Having one foot in the world of IT and another in facilitation I keep getting asked: "What's the difference between Open Spaces and BarCamps?" Here's how I described it to a good facilitator friend of mine (Julian from DecisionLab)...

I had an interesting chat with Alan last night about the role of "retrospectives" and it reminded me about the ICT4D Twitter Chat today around "Learning from Failure" being organised by the fine folks at Inveneo.

Translation can be a real headache. Identifying text for translation, finding individual strings and phrases to avoid duplications, contextual exceptions, keeping track of them, revisions, collaborating remotely, reviewing, back-translating, integrating translations back into a finished product - you name it, the translation workflow has got it. But first, a bit of background...