Can Google Translate Grasp Cultural Nuances?

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In the following article, web translation expert Jen Murphy, Director of Marketing at Eriksen Translations, talks about Google Translate, how to work with ever-changing web content, what resources to look at for web globalization help, and how her company performed a great localization project while working with Skype.

Reach Multilingual Markets:  Four Questions, Answered

Today in Global Small Business: Why a Small International Business Is An Oxymoron

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Tell UPS, Metro Chicago Exports and JPMorgan Chase how and why you want to go global and you may win BIG prizes (deadline is 9/16/16). 
• Going international requires three main drivers and many have what it takes.
• Game changers share their secrets to growing a global business.
• Reach multilingual markets: create content, develop effective partnerships, and utilize translation technology (webinar 8/24 at 11:00 a.m. Central and no charge; Laurel Delaney will be moderating it).
• How a company transformed sourcing capabilities and improved its profitability.
• Learn why a small international business is an oxymoron that is increasingly common.

Today in Global Small Business: Global Movement from Tree Change Dolls

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Reach Multilingual Markets: Create Content, Develop Effective Partnerships, and Utilize Translation Technology (webinar -- no charge on 8/24).
• Smart strategies for working with overseas clients.
• Brexit implications for SMEs:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• Research.  Go.  Decide.  Three key steps to taking your business global.
• UPS warns of 'global head winds' despite growth in e-commerce.
• A global movement on second-hand dolls from Tree Change Dolls.