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Creating a New Way for People To Discover Government Benefits

Creating a New Way for People To Discover Government Benefits—To make it even easier for everyone to find services and benefits without needing to understand government structure, we’re developing a new digital tool in partnership with 10x, GSA’s incremental technology fund. BEARS, the Benefits Eligibility Awareness Resource Service, is an important step forward in providing an integrated, simple solution for federal benefits to improve the customer experience and will eventually cover all federal benefits from all agencies.— via USA.gov

Mar 15, 2022

Tips to help you improve access to your non-English digital content.

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Ammie Farraj Feijoo

Laura Godfrey

Michael Mulé

Multilingual Huddle: Designing for Translation

In this webinar, Laura Godfrey and Fedora Braverman share tips for translating content in the digital context.

Laura Godfrey

Jun 16, 2021

In this talk, we’ll focus on content creation and how accessibility supports multilingual work.

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Laura Godfrey

Wendy A F G Stengel

Willa Armstrong

How the Census Bureau provided language assistance in 59 non-English languages for the 2020 Census.

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Jason Kopp

Jennifer Kim

Laura Godfrey

Marisa Hotchkiss

In this workshop, we will show how USAGov en Español collects and analyzes data from across several social media channels and the USAGov Contact Center to design and improve content and outreach strategies.

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Andres Quinones

Fabiola Herrera

Laura Godfrey

This talk will offer insights and tips on how to best design and translate surveys and other government materials aimed at reaching non-English speaking members of the public.

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Kathleen Kephart

Laura Godfrey

Mikelyn Meyers

Patricia Goerman

With the sharp improvement in machine translation quality, the variety of government use cases for this technology has evolved.

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Beth Flaherty

Laura Godfrey

The federal Plain Language community is holding their first all-day summit in Washington D.C., and you’re invited!

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Anne Meeker

Donna Garland

Eric Kanter

Ginny Redish

Joe Kimble

Jonathan Rubin

Katherine Spivey

Katina Stapleton

Laura Godfrey

Meredith Larson

Join the Multilingual and Video Production Pros Communities of Practice for a talk about a video the CFPB created, for a Spanish speaking audience.

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Bryce Spivey

Laura Godfrey

Using Journey Mapping to Streamline Processes Across Agencies

How one team used journey mapping to improve the customer experience for newly naturalized citizens attempting to travel abroad.

Laura Godfrey

Feb 05, 2018

This event will provide concrete tips and examples of how to reach more Spanish speakers needing and looking for government information through social media

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Edgardo Morales

Laura Godfrey

Leilani Martinez

Top 10 Best Practices for Multilingual Websites

Ten tips for creating and managing multilingual government websites.

Fedora Braverman

Laura Godfrey

Lina Younes

Leilani Martinez

Sep 07, 2016

The USAGov Bilingual Style Guide Is Now Online!

About a year and a half ago, the Federal Citizen Information Center—today called USAGov—embarked on a very ambitious task: integrating our content operations. We blurred lines that defined silos and adopted a bilingual content approach to offer a more consistent experience, regardless of language preference or point of access to our information. See more about

Laura Godfrey

Apr 14, 2016

Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Spanish Health Care Terms in the United States

A list of common English health care and medical terms, and their Spanish translations.

Laura Godfrey

Leilani Martinez

Jun 11, 2014

Bilingual Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Style Guides

Multilingual resources to standardize the use of various languages across government.

Laura Godfrey

Leilani Martinez

Jun 11, 2014

Spanish Language Style Guides and Glossaries

Spanish Language Style Guides are resources for government employees, translators, and communications professionals who work with the government that contains information on grammar and style issues, and glossaries to standardize the use of Spanish across government.

Laura Godfrey

Leilani Martinez

Jun 11, 2014

Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Grammar

Examples and explanations for words, phrases, acronyms, numbers, punctuation, capitalization, symbols, and more used in Spanish grammar.

Laura Godfrey

Feb 07, 2014

Hurricane guidance for U.S. government websites and social media

Laura Godfrey

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2020 Census Language Support in 59 Non-English Languages

How USAGov en Español Uses Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Meet the Needs of Its Audience

Survey Translation and the Inclusion of End Users in the Process

Using Neural Machine Translation for Multilingual Communication

Plain Language Summit 2018

Creating Videos in Languages Other Than English

Using Journey Mapping to Streamline Processes Across Agencies

Top 10 Best Practices for Multilingual Websites

The USAGov Bilingual Style Guide Is Now Online!

Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Spanish Health Care Terms in the United States

Bilingual Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Style Guides

Spanish Language Style Guides and Glossaries

Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Grammar