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Steve Kemper

Steve has spent more than a decade building global brands and helping clients succeed online in the U.S. and abroad. A seasoned online business strategist and marketer, Steve has significant experience in the technology, entertainment, health care, publishing and travel & tourism industries, among others. In addition to writing magazine articles and white papers about international marketing and technology trends, Steve addresses audiences around the country, from the Japan Society of New York to the Software Association of Oregon. Steve is a citizen of the world, with a focus on Asia, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon where he works for ISITE Design, a global agency serving clients from offices in Portland, Boston, Dallas.

Machine Translation: Electric Car of the Language Services Industry?

The Obama Administration recently challenged the language services industry to achieve “automatic, highly accurate and real-time translation between the major languages of the world.”
It was a bold but reasonable statement, and one that directly challenges human translators and multilingual content professionals, whose work millions of people depend on to eliminate global language barriers. It has [...]

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In CMS agency search, are you commodity shopper or strategic investor?

The web content management consulting game can be rough and tumble for both the CMS service provider and client.  Speaking from an agency perspective, we see two very different types of organizations seeking CMS services – let’s call them the commodity shopper and the strategic investor.
If it sounds as if it’s all about price, it’s [...]

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The increasing importance of global content accessibility

“For the the Internet to fulfill its most ambitious promises,
we need to recognize translation as one of the core challenges to an open,
shared and collectively governed Internet. Many of us share a vision of the
Internet as a place where the good ideas of any person in any country can
influence thought and opinion around the world. [...]

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The global language mashup: Blurring linguistic lines in the age of social media

Communication among the world’s ever more interconnected and interdependent citizens is no longer limited and mediated by the number of people who have the time and talent to learn multiple languages. Just as it is no longer necessary to board a plane in order to immerse yourself in another language and culture, it is growing [...]

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The global CMS reality

The world is more interconnected every day — a fact that has important implications for web content management.
Almost a quarter of the world's population-1.5bn people-will use the internet regularly in 2009. Half of them will make online purchases. A further 400m people will join the online world by 2012. – The World in 2009, The [...]

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