Digital convergence opens new career choices for localization experts

As content continues to gain importance as a business asset, organizations are slowly transforming into global content factories. This trend offers an attractive career opportunity to localization professionals who – with their rich experience in managing complex and diverse content types – hold important skills for new leadership positions.

Text by Benjamin B. Sargent

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Digital convergence opens new career choices for localization experts

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In the evolving world of digital marketing, there is a shift happening that can benefit the careers of localization professionals with content backgrounds – and content experts with localization experience. The shift comes about as companies gather the strands of digital marketing, such as email, landing pages, SEO, apps, blogging, click advertising, social, and paid social, into coordinated or integrated campaigns. Each of these activities originates in separate teams, which we call marketing silos. The teams may be internal or external, or a combination, further amplifying the coordination challenge. The localization requirement adds even more complexity.

Today's marketing silos

Campaigns run from a single marketing silo require little coordination, and most teams have built up their process and technology without considering the activities of other silos. Today, companies recognize ...