We were recently responding to an RFP and put together a slide of "Where are our users located?" and we had over 90 countries represented in about a 3 month span.

Here is the list of countries.

The importance of translation in business and the world.
With the advent of social media technologies it has become easier than ever to publish and consume information. Being able to rapidly deploy increasing amounts of information helps organizations and corporations to grow and foster community growth. Even more important, lowering the barriers to communication can alleviate the problem of information poverty wherein many societies don’t have access to basic information to help improve their quality of life.

The ability to leverage the crowd for your translation projects can not only increase the speed and lower costs, but it can fundamentally shift how your organization approaches and relates to translation in general. Many organizations are starting to have an “ah-ha” moment as they realize that translating their content with new crowd-enabled technologies is now within their reach. Localization initiatives no longer have to consume prohibitive cost or time resources. Let’s look at five ways the crowd is revolutionizing how organizations approach translation projects.

The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), the language industry’s oldest association, announced today that it was shutting down operations effective 28 February 2011 in order to limit further financial commitments. Nonetheless, the Standards Summit scheduled for Boston commenced as scheduled. Director Michael Anobile notified LISA members in an e-mail earlier today.