Global by Design

It’s not every day I come across a survey localized into 18 languages.

But I guess I should expect nothing less from one of the world’s largest translation agencies.

Lionbridge wants to know what social media you use.

If you enter your email address, you’ll get the results.

Here’s the link.

PS: I just took it and it did take only 5 minutes. But it’s a rather clunky survey. At first I thought the only sites it would ask me about were Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. I had to click through to the next page where I found the “global” list of social media sites, which will be much more relevant to folks in, say Germany (Xing) and Brazil (Orkut).

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