Community Research Explores Ways To Improve Access To Multilingual Content
A group from the Multilingual Community noticed inconsistencies in access to languages other than English across government websites, and have started working on a solution.
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Resources on Multilingual Community of Practice
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Multilingual Huddle: Designing for Translation
In this webinar, Laura Godfrey and Fedora Braverman share tips for translating content in the digital context.
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Bilingual Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Style Guides
Multilingual resources to standardize the use of various languages across government.
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Top 10 Best Practices for Multilingual Websites
Ten tips for creating and managing multilingual government websites.
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Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Spanish Health Care Terms in the United States
A list of common English health care and medical terms, and their Spanish translations.
News and Events on Multilingual Community of Practice
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10x Announces 25 New Projects Launching This Fiscal Year
Starting with a pool of nearly 200 ideas, 10x is excited to announce new projects to be funded at the Phase One Investigation level for FY22. Here’s how we got there, some observations made, and next steps.
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10 Tips to Create, Maintain, and Present Non-English Digital Content: A Q&A with Michael Mulé
This question and answer session for our webinar, Language Connections: Tips to Create, Maintain, and Present Non-English Digital Content, can help you improve access to your multilingual digital content.
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Language Connections: Tips to Create, Maintain, and Present Non-English Digital Content
Tips to help you improve access to your non-English digital content.
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2022
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Webinar Recap: How To Best Connect With Your Spanish-speaking Audience During an Emergency
In this panel discussion, experts from different agencies shared how they’ve used social media to reach Hispanic audiences during emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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USAGov en Español Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Since 2003, one program in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has been leading the way in which the government serves the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. That program is USAGov en Español, the official guide to government information and services in Spanish.
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6 Ways Translation Glossaries Help Agencies Succeed In Sharing Information
Learn how multilingual glossaries set your content translations up for success by maintaining consistency and lightening the workload for future translations.
In this talk, we’ll focus on content creation and how accessibility supports multilingual work.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community of Practice
2020
How the Census Bureau provided language assistance in 59 non-English languages for the 2020 Census.
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2020
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How USAGov en Español Uses Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Meet the Needs of Its Audience
In this workshop, we will show how USAGov en Español collects and analyzes data from across several social media channels and the USAGov Contact Center to design and improve content and outreach strategies.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community of Practice
2020
This talk will offer insights and tips on how to best design and translate surveys and other government materials aimed at reaching non-English speaking members of the public.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community
2020
An increase in demand for multilingual digital content, shrinking budgets, and rising translation costs have impacted federal agencies trying to offer information and services in languages other than English. Learn how the National Service Language Corps (NLSC) can help.
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2019
With the sharp improvement in machine translation quality, the variety of government use cases for this technology has evolved.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community of Practice
2019
Join the Multilingual and Video Production Pros Communities of Practice for a talk about a video the CFPB created, for a Spanish speaking audience.
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2018
Learn about your legal obligations to limited English proficient individuals (LEP) as a federal, state, or local government agency. We’ll provide an overview of national origin discrimination and offer practical tips for overcoming language barriers and language access program planning.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community of Practice
2018
This event will provide concrete tips and examples of how to reach more Spanish speakers needing and looking for government information through social media
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Multilingual Community of Practice
2017
