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Sunday, May 2, 2010: Welcome Reception

Monday, May 3, 2010: ITC Business Meeting

• ITC’s Annual Business Meeting  will be held at lunchtime (12-1:30pm local time)  in the Cumberland “E” room. Cumberland rooms are located on the lower level, near the exhibit hall. Bryan-Beeman room is located on the Atrium level, behind the elevators. Shawnee Trail #362 is located on the third floor, overlooking the Atrium. All of the floors are accessible from the main elevators.
• If you would like to attend, please reserve a seat by emailing the ITC Manager, Traci Nathans-Kelly, at kelly@epd.engr.wisc.edu . We have ordered food for ten people, and those seats will be given to those who contact Traci first.  Those with confirmed reservations with Nathans-Kelly will be served a lunch (no charge). Menu is as follows: Chilled Serrano Roasted Chicken Breast and Three Texas Gulf Shrimp over mesclun greens and wild rice salad. Exotic fruit and tomato salsa and Dallas’ own goat cheese coin. Dessert is Triple Gooey Chocolate Cake with champagne peach sauce. Coffee, decaf, tea.

Download a PDF of these announcements and a listing of ITC-related sessions here:International Technical Communication STC 2010 Summit Activities

Monday: Community Reception, 7:30pm

• ITC will have a table at this reception. Please stop by!
• ITC will hold a drawing at the end of this event to give away several ITC-related books. To have a chance at the books, please stop by the table and put your business card in the bowl.
• ITC will have a table with buttons available. Please contact Traci Nathans-Kelly if you will be attending the conference and would like to have a button reserved for you. We have 75 available. Any buttons not reserved will be given away at this event.

Tuesday, 4 May; 7:00 AM, ITC SIG Networking Breakfast

This event requires a ticket to be purchased in advance. Tickets may be purchased onsite by noon the day before the breakfast. The cost of each breakfast is $30.50. All the breakfasts will be held in Marsalis B. This room is next to the exhibit hall and will be divided into sections. There will be signs outside each section with the names of the SIGs that will be seated in that section.

ITC SIG News Event, STC Summit

For guidelines on using English effectively worlwide, consult Kohl’s Global English Style Guide, which has been reviewed.

Features English language, Internationalization, Resource

The AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe publishes “ASD Simplified Technical English,” Specification ASD-STE100, European Community Trade Mark No. 004901195, International specification for the preparation of maintenance documentation in a controlled language.  A consulting firm has assembled resources on this standard and offers training in many locations.

Features Event, Resource, Simplified English

If you are new to localization, you may want to join SimulTrans for the “Introduction to Localization” webinar on Tuesday, April 27 or Thursday, May 19. 

This is an educational event. Details are:

SimulTrans Webinar – Introduction to Localization
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
2 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT / Noon MDT / 11 a.m. PDT
OR
Thursday, May 19, 2010
4 p.m. EDT / 3 p.m. CDT / 2 p.m. MDT / 1 p.m. PDT 
Free of charge   
Register at http://www.simultrans.com/register.cfm 
Contact: SimulTrans
education@simultrans.com
+1-512-670-8988 

Description: Introduction to Localization
This session addresses the basics:

• What is all this “-zation” language?
• How should you prepare a localization kit and request a proposal? 
• What factors should you consider in choosing a localization partner?
• How long does localization take? How much does it cost?
•  How can you ensure high linguistic quality?
• What are translation memory tools?

Presenter
Adam Jones, Chief Operating Officer, SimulTrans

Adam oversees SimulTrans’ worldwide operations, including project management, translation, engineering, testing, multilingual publishing, account management, and marketing. Adam has spent over 16 years directing the company’s customer outreach efforts, internal production groups, and other operations. He regularly gives training presentations at conferences of the Society for Technical Communications, the American Translators Association, the Software & Information Industry Association, and other groups. Adam previously worked as an International Strategic Account Specialist at Oracle Corporation and a high school English teacher.  He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University, in Public Policy and Education.  

To learn more about the company, visit SimulTrans’ website at http://www.simultrans.com.

Tech Comm News Event, Localization

If you have used your technical writing/editing, translation, or localization skills in a way that supports a community need, please let us know what that was! We would like to begin recognizing the extraordinary efforts that our members bring to the communities that they are part of. Have you volunteered for a non-profit? Translated for a local literacy group? Localized materials for communities that otherwise would not have access to information? What are your stories? How do your professional talents “translate” into community service, volunteerism, or other related activities?

If you would like to share your story, please leave a comment here (click the Comments link at the upper right), contact the SIG manager, Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, or post your story on the SIG mail list. (By submitting your story, you’re giving us permission to post your story on Global Talk. Please remember all list posts are published immediately on the public web; see http://itcglobaltalk.org/?page_id=9 .)

We want to share and inspire with ideas, tales, and suggestions for activities for our members.

ITC SIG News Member news

This is a thesis for a Masters student, Kang Sun, from Bowling Green.  The abstract reads, in part: “This thesis identifies Chinese university situations specific to the transfer of technical communication to China, especially the relationship between general socio-economic settings in China and the influences these general settings have on the university disciplinary structure changes. The objective of this research is to reveal openings in translation discipline as a shell for technical communciation to merge with. [clip]. It is concluded that the merger of technical communication with translation can both gain technical communication a pivotal status of being a discipline in Chinese universities and solve some problems of the translation field. More importantly, such a merger offers a future-oriented perspective of development for the merged discipline to ride more successfully the stablly growing Chinese economic growth.

Full text via PDF:  http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/SUN%20KANG.pdf?bgsu1122304773

Features China, Resource, Translation

The challenges of selling stories for youth in many parts of the world and successsful techniques are the subject of an April 14, 2010 feature in Publishing Perspectives, “Selling Amanda Abroad.” This is a series of books and an interactive website.

Features Internationalization, Localization, Translation

Be sure to read the article in the Huffington Post about the STC France Chapter’s Content Strategy Forum, held in collaboration with the TransAlpine Chapter and the Europe SIG. Developments in content strategy are also featured.

STC News, Tech Comm News Content strategy, Event

The Handbook of Global User Research is described on the User Centric website at  http://www.usercentric.com/handbook-global-user-research. You can view the table of contents at http://www.globaluserresearch.com/book/table-of-contents.

Features Cross-cultural communication, Internationalization, Resource, Usability

The 2010 Content Strategy Forum, a joint venture of the France and TransAlpine Chapters and the Europe SIG, is sold out, with participants from many countries and many organizations. The Twitter feed is live on Global Talk, and you can learn more about the conference on on the STC France chapter site.

STC News Content strategy, Event

Sunday, May 2, 2010: Community Reception

• ITC will have a table at this reception.  Please stop by!
• ITC will hold a drawing at the end of this event to give away several  ITC-related books.  To have a chance at the books, please stop by the table and put your business card in the bowl.
• ITC will have a table with buttons available.  Please contact Traci Nathans-Kelly if you will be attending the conference and would like to have a button reserved for you.  We have 75 available.  Any buttons not reserved will be given away at this event.

Monday, May 3, 2010: ITC Business Meeting

• ITC’s Annual Business Meeting  will be held at lunchtime (12-1:30pm local time)  in the Cumberland “E” room. Cumberland rooms are located on the lower level, near the exhibit hall. Bryan-Beeman room is located on the Atrium level, behind the elevators. Shawnee Trail #362 is located on the third floor, overlooking the Atrium. All of the floors are accessible from the main elevators.
• If you would like to attend, please reserve a seat by emailing the ITC Manager, Traci Nathans-Kelly, at kelly@epd.engr.wisc.edu . We have ordered food for ten people, and those seats will be given to those who contact Traci first.  Those with confirmed reservations with Nathans-Kelly will be served a lunch (no charge). Menu is as follows: Chilled Serrano Roasted Chicken Breast and Three Texas Gulf Shrimp over mesclun greens and wild rice salad. Exotic fruit and tomato salsa and Dallas’ own goat cheese coin. Dessert is Triple Gooey Chocolate Cake with champagne peach sauce. Coffee, decaf, tea.

Download a PDF of these announcements and a listing of ITC-related sessions here: International Technical Communication STC 2010 Summit Activities

ITC SIG News Event, Technical communication

Bridging the Barriers was the theme of a conference on accessiblity in the workplace, including accessible technology, held in February, 2010 in New Delhi, India. This was the second Techshare Conference hosted by Barrier Break Technologies in conjunction with The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) of the United Kingdom.

The Phillipines and Korea have national web accessibilty guidelines based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Tech Comm News Accessibilty, Standards, Usability, Web

The next Queensland (Australia) Tech Writer meeting will be held in Brisbane, Australia at 5:30 PM on May 10.  Details are posted on the Australian Society for Technical Communication site.

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Voting is about to close for the current STC elections. The 2010 STC election will close at NOON EDT (GMT-4) on Thursday, 8 April 2010. Please take a moment to ensure that your voice is heard in the selection of STC’s leadership.

To vote, log in at https://eBallot.votenet.com/stc with your election user name and password.

To get your specific ELECTION username and password, please refer to the individual email sent to the email account you have registered for STC. At the bottom of that email, you will find your specific election username and password.

STC News elections

Localization World will be held in Berlin in June 2010.  Details about the five tracks are posted:  Global Business Best Practices, Managing Global Websites, Advanced Localization Management, Localization Core Competencies, and Know-How for Global Success.

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