Think Socially; Act Globally
Earlier this year I was asked about how best to align global social media content with global websites. My answer ultimately resulted in this article in Multilingual. When asked by …
Got a question? Ask me on May 1st
I’ll be participating on May 1st at 11 am (Chicago time) in a one-hour Weggchat — responding to questions via Twitter. So if you have anything to ask me about …
Companies are blogging less and that’s a mistake
An interesting study courtesy of the Society for New Communications Research: Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes has been studying corporate communications strategies of the Fortune 500 for the past eight years. Key …
When localizing social content for China, think beyond Facebook and Twitter
So your company is successful on Facebook. And Twitter. And now you want to expand your social reach into China. Well, you can pretty much forget Facebook and Twitter, because …
Five tips for successful, global web surveys
It seems like everyone is running a web survey these days. While I appreciate the importance of asking your website visitors what they think, too many of these surveys are …
Cisco Systems: The Best Global Enterprise Technology Website
We studied 12 enterprise technology websites for the 2013 Web Globalization Report Card. The Web Globalization Report Card is an annual benchmark of how effectively companies internationalize and localize their websites …
The top 25 global websites from the 2013 Web Globalization Report Card
UPDATE: The 2017 Web Globalization Report Card is now available. I’m pleased to announce the top-scoring websites from the 2013 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the ninth annual edition …
Don’t blame phishing on IDNs
I received a friendly email from Twitter awhile back. It was fake. I (stupidly) clicked on the link and was greeted with a login page that looked very much like …
Twitter’s multilingual error page
I’m not sure if Twitter has officially retired the “Fail Whale” landing page that we all grew accustomed to over the years. But I recently came across a Twitter error …
Twitter launches translation crowdsourcing, again
Twitter went live with its newly updated translation center today. This is the second iteration of the platform; it first launched in October 2009, but was closed less than a …
The Twitter Domain Rush: Don’t Get “Twit-jacked”
My previous post on Twitter got me thinking about what other companies had registered language-specific domains for their Twitter accounts. Turns out, most companies haven’t even registered Twitter accounts for …
Twitter and Web Globalization
ICANN recently launched its own Twitter feed. And since ICANN is a global organization, it launched more than one language feed — one in English and one in Spanish. http://twitter.com/icann_en …