From the category archives:

Globalization

As the world gets more interconnected, web content management systems increasingly need to drive complex global websites.

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 [...]

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Two Years On: Still Puncturing Myths & Taking Names

We started the CMS Myth two years ago, riding into the Boston Gilbane Content Management Conference wearing our white hats, guns blazing (sort of), and raising the alarm against an epidemic of poorly planned and ultimately failed web content management projects. That’s pretty much been our focus for the past 24 months: take the combined [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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