Giovanni pointed us to Rusty Weston’s My Global Career blog.
“My Global Career features reader–generated content by a burgeoning community of global workers, hiring managers and recruiters among others.”

“My Global Career 500 – a ranking and directory of the world’s
largest employers; tools such as World Business Holidays; unique
assessment tests such as Global Ready?;”

Very nice listing of top employers globally or as one would call it MNC’s – Multi National Corporations. The emphasis is on upper case M as in BIG.

Increasingly smaller companies and organizations (like ours for example) are the new mNC – emphasis on the lower case m. We are small (less than 100 people), but have employees (not just temporary hires) in US, India, Ukraine and Canada.

Most of the communities that businesses that we run are 65% dominated
by US users, and some in India are obviously dominated by people from
India.  So what have we learned from global communities:

1. Moderation cannot be done in a non-local way. E.g: We had a US semiconductor company with moderators in India. After seeing no “moderation” for 3 days we asked the moderator “What’s going on?”. Apparently one of the users posted offensive content that bothered the moderator, but it really was a colloquial usage of an american slang.

2. Use timezone differences to your advantage: Personalize your content enough for local test, but cater to global issues that plague all users.

3. Accept global survey results with a grain of salt. Survey questions dont always translate well in local languages even if your answers are of the multi-choice type. We found it better to localize survey questions to get a better feel for localization within an international community.