Global Talk

Webinar: Translating for global needs

tkelly — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:16:09 +0000

Ina Geller of Geller Translation Solutions, LLC

Localization World is sponsoring a webinar series with a translation and localization focus, with Ina Geller as your expert for the series.

http://www.localizationinstitute.com/index.cfm?SEMINAR_CAT_ID=7

Kit Brown-Hoekstra, ITC past manager, to lead online seminar series on Content Dev and Localization

tkelly — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:23:25 +0000

Global-Ready Content
Instructor: Katherine (Kit) Brown-Hoekstra

Kit Brown-Hoekstra + Localization World

The Localization Institute is offering 7 new technical writing online seminars, including a free introductory session. Learn how you can improve your content’s global readiness while reducing localization costs.

The Localization Institute is dedicated to bringing the same quality of information and instruction to our Online Training as we do with our onsite seminars and roundtables. You can find a current schedule of all training offered at our website: www.localizationinstitute.com.

Online registration is now open for all sessions. Space is limited. Please feel free to contact Kris Wiegand at (608) 826-5001 or kris@localizationinstitute.com with any questions or concerns.

The Localization Institute, Inc.
7601 Ganser Way, Madison, WI 53719 USA
Tel. (608)826-5001 Fax (608)826-5004

GALA Surveys about quoting costs for localization

tkelly — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:01:47 +0000

In an effort to assist the GALA Standards Initiative with the Model Service Elements project, the ITC SIG posts this announcement/request for survey participation. The project aims to define standard service descriptions for the localization industry. We believe that this effort will help promote transparency and best practice for the industry and lead to better quality and satisfaction rates.

We have three easy ways you can help this project move along:
Survey. Take a short survey on how you obtain or provide quotes for localization services. This survey will help us identify what information language service providers ask for to provide bids and what information buyers of services typically include in RFPs.
To take this survey, follow one of these two links:
For Translation Service Providers: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CWB9D5J
For Buyers of Translation Services: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CSLN2L9

Localization process documentation. If you have any sort of documentation of your localization processes that you can share with us (either online or in an off-line document), please send me a mail with information on how to obtain it. This information can be kept confidential if required and will help us determine how the variety of process models relate to one another.

Guidelines for localization services. If you have prepared any guidelines for buyers of localization services or educational materials you use internally for educating staff about localization issues that you can share, we would like to see how companies present this information to their prospective clients or internal stakeholders. If you can share anything of these sorts of materials, please respond and let me know what you can share.

If you can assist us with any (or all) of these requests, it will help us prepare first drafts of the model service elements. Note that we will credit all contributors (except those who wish to remain anonymous) in the Model Service Elements results (to be delivered in Q1 2012).

If you would like to get more closely involved with this project, we encourage you to visit http://gala.mymemberfuse.com/groups/profile/view/groupid/1790 and sign up for the group. Instructions on how to join the group appear at the end of this message.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions about this project or the GALA Standards Initiative.

Best regards,

Arle Lommel
GALA Standards Coordinator
alommel@gala-global.org

It’s a lot like Monaco!

tkelly — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:23 +0000

GALA is preparing for its conference in Monaco next year. See information and the call for papers here: http://gala-global.org/conference/

STC Webinar: Writing for Localization, Sept 22

tkelly — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:30:36 +0000

Decisions made during content development impact the quality and consistency of the translated versions of the content. In this certificate course, you will learn the difference between Translation, Localization, and Internationalization; learn best practices with writing methods and content management; and learn about the tools of the translation industry. Through best practices, tools, and building a dynamic knowledge base, participants will learn how to make their companies’ localization process more efficient and achieve consistently higher quality translations.

More information and registration

Instructor: Lisa Pietrangeli is a managing partner and director of client solutions at ThirtySix Software. At ThirtySix, Lisa specializes in working with clients to develop customized content development strategies. Lisa brings over 11 years of experience to ThirtySix Software, having worked extensively with companies around the world, helping them to streamline their content development and localization processes.

Free SDL workshop on Passolo!

tkelly — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:32:14 +0000

SDL is doing a 3-hour free Webinar on its software localisation tool, Passolo. The six half-hour topics covered over the three hour Webinar are:

- How to become globally agile

- Customer case study

- The SDL Passolo collaboration edition: enabling continuous localisation

- Sim ship or sinking ship?

- Passolo within the SDL solutions portfolio

- SDL Passolo – tips & tricks

The Webinar is from 10:00am to 1:00pm EDT (16:00 to 19:00 CET) on 22 September.

For more information and to register, go to:

http://www.sdl.com/en/language-technology/news-and-events/sdl-events/nasa/2011/09-22-software-localization-webinar.asp

Tons of new STC certificate courses!

tkelly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:16:31 +0000

See all the possibilities for your own professional development via STC. Most classes are discounted for STC members!
http://stc.org/education/online-education/certificate-courses

Call for papers, communication in food/drug/water

tkelly — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:14:06 +0000

Please consider this call for chapter proposals! The emphasis is on communication in the fields of food/drug/water. Pass this notice along to anyone who may be interested.

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GALA Standards Initiative

tkelly — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:21:37 +0000

The GALA standards initiative promotes the effective use of standards for international and multilingual content, builds awareness of best practices for their implementation, and enables the localization community to make open standards work.

Download a copy of the full standards initiative plan (version 1.2, published 02 June).

Localization World, Barcelona!

tkelly — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:51:28 +0000

Go to Barcelona! Learn about localization!
http://www.localizationworld.com/lwbar2011/registration.php