is a bad idea for Pinterest

More and more social media websites are discovering that having translations on their sites is vital to their expansion. The new darling of social media, Pinterest, recently blogged that they wanted to crowd source translations of their site. While we of course applaud Pinterest for actively looking to translate their site, so that it can [...]

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Thoughts of an Italian translation intern

May 3, 2012
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Simone Zanetti spent three months with Global Lingo as a foreign student intern. On his last day, Simone left us with an overview of his time with us and what he’d picked up about English culture. If you’d like to find out more about our translation internship programme read the job description and contact us [...]

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Korean Midsummer Night’s Dream shows off the glory of translation

May 2, 2012
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As part of the Cultural Olympiad, Shakespeare’s Globe are performing 37 plays in 37 languages. Kerry Lambeth author of the Globe to Globe Shakespeare blog went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Korean, and tells us what it was like to experience the Bard in another language. A pig, rather than a bottom. Twins, [...]

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Singapore – one of the best places in the world to work

May 2, 2012
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Singapore is now the fourth most desirable place to work and live in the world according to a new survey by recruitment firm Hydrogen and business school ESCP Europe. One of the main reasons cited is the increase in multinational companies moving into Singapore over the past decade. Singapore is increasingly becoming the Silicon Valley [...]

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Roy Hodgson a truly multilingual England Manager

May 2, 2012
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Regardless of your thoughts about the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England Manager over Harry Rednapp, you have to take into account one skill Roy has over most Football Managers. He’s Multilingual. According to his Wikipedia page, Roy Hodgson can speak five languages (including his native English)  Norwegian, Swedish, German and Italian as well as [...]

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How long do you wait for your minutes? – Quick poll

April 27, 2012
How long do you wait for your minutes?

Having your minutes produced quickly and accurately can mean the difference between profit and loss. Is your competition getting the upper hand? We’re interested to find out just how long businesses wait to get hold of vital information which means they can react quicker than their competition. Loading…

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New Google update will affect translated sites too

April 25, 2012
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Matt Cutts announced another step towards making Google’s search results much more relevant. The search engines new update will clamp down on sites who stuff their pages with webspam in order to gain rankings for keywords and phrases. These tactics can involve: Keyword stuffing – filling a page full of the words they want to [...]

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Making a SPLASH with the students at Kirklees

April 20, 2012
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I see a lot of presentations. This week was particularly presentation heavy, as I ran two Bettakultcha events of my own, and I was also fortunate to be asked to take part in SPLASH, an event run by Kirklees College which encourages college students to learn active business skills. The event was a cross between [...]

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Simon Walker – Using ‘Social Feedback’ technology to drive performance

March 16, 2012

On 2nd March 2012 Simon Walker, Global Lingo’s Non-Exectutive Director, talked to the assembled audience at TEDx Portsmouth about how using social feedback technology can drive performance. Simon is also Director at my360plus an online 360° feedback system for business. This is a great talk by Simon, it’s well worth a few minutes to sit and [...]

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Outsourcing minute taking will save you money

March 15, 2012
Outsourcing minute taking will save you money

For several years I worked at various marketing agencies. After each client meeting, as the account manager I would have to type up the dreaded contact report. All the agency staff hated this necessary evil. The rule in these agencies was that these reports had to be with the client within 48 hours of the [...]

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