Globalization Blog
Third in a series of interviews with sponsors of Gilbane’s 2009 study on Multilingual Product Content: Transforming Traditional Practices into Global Content Value Chains.We spoke with Kelli Kohout, global marketing manager for Jonckers Translation & Engineering. Jonckers is a global provider of localization, translation, (Read More)
Globalization Blog
Fourth in a series of interviews with sponsors of Gilbane’s 2009 study on Multilingual Product Content: Transforming Traditional Practices into Global Content Value Chains. We spoke with Karl Darr, an independent consultant working with STAR Group. STAR Group is a leader in information management, localization, internation (Read More)
Fairer Globalization
I just got back from a presentation at the United Nations of a new manifesto on advancing a "Global Economic Ethic" by the UN Global Compact, the Swiss Government, Novartis Foundation, and the Global Ethic Foundation. Swiss Ambassador Peter Maurer, UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell, philosopher Hans Kung, econ (Read More)
Official Google Blog
Today, we've added 285 new languages to Google Translator Toolkit, bringing the total number of languages supported by this product to 345 — and making it possible to translate between 10,664 language pairs. Google Translator Toolkit is a language translation service for professional and amateur translators that builds on G (Read More)
Financial Times
Google has unveiled new tools to allow users to see what information the internet company is keeping them in an attempt to alleviate the concerns of privacy campaigners. (Read More)
The Global Small Business Blog
I wrote this article for Idea Hub: American Express OPEN Forum. See if it's helpful in offering you fresh ideas on how to take your SMB to the next level.5 Actionsfor Double-DigitBusiness GrowthOne action:Move into new markets. Can you build or acquire additional capabilities on an as-needed basis? These new markets can (Read More)
The Economist: News analysis and views
More hungry peopleTHE economic crisis is having a big impact on those already struggling to survive. The number of chronically hungry people in the world will rise from 913m in 2008 to 1.02 billion this year, a sixth of the global population, says the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in its annual report on food insec (Read More)
Submitted by Ingenesist:
Social Media is emerging as an astonishing force in cooperation by uniting communities and people of diverse and complementary interests, affinities, and actions. Social media works in a new dimension: It is a “cultural dimensions” where the opponent is opposition itself.Social media teaches cooperation. The more we know (Read More)
Submitted by Ingenesist:
Schumacher wrote that western economics measures “standard of living” by “consumption” and assumes a person who consumes more is better off than one who consumes less. He also discusses the fact that employers consider their workers to be an “expense” to be reduced as much as possible. He questioned the theory that some am (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from YouTube:
{VIDEO} President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden lunch together at least once a week, but usually they eat in the White House. Today, they took a short drive to Virginia to a small burger joint called Ray's Hell Burger. - 05/05/09. (Read More)
Rising Voices
It is hard to imagine a place more difficult to keep a blog than a country that just barely has an electric grid. But a few ambitious, aspiring Liberian journalists are working hard to join their colleagues from the DR of Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria on the frontiers of African new media. (Read More)
The Global Small Business Blog
Even emerging markets are getting hit with the global downdraft. What's a business owner to do? Prepare yourself and your business for the second half of this year by learning everything there is to know about going global.My next post for OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN blog is due out this Friday and it's on how to (Read More)
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About Amadou M.
Amadou M. Sall
St-Louis, SL, Senegal
Company :
Amsall Communications
Job title :
Managing Director
Industry :
Consulting
"The Cross-cultural Connector", translator, strategic crosscultural communication/marketing coach and consultant, web publisher, social media addict, global mindset advocate...