Published Works
BizWonk is renowned for expertise in the field of international product development, and its staff is frequently published in a variety of venues.
Books
Translating Into Success
Vice President and International Wonk Suzanne Topping authored a chapter / case study in the book Translating Into Success; Cutting-edge Strategies for Going Multilingual in a Global Age, which was published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2000. The book presents case studies that illustrate state-of-the-art approaches to language management.
Business Strategies magazine reviewed Translating Into Success in their April 2005 issues: http://www.bizstrat.com/Article166.aspx
Magazine Articles
Localisation Focus Magazine
Adventures in Localisation Land, Vol. 2, Issue 2, June 2003
MultiLingual Computing & Technology Magazine
BizWonk is a regular contributor to MultiLingual Computing & Technology Magazine (www.multilingual.com). Sample articles are listed below. Click on them to learn more.
Internationalization: Introduction to Internationalization, #47 Supplement, April/May 2002
Locale Definitions: The Ongoing Debate, #47 Volume 13, Issue 3, April/May 2002
Professional Association for Localization Launched, #44 Volume 12, Issue 8, December 2001
Legislation, Passion, and Trade Agreements, #43 Volume 12, Issue 7, October/November 2001
Software Delivery Moves to the Web, #39 Volume 12, Issue 3, April/May 2001
Multilingual Web Site Testing, #37 Volume 12, Issue 1, January/February 2001
Sharing Translation Database Information, #33 Volume 11, Issue 5
A Primer for Building Multilingual Web Sites, #30 Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2000
Organizing Localization in Large Companies, #28 Volume 10, Issue 6
Evaluating your Corporate Localization Methods (The Capability Maturity Model provides guides for managing your international development process), #27 Volume 10, Issue 5
Language International Magazine
Make It Snappy! The story of how Kodak was able to cut localization
cycle time, Issue 11.1
This article describes process improvement initiatives that
International Wonk Suzanne Topping put in place while working with
Kodak's digital camera group.
Online Publications
Machine
Translation: It Can’t Match the Human Touch, September 28,
2001
This article explains why machine translation may not be a solution for
everyone.
IBM developerWorks
The Secret Life of Unicode, A Peek at
Unicode's Soft Underbelly, May 2001
This article discusses something you don't hear much about; the
perceived problem areas of Unicode.
The multilingual domain name race: On your
mark. get set. WAIT!, December 2000
This article discusses the hotly debated issue of how to support
non-US-ASCII characters in domain names. It's high time the Internet
allowed users around the world to use domain names in their own
character sets, but the question is, how should they be implemented?
The
ClientSideNews.com
A PAL is Born, October 2001
This article describes the formation of the Professional Association
for Localization.