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Today’s discussion yields extensive information about the meaning of color in various cultures, to build on the chart in “Color Meanings by Culture” posted at http://www.globalization-group.com/edge/resources/color-meanings-by-culture/
A Localization World conference will be held October 6-8, 2010 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle, Washington. For details visit http://www.localizationworld.com/
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:
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.
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.
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.
The Globalization and Localization Association, GALA, has published its full April, 2010 schedule of webinars. Topics covered are:
LocalizationCareers.net is an employment site focused on jobs in the localization industry. You can post jobs, post your resume, and browse jobs anonymously.
“If you’re going to localize, make it visible in the search results,” advises Google in the March 19 post on the company’s Webmaster Central Blog. The post is “Working with multilingual websites.”
The Localisation Research Centre (LRC) has announced the LRC XV Conference – Brave New World: The Future of Localisation Services, September 23-24, 2010 in Limerick, Ireland.
The First International XLIFF Symposium (XML Localisation Interchange File Format) will be held on September 22, 2010 in Limerick, preceding the LRC conference.
This is an opportunity to present your work with XLIFF and to discuss XLIFF’s future development. Submissions for presentations are due by May 15. Details are posted on the LRC site.
When you are creating a form, it’s necessary to consider users in countries other than your own. The UXmatters blog has a post about setting up address fields to accomodate international differences.
The ITC SIG business meeting at the upcoming STC Summit is scheduled as follows.
Monday, May 3
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Meeting Room: Cumberland E
Contact: Traci Nathans-Kelly
The schedule is still being adjusted. If there is a change, it will be posted here.
Neil Perlin is bringing “Beyond the Bleeding Edge” back to the Summit this year in Dallas. This session presents summaries of technologies and methodologies that are too new or unusual to fit into traditional Summit sessions–and Neil is looking for presenters.
Is there a technology or methodology you’d like to discuss? Can you share experiences in using XML or machine translation technologies? Do you have unique approaches to assuring effective communication across cultures? Share your experiences! See the full description of Beyond the Bleeding Edge on STC’s Notebook at for details and instructions on how to submit a proposal.
The full preliminary program for the STC Summit to be held in Dallas May 2 – 5 is now online.
Visit the program page to see the available sessions. You can register online.
7-9 June 2010
Hotel Maritim ProArte, Berlin, Germany
Ulrich Henes and Donna Parrish are finalizing the program for Localization World Berlin and will let us know when the program is published. Get a first look at parts of the great program being planned. There is an ad for the conference listing some of the program offerings; see it before it appears in print.
Visit http://localizationworld.com for details as they are available.
If you spend a few minutes on delicious.com, you can be rewarded with insights about resources in internationalization and localization, as well as who is active in the community. Explore one user’s links on web localization and then explore some other related searches to discover this world for yourself.
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