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Jan 1, 2023 • 24min
Building a Multilingual SEO Program | December 2022
In her latest piece for MultiLingual magazine, Nataly Kelly talks to colleague Karolina Bujalska-Exner, senior marketing manager of international SEO at HubSpot, to gain some insights into how companies can develop an SEO strategy as they expand into new markets abroad.

Jan 1, 2023 • 12min
How to Leverage a Multilingual Team for Maximum Success | December 2022
While many business people might see a multilingual team as a challenge to overcome, Sophie Jackson thinks it’s the opposite — to her (and many others in our industry) it’s an asset. Here’s why.

Jan 1, 2023 • 6min
LangOps: The Vision and The Reality | December 2022
In this piece, Nimdzi Insights co-founder Renato Beninatto dissects the concept of LangOps, identifying a handful of challenges he foresees for the term as it begins to catch on both within and without the language industry.

Jan 1, 2023 • 11min
The Presentation of Novelty for the Common Good: A critical review of the Global Language Operations concept | December 2022
In this piece, Dr. Miguel Cerna of Verve Translations does a point-by-point analysis of a previous MultiLingual article on LangOps, providing critiques and commentaries on whether or not it’s actually “here to stay” as many others in the magazine have argued.

Jan 1, 2023 • 11min
How Do You Localize a Font? A conversation with Gerry Leonidas | December 2022
In the latest installment of his column “The Red List,” Tim Brookes has a candid and fascinating conversation with Gerry Leonidas, a professor in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading. The two discuss font creation and the challenges of localizing a font for a specific locale.

Jan 1, 2023 • 10min
Life Sciences 2022: A year in review | December 2022
In the last installment of The Lab for the year, columnist Mark Shriner takes a look at the past year and predicts some trends in the field of life sciences for the coming year. Spoiler alert: Things are looking good for localization folks working in life sciences.

Jan 1, 2023 • 12min
On the Origin of LangOps: The evolution of the localization roadmap | December 2022
The phrase “LangOps” has received quite a bit of buzz lately, but where did it really come from? In this piece, MultiLingual staff writer Andrew Warner takes a look at the phrases’s origins and how it fits into the evolution of the localization industry.

Jan 1, 2023 • 9min
The Pen and the Voice: Language and the voyage of Magellan | December 2022
In this column, KUDO co-founder and chief language officer Ewandro Magalhães tells the tale of Enrique — an enslaved person who served as Ferdinand Magellan’s interpreter in his quest to circumnavigate the world.

Jan 1, 2023 • 21min
LangOps: Pipe Dream, LSP´s Heaven or Just a New Hashtag? | December 2022
Sometimes things become reality if you only put the right label on it — in this piece, LT-Innovate board member Arthur Wetzel sets out to determine just what exactly LangOps means, and whether or not “LangOps” is the right label for it.

Jan 1, 2023 • 16min
The LangOps Paradigm: Perceptions of machine translation within the translation industry | December 2022
After attending GALA 2022 this past April, Riteba McCallum was inspired to conduct a survey to determine just how useful professional translators think machine translation is in conducting their day-to-day tasks. Here, she shares the findings of her survey and what she thinks they might mean for the industry.