Think Big; Think Global
I was honored to participate in a Wegginar with Laurel and Laura of Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global. I spent about an hour focusing on US small businesses and tips for …
Events
Think Big. Think Global on June 1st
I’m pleased to be joining Laurel Delaney and the team at WEGG on June 1st for an hour focused on web globalization best practices and insights for small businesses. Here’s …
Singles Day: The world’s largest shopping day
As I mentioned a few days ago, Singles Day arrived well before the official start: 11/11. But now that it has officially arrived, a thought a few screen shots would …
Just one week until Lilt Ascend 2021; Here’s why to attend:
A sponsored blog post from Lilt. These days, with more and more customer interactions moving online, a lot of important discussions are happening in the localization industry. As companies are …
Upgrade your Global Customer Experience strategy at Lilt Ascend, October 6-7
LILT, a Global by Design sponsor, is hosting the next edition of its popular Ascend conference on October 6-7. The event is designed to help you reach the 87% of …
Lead the World to Your Website on July 27th
A localized website is of little value if local users cannot find it. And yet many global websites continue to make visual and technical mistakes that keep local websites effectively …
Websites celebrate Chinese New Year: The Year of the Ox
This has become a bit of an annual tradition for me, taking a virtual tour of a number of global brands, seeing how they celebrate Lunar New Year (牛年), particularly …
Miller Lite launches a Super Bowl ad that blends lengthy URLs with localization
Finally, a Super Bowl ad that a web localization geek can get excited about. This Sunday, Miller Lite will run an ad featuring a painfully long URL that viewers must …
The Art of the Global Gateway at LocWorld 43
Join me this Thursday for a virtual presentation on The Art of the Global Gateway: Best Practices in Global Navigation for Websites. The global gateway is the initial point of …
Join me online at Translating Europe 2020
I’m pleased to be participating virtually at the 2020 Translating Europe Forum. I’ll be presenting on Friday, November 6 on “Translating for digital businesses: multilingualism as a factor for business …
What’s new (and coming) from Duolingo…
With all events going virtual, I find I have so much less time these days. Previously, I would just pick a small number of events to travel to and ignore …
Learn localization best practices at Lilt Ascend
My thanks to Lilt for sponsoring Global by Design. Here are details on their upcoming event this week. I plan to attend… Your peers are sharing their localization secrets at …
Reinventing the Translation Industry: Notes from the TAUS conference
I recently participated in the TAUS event Reinventing the Translation Industry. The focus of the event was on imagining the translation industry a year from now, in light of our global …
Join me in reinventing the translation industry
I’m happy to be participating in the upcoming TAUS event: Reinventing the Translation Industry. This virtual event, taking place June 8-18th, poses the question: What will be the state of …
Google’s global trends 2019
For anyone interested in a truly global (and local) view of the world’s Internet users, I recommend spending a few minutes here. At a global level, it’s revealing to see …