Posts Tagged as: guidelines

Simple Rule #6: If you write flabby copy, even the nicest vendor will gladly mail you a bill for localization that will astound you.

I have said this so many times before: When it comes to localization, keep your content short and sweet. Mainly short. The sweet part is up to you. Why? Because flabby content is expensive to translate. Let’s review the way you pay for translation. Translation companies charged by the word/by the language. For example, you [...]

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8 Simple Rules · Blog · August 12, 2011

8 Simple Rules You Can Apply to Tame Your Content, and Make it Cheaper, Easier, and Faster to Translate

Back in 2002, John Ritter starred in the ABC sitcom, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. According to Paul Hennessy (John Ritter) the rules were: Use your hands on my daughter and you’ll lose them after. You make her cry, I make you cry. Safe sex is a myth. Anything you try will be hazardous [...]

The Content Ecosystem

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the content ecosystem lately. I’ve been considering the entire end-to-end process of organizing, creating, managing, and publishing content for the global marketplace. Here is a definition of the term ecosystem from WordNet at Princeton University: A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms [...]

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Content · Writing for Translation · November 15, 2010

My Guiding Principles

I’ve built my career on a set of principles to which I hold myself 100% accountable. These tenets are how I conduct my professional life, and in large part, how I conduct my personal relationships, too. Here are the things most important to me: Be trustworthy, reliable, and dependable. This is the “ultimate triumvirate”. In [...]