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| At Arm's Length or Close to the Vest? The Optimal Relationship between Clients and Vendors |
| Anil Singh-Molares, EchoMundi, LLC |
| The relationships between vendors and clients go through their ebbs and flows (more insourcing, followed by more outsourcing, followed by…). As predictable as the swings of a pendulum, all of us – clients and vendors – go through our normal gyrations back and forth. And it is all in an attempt to find that elusive, but allegedly perfect, middle ground – but where is it? And beyond the question of where to place work (inside or outside), the question is more about the right tenor of vendor-client relationships--at arm's length or close to the vest? The answer, I will argue, is both, in the right proportion. More. |
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| What is RTL? |
| Mohamed Ali, eLocalize |
| RTL is the writing system known as right-to-left (RTL) in which script runs from the right-hand side of a page and concludes on the left-hand side, such as in Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu. As business development manager of a fast-growing regional company working in Middle Eastern languages on a daily basis, I will endeavor to give readers some basic information about these types of languages. More. |
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| Thought Leaders |
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| Little fish, big pond: How do you stand out from your competition? |
| Renato Beninatto, Common Sense Advisory, Inc. |
| Late last year I asked a standing-room only audience of language service providers (LSPs) at an industry conference, “Who says that their main differentiator is quality?" Everybody who was awake raised their hands. Then I asked, “If everybody offers excellent quality, what really distinguishes you from your competitors?" More. |
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| Message from the Board |
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| Message From the Board Q2 2006 |
| Aki Ito, GALA Board Chair |
| The results of 2006 GALA Member Survey are here. We will share the complete results in the May 2006 Member Monthly Update and at the semi-annual meeting in Barcelona. However, I would like to share some highlights of the survey results here. More. |
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| Community |
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| Meet GALA's Newest Member Companies |
| GALA would like to welcome its newest members. GALA's 190 member companies worldwide include translation agencies, localization service providers, globalization consultants and technology developers.
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| Events |
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| Post-Event Report: Multicultural Media Expo 2006 |
| Morgana Kayser, Local Concept, Inc. |
| I attended the MultiCultural Media Expo’s first annual conference in Los Angeles February 22-24, 2006. The majority of the attendees and presenters were from the print, radio and television industries. There were many advertising/public relations firms, consultants and a few corporate attendees (ex. Disney, Comcast). I even ran in to a fellow localization firm! More. |
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| Post-Event Report: The 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference |
| Thomas Emerson, Basis Technology |
| The 29th Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC) was held in San Francisco on March 6 through 8 with over 200 pre-registered participants and a good number of on-site registrants. The program was nicely varied, ranging from tutorials addressing the upcoming Unicode 5.0 release, to discussions of security issues related to UTF-8 and various web internationalization and localization issues. More. |
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| Amsterdam Networking Dinner Re-cap |
| Daniel Carter |
| On Thursday, 23 March, a group of eight industry executives met at the restaurant 11 in Amsterdam for the second GALA Localization Fusion Society Dinner. Topics of discussion ranged from linguistic humor, politics, family and current issues to the future of the translation industry. More. |
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| Localization World Barcelona |
| May 30 - June 1. Barcelona |
| This month's conference in Barcelona has over 375 registrants from 32 countries. Conference sessions are geared towards professionals seeking to learn about new tools, methods and business practices in the areas of localization and internationalization.
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| Language Standards for Global Business Summit |
| May 29 - 30. Barcelona |
| Jesús Cañizares, Standardization Technical Officer of AENOR and Secretary of the Spanish Translation Task Force for the ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility, will deliver the keynote presentation at the LSGB Summit. The keynote will be followed by a series of highly interactive panels moderated by experts in the field of cross-language technology, services and global business. More. |
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| Localization World Montréal |
| CALL FOR PAPERS |
| Localization World has issued a Call for Papers for the October 16-18 conference in Montréal. The conference theme is "Increasing the Value of Linguistic Resources" and will be held at the Centre Mont-Royal. More. |
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Newsletter |
Q2 2006 |
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| Managing Global Websites and eCommerce conference: Gordon Husbands (Wordbank), Andrew Thomas (Adobe), Marcel Bregman (eBay), Timothy Spence (Starwood Hotel and Resorts) and Greg Okunami (HP) |
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| 80+ people attended the Managing Global Websites and eCommerce conference in San Francisco (March 2006) |
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| Managing Global Websites and eCommerce conference: Dennis Hwang, webmaster at Google, shares the inside story about managing the explosive international expansion at this search engine leader |
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| Managing Global Websites and eCommerce conference: Wei-Tai Kwok (Ion Global), David Laverty (InternationalCouncel) and Jeff Unze (Lucky Pacific Networks) |
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| MultiCultural Media Expo opening speech (March 2006 in Los Angeles) |
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| MultiCultural Media Expo: Asian-American media panel |
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| The 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference (March 2006) attracted over 200 attendees |
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| 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference (March 2006): Colonel Daniel Scott, Assistant Commandant of the Defense Language Institute (DLI) Foreign Language Center |
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| 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference (March 2006): Google booth |
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| Michael Havill (AuthorIT) at the GALA networking dinner in San Francisco organized by Satellite Station Inc. |
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| GALA members gathered in San Francisco for a networking dinner organized by Satellite Station Inc. prior to the Managing Global Websites and eCommerce conference (March 2006) |
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