Localization as we know it The most obvious area of localization and the one that most organizations are familiar with is the production aspect of localization. Traditionally companies accept the costs of localization as a part of doing global business. At first there wasn’t much thought to strategy and ROI […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Working in a Silo: One of the most difficult challenges of localization is working with a bunch of siloed teams. Many times this happens by accident. A company slowly develops localization needs and solutions across product or engineering teams and soon a company has hundreds of ways of doing localization […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about a field that doesn’t exist. The reason is because I spent 7 years of my life as a practitioner in this non-existent field. I’m calling the field Whole Enterprise Localization Design, but as I better formulate the idea, I may need to change […]
Almost 8 years ago I started this blog with a discussion of copyright law. My goal was to catch the eye of Kindle’s Digital publishing group so I could get hired at Amazon. It didn’t work. I did eventually got hired but it had nothing to do with the […]
After seven and a half years at Amazon I’ve recently left. At Amazon I purposely lived in the shadows because the rules around publicizing our work were stringent. But now I plan to think and write as much as possible to make up for the last 7 years of silence. […]
When I first realized I had found a new career (2010) I wrote this article on becoming a localization project manager. I’d already been an LPM for 4 years without really realizing it was a profession. The LPM article is really about how to apply project management skills to the […]