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Resources on Multilingual

Bilingual Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Style Guides —Governmentwide resources to make communicating government information to multilingual audiences easier and more consistent.
Checklist of Requirements for Federal Websites and Digital Services —The relevant laws, policies, and regulations for federal agencies.
Dept. of Justice Memo Reaffirming the Mandates of EO 13166 —Executive Order 13 1661 was issued in August of 2000 and this memorandum reaffirms its mandate. The Executive Order has two primary parts: …
Improving Access to Services for People with Limited English Proficiency (EO 13166) —On August 11, 2000, the President signed Executive Order 13166, “Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English …
Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Frequently Mistranslated English Terms —A collection of frequently mistranslated English terms and their equivalent in Spanish.
Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Grammar —Examples and explanations for words, phrases, acronyms, numbers, punctuation, capitalization, symbols, and more used in Spanish grammar.
Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Information Technology Terms —A list of common English information technology terms, and their Spanish translations.
Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Internet Resources —A list of additional Internet resources to help standardize the use of Spanish across government.
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.
Spanish Language Style Guides and Glossaries —Spanish Language Style Guides are resources for government employees, translators, and communications professionals who work with the …
Top 10 Best Practices for Multilingual Websites —Language Digital communications must address the users’ language preference. The use of machine or automatic translations as a sole …

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Survey Translation and the Inclusion of End Users in the Process

Experiences from the U.S. Census Bureau

Laura Godfrey

Feb 27, 2020

The USA.gov’s team launched a new analytics dashboard that shows the top pages and topics that are trending on USA.gov and USA.gov/espanol. This gives agencies a better window into the information the public needs most so they can prioritize that information and make it more accessible to their users. — via USA.gov

Jan 16, 2020

Designing for Translation

Simple planning steps to successfully adapt content into multiple languages

Laura Godfrey

Dec 20, 2018

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Creating Videos in Languages Other Than English

Join the Multilingual and Video Production Pros Communities of Practice for a talk about a video the CFPB created, for a Spanish speaking audience.

Laura Godfrey

Bryce Spivey

Apr 05, 2018

New USAGov Program Aims to Help Agencies Market Within the Federal Government

The Outreach and Marketing team from USAGov helps agencies amplify their key messages through a variety of channels.

Claire Loxsom

Apr 02, 2018

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How to Better Serve Your LEP Audience by Meeting the Federal Requirements

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.

Anna Medina

Laureen Laglagaron

Michael Mulé

Jan 18, 2018

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Responding to a Disaster: How USAGov Helped Shape the Digital Response in Puerto Rico

This interactive talk with a USAGov team member will highlight the digital response in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria.

Jeremy Zilar

Victoria Wales

Jan 09, 2018

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Connect With Your Spanish-Language Audience on Social Media

This event will provide concrete tips and examples of how to reach more Spanish speakers needing and looking for government information through social media

Laura Godfrey

Leilani Martinez

Edgardo Morales

Oct 24, 2017

CFPB Serves up Financial Tips to Seniors

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Meals on Wheels America have created multilingual educational resources about financial scams that target the elderly which can be easily distributed to seniors in the communities they serve, and downloaded or ordered in bulk for free by the general public. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Consumer Education &

Erin Scheithe

Sep 11, 2017

USDA FoodKeeper App Update Expands Content Offerings

The USDA’s multilingual FoodKeeper app has been updated to include three options for receiving food recall updates and expands storage timelines to over 500 products. This post was originally published on the USDA blog. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced new updates to its popular FoodKeeper application that will provide users with new access to

Christopher Bernstein

Sep 07, 2017

Steps Towards SEO: Meta Descriptions on MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is a consumer health website produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), available in both English and Spanish. As part of our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy, we recently added meta descriptions to our health topic pages. A meta description is a short HTML attribute in the head tag that describes the contents of a

Kate Masterton

Katie Chan

Apr 14, 2017

Webinar Recap: Social Media + External Affairs = Outreach Success

Summary: How to leverage your resources to reach Spanish-dominant Hispanics online. A recent DigitalGov University (DGU) webinar provided an introduction to the intersection of two teams with different audiences reaching consensus on goals to maximize insight and outreach effectiveness. Social Media Outreach Goals What does social media outreach success look like? Success is when agencies

Victoria Wales

Nov 17, 2016

FEMA’S Syndicated Content: Digital Assists in Moments of Disaster

I recently interviewed Daniel Kuhns, Web Manager at FEMA, about the site widgets and the FEMA app his organization has been developing. The widgets currently available include: FEMA App, Preparedness, Severe Weather, Private Sector, Kids Fire Safety, and Are you a Disaster Survivor. The FEMA App offers

Christen Geiler

Nov 17, 2016

Social Media Data Deep Dive: Turning Findings into Action

GobiernoUSA, just like USA.gov, is part of a unique effort with a large mission—to guide people to the government information and services they seek. We cover a lot of topics in Spanish via our website, social media platforms, email sends, and contact center. One of the communication channels we focus a lot of attention on

Victoria Wales

Oct 28, 2016

GSA launches new AI, Virtual Reality, and Authentication Programs

Today we’re launching three new initiatives powered by GSA Digital Communities that leap federal agencies ahead on some of the most innovative new capabilities becoming available to our programs — Artificial Intelligence, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and the U.S. Digital Registry. These new Communities and portal are products of inter-agency collaboration and our shared commitment pushing the

Justin Herman

Oct 26, 2016

The Essentials of an Editorial Calendar

Anyone engaged in content marketing or content production probably owns a robust editorial calendar. A calendar that is quickly updated, helps keep deadlines and is flexible can serve as a helpful blueprint of your content activities for the year. At USAGov we cover a lot of topics and partner with many agencies. Having an editorial

Victoria Wales

Oct 24, 2016

The New Vote.gov: Leaner, Faster and Multi-Lingual

One year ago this week, we launched vote.gov (also known as vote.usa.gov). It’s a concise and simple site with a single mission: direct citizens through the voter registration process as quickly as possible. It was created by a joint team of USA.gov staffers and Presidential Innovation Fellows, all of whom work within the General Services

Yoz Grahame

Sep 28, 2016