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Action item:
Related Episode
Stem the madness.
Build your people and they'll build your
nation.
Carefully engage an Iraqi to work for you online.
Every
episode of the show inspires us to take particular actions.
Some are small.
Most are personal. Yet, sometimes the thoughts are
big and the potential
dramatic. This is such an idea.
Resources to
Translate your Web Site into Arabic
Let us focus on
the global community and our work in Iraq.
1. The list of
those who will translate your website into Arabic:
In September 2003
SmallBusinessSchool hired people at the Baghdad Business Center to begin
translating this web site into Arabic. The first pages were done and posted.
They looked pretty good, but when we upgraded our servers, we lost our Arabic
character set. So, on Sunday, October 16, 2005, we hired
Fareed
Jaffar in Baghdad to straighten it all out and to continue the
translations.
He did extensive work on
it.
He calls us using
Skype and we instant message as if he were down the street.
We'll chart our
course in public and you will see what the results are. Let us know your
thoughts; and with your permission, we'll include your email in this unfolding
history.
Drop
us a note!
Iraq Business
Centers: Here are some of the Iraqi agencies that will help. Each has a
growing group of translators:
- Independent resources:
- Baghdad Job Center:
- eKur Services:
Email
- The Iraqi-American Service Company (The Eastern Company)
- Al Mansour:
Recent Graduates of Al-Mansour University
College
- More to come for Adhamiya, Al Basrah, Al
Kadhimiya, Al Karhk, Al Rasheed, Ar Rutbah, Irbil, Karbala, Karkuk, Mosul, Sadr
City, Tissa Nissan, Umm Qasr.
Others who might
help:
2. The Seeds of
the Idea Within Episodes of the Show: In every episode we explore the
meaning and value of life through the efforts of a person with an
idea.
- The Capitalist School: The soul of the
American economy is small business.
- Brave and free: A study of the life of an
immigrant who has become the Chairman of The American Arab Chamber of
Commerce
- The Mentors' Circle: A study of a global
business that has won many diversity awards.
- No borders, no boundaries: A study of eight
businesses in the State of Maine where the owners sell to people throughout the
world. All of us can.
3. The first
steps toward action within a Town Hall meeting: Since the Pilgrims, we have
been people of a community and people who meet to discuss ideas, insights and
problems.
- Friday, May 21, 2004, Orlando: For part of
the annual celebration of National Small Business Week the
SBA worked
with the US
Department of Commerce to open the discussions about what the government
can do to help us. The question was reversed several times; and in one
instance, the question was asked, "What can we do to help bring peace to the
Middle East?"
- Jobs, jobs, jobs: Several episodes of the
show discuss the power of work and the gift of a good job. In two episodes, one
titled Create Jobs, Create Wealth and the other
Tough Love, we see how good work
transforms people.
- Extend ourselves: As leaders and thinkers,
and if we want to keep our government efficient-but-strong, we need to begin
grappling with the new role we each have in this global community. We are all
challenged to learn the names of all the six billion people on our
ever-shrinking planet. Those we empower within the government can help us:
We will continue
working on these links, add email addresses and contact names, and keep them as
current as possible.
Perhaps as a result
of all of our efforts, the next big thing in Iraq could be cyber cafes. If the
population of Iraq is about 26 million, the small businesses just in the USA
could employ most of the working people!
The next big thing
will be to get to know someone, and to develop trust between us. Perhaps if
this starts to work, there can be a special configuration -- a satellite dish
and computer -- that could empower 24x7 work and business development.
In translating,
each Iraqi translator would learn about that small business. Assume it is your
business. That person will also learn about your path to prosperity. It could
become a mutual path to greater prosperity as you expand and sell your products
and services into the Middle East and other Arabic-speaking countries and
cultures. You will be working with and through an Iraqi. It will be a challenge
for each of us to articulate the new world order (on the back of the US dollar
bill) that Michael Novak discusses.
We believe these
dollars will be well spent. We'll let you know what happens here ... we'll
update our progress right here on these pages!
Get listed and linked. comments,
suggestions and questions.
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