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Webinar: Best Practices for Video Translation
- by Seiya Vogt
- April 11, 2013
Last month we announced our partnership with 3Play Media, the video caption and transcription specialists. Today we want to share a webinar we co-hosted with 3Play Media on the Best Practices for Video Translation. This webinar covers how to translate your video, engage with an international audience, and some video SEO strategies. For more detail [...]
Three Free White Papers to Help You Go Global
- by Robert Laing
- March 6, 2013
We’re big fans of companies who decide to go global. But we’ll never kid you that it’s a piece of cake. We work with a large number of mid-size businesses and enterprises, who are taking the leap of international expansion for the first time. Some do great, others have difficulties as they expand across borders. [...]
Gengo ports GitHub Survivor to JIRA
- by Shawn Smith
- February 28, 2013
At Gengo, we’re passionate about open source as well as squashing bugs in our codebase. That’s why when we read about the 99designs project, GitHub Survivor, we knew our engineers had to have it. The problem was we use Atlassian JIRA to track our issues, and GitHub Survivor was designed for GitHub issues. But that [...]
How to Create a Japanese Mascot
- by Amy Seaman
- November 2, 2011
This is the second section of a two-part series in which we discuss the benefits of having a Japanese mascot and how to create your own. The first part was published last week and is here. Last week, we discussed how mascots can help to promote a brand’s image in Japan and how they can be [...]
Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name
- by Amy Seaman
- September 13, 2011
What’s in a name? If you’re in China — the world’s second largest economy — a lot. In a country where each character carries its own unique meaning, the characters used to transliterate a company’s name can make or break it. In order for an international company to successfully break into the competitive Chinese market, [...]
Why Your Startup Needs a Visual Dashboard
- by Robert Laing
- February 15, 2011
This post will tell you why you need to start visual reporting for your startup, and how to go about putting together a basic dashboard. You already know this: What gets measured, gets done. You already know this too: Humans instinctively respond to visual cues So do this: Use visual dashboards for your startup I’m going to start [...]