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Kicking off the upcoming webinar season is a session around how to maximize total translation spend. The session (the first of six) is on the 7th July at noon EST. Too often the first question is “how much per word” when the first questions should be “what do you do to maximize appropriate reuse and [...] Several weeks ago I was speaking at a localization conference when and audience member asked me about machine translation, and if it would ever completely take the place of human linguists in the industry. I answered “No,” although I did concede that machine translation is consistently making strides and does have a place in the [...] Jason Fink is Corporate Communications Manager for Celanese Corporation and has been with them since March 2007. His responsibilities include oversight for online communications, which includes internet and intranet design and support. Prior to joining Celanese, Jason was a communications project leader for United Parcel Service responsible for the internal/external communications department for the North [...] More detailed Q&A with each of the speakers coming as soon as they are transcribed. I was lucky enough to sit on the panel alongside Scott DeFusco of Deltek and Michael Buckham-White of Premiere Global yesterday. I have met Scott a number of times in the past but not Michael. Michael is a 15-year veteran [...] Two leaders from the global operations and localization industry – Michael Buckham-White and Scott DeFusco – will be speaking in Buckhead, Atlanta next week. Michael is a 15-year veteran of human communications profession and is an emerging leader in global interactive marketing. He held positions with a number of telecommunications companies, including AT&T, and [...] I was recently talking to a strategic sourcing manager who had been pitched on the idea of direct TM update by a vendor. The manager wanted to gauge my reaction and wondered whether this was something they should implement. It isn’t a new idea of course, but is one that I have always dismissed out [...] “What do you see as the biggest challenges in creating a global-scale customer support environment today” A Q&A with Robbie Liotta of Dassault Systems transcribed from SDL’s recent Localization Roundtable in Boston. Dassault specializes in mechanical CAD content and I focus on the technical support strategy. A couple of years ago we started to [...] SDL held one of their localization best practice workshops in Boston last week. The series is designed to give localization professionals somewhere to meet peers and range from small roundtable discussions to larger affairs with speakers from within the localization world. This event was one of the medium sized localization roundtables with guest experts from local [...] Agile has become an important methodology for development teams looking to avoid high-overhead heavyweight software development methodologies. Focusing on iterative development and tight team-work between technical and business teams, Agile projects deliver working software revisions every 6-8 weeks. Because of the nature of Agile projects, truly supporting global-scale localization can be challenging. |
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