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Work/Life Balance: The Parent Trap
The title of a heartwarming American cult classic released 25 years ago, “The Parent Trap”, could also depict many a coaching engagement quandary. Balance and wellness surface regularly in coaching, and for many leaders this means maneuvering the dual roles of professional and parent. I support clients in examining their values and creating new behaviors and realistic boundaries to honor them.
Surprisingly often, the hard part of balancing the scale is less about changing work and more about easing pressure on self to parent perfectly. Social media and pop cu...
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Accessibility: The Ultimate Form of Localization
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As we all know, localization is the process of adapting content, products, or services to the culture and language of customers in a target market. It is much more complex than just text translation. It involves changing the formats of dates, measurements, and addresses, as well as adjusting for different time zones, and replacing images and icons, among other complex processes.
Localization offers multiple proven benefits. It improves customer experience and helps avoid offending potential clients. It is...
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OOONA and AudioShake join forces to increase ASR transcription accuracy
Tel Aviv, 6 September 2023: OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with AudioShake to increase the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcription. The partnership will make AudioShake’s speech clean-up technology available within OOONA’s Integrated platform.
ASR technology has opened up captioning services to a broad range of content but transcription accuracy can still fall short when additional background noise or music is presen...
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LocWorld Community Warm-Up
In partnership with LocLunch, GALA would like to invite all localization professionals in the area to come to join us for a special event just before the start of LocWorld, the adeptly named "LocWorld Community Warm-Up"!
This Warm-Up is a perfect chance to
- Start networking early so you know everyone by the time LocWorld starts
- Meet with new and old local L10N / i18N / G11N / language tech friends who may not be attending LocWorld
- Talk your heart out with peers who DO understand what you do for a living
- Find your next greatest hire
- Get out of the house and skip cle...
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Henrik Kühnemann joins Translator Scandinavia as management team member and IT…
To help our customers with tomorrow’s solutions today, we welcome Henrik Kühnemann as our new IT and Production Manager. Henrik is joining the Translation Scandinavia team as a partner and as our new IT and Production Manager.
He has over 10 years’ experience in the language services industry, with a special focus on process automation and deploying technologies in production.
“Henrik and Translator Scandinavia are a perfect match,” says Cecilia Enbäck, CEO of Translator Scandinavia. “Our customers require new ways of thinking and smart and effective solutions. We’re ver...
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Patent-pending Generative AI-based translation technology from memoQ
Budapest, September 6, 2023 – memoQ, developer of the memoQ Translation Management System, has filed a patent application for a new generative AI-based translation automation solution.
memoQ Adaptive Generative Translation, or memoQ AGT in short, is a novel approach to translation automation. With memoQ AGT, translations are generated by a Large Language Model (LLM), similar to the model powering the ChatGPT service. memoQ AGT provides instant domain adaptation to generate translations tailored to the customer’s existing language resources and achieves this without retraining or fi...
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Global Language Strategy Master Class
Join Melissa Biggs for this pivotal Master Class.
Language strategy reaches across many corporate organization functions with major impact on customers and users.
Internal leaders from sales, marketing, and product, through customer support, training, social media, legal and human resources are active stakeholders in developing the right language strategy for their organization. Language strategy is a cornerstone for effective internationalization.
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Localization Teams Master Class w/ Instructor Mimi Hills
The Localization Teams Master Class focuses on the people aspects of building and growing localization teams. We’ll focus on the unique management challenges of a localization team, from hiring the right team members, defining roles and responsibilities, and setting goals, through seeing your employees through successful execution of department goals.
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Finally: Localization Gets a Communications Plan
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Staying viable. Growing. Expanding in international markets.
To truly thrive today, companies must recognize the business power–and value–of localization. So, what are the obstacles? Often, it comes down to our ability to communicate the value. In this article, based on an interview with Alessandra Binazzi, a globalization and localization consultant and former member of GALA Global’s Board of Directors, we’ll explore the priority of developing a communications plan to convey localization's true v...
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Acolad welcomes Daniel Gray as new US Sales VP
Industry veteran Daniel Gray will head business development, sales and account management teams in the United States to power the group’s continued growth in the territory
September 5, 2023 – Acolad, global leader in content and language solutions, has just welcomed industry veteran Daniel Gray as the group’s new Sales VP for the United States.
After an extensive and successful career that includes Language Services-giants Lionbridge and Welocalize, and other leading brands across multiple industries, like Deluxe Media, THG and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Gray...
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Crucial Marketing Concepts That Really Work
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In the fast-paced world of LSPs, where often translation projects come and go like on a conveyor belt, it may be difficult to squeeze in marketing, especially if no employee has enough experience or expertise. However, marketing is one of the four legs of the table that hold your business together.
So, this article will help you learn the crucial marketing concepts that many people struggle with and implement them immediately. No LinkedIn algorithms, ChatGPT, Google Ads or email campaigns will rea...
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CLEAR Global Launches Kompas, an Information Gateway for Ukraine
Boise, USA—31 August 2023 - CLEAR Global announced the launch of Kompas, a multilingual information gateway for people affected by the war in Ukraine. CLEAR Global has developed Kompas with the support of Mercy Corps and USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
Aimee Ansari, CEO, CLEAR Global on the launch of Kompas:
“We are thrilled to introduce Kompas, a game-changer for those impacted by the Ukraine war. The lack of reliable local information has deepened challenges in information access. For refugees, displaced people, and aid workers, information isn’t just important ...
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Accessibility at Dell
Accessibility is a must for a truly inclusive customer experience, but very few organizations offer an end-to-end accessible digital journey. Dell initiated their Accessibility journey in 2021 and the topic is gaining traction across the company. Ralph Jung and Gwenola Trystram from Dell Global Translation Services will explain how they are upskilling the translation team to better contribute to Dell’s accessibility efforts. They will describe the challenges they are facing and how they plan to overcome them. They will also suggest some changes for the localization specialists.
In this We...
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GALA Top Localization Content - August 2023
It’s time for our recap, and whether you missed an issue or just need a refresher, the GALA teams has gathered some of our most popular topics for the month of August that you won't want to miss.
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Could Going Hybrid Be the Future of Enterprise Localization? - Ramona Wuehle
What does localization project management look like from a client-side organization's perspective? According to Ramona Wuehle (Language Manager at Coupa software), an efficient enterprise-level localization process requires t...
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Artemis
We bind countries with languages, localization with translation and language solutions with business strategies. By collaborating with major domestic and international companies, we deal in a wide variety of business sectors, delivering a large scale of services across the globe....
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All-Things Automation
Integration, automation, no-code, low-code, middleware. TMS, BMS, invoicing, CRM, CMS, code repository. Zapier, Make, Mulesoft, Camunda, n8n, AutoHotKey. Xillio, iLangL, Blackbird, BeLazy. LexiQA, Modelfront, Content Quo. Customer and submitter portals, vendor portals, CMS connectors, order forms. Emails. SOAP APIs, REST APIs, web scraping, traffic capturing. Quotations, file preparation, updates. Full automation, script-based automation. People in our industry easily get daunted by all these technologies, and remain paralyzed in a world where automation is a top differentiator.
This presen...
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Say Hello to 1-StopAsia’s New Addition: The Client Portal - Your Ultimate Мap…
[August 29, 2023 – Plovdiv, BG] - Your project journey just got smarter! During the hot summer days, we’ve been keeping busy with a new exclusive feature for all our clients and we are happy to announce that all who work with us now, have a special corner in our custom TMS F1 - the new Client Portal.
True to our philosophy of transparency and flexibility this is the place, where all your 1-Stop information comes to one single place and it is yours to manage and follow.
How can our clients benefit from it?
We know how difficult it is to collect and streamline a vendor’s...
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Submitting AI-Generated Content to GALA Global
Here are some recommendations from the GALA team for working with AI-generated content.
At GALA, we want to be realistic about the use of technologies like generative AI. AI can streamline and enhance content creation, but it can also pose ethical challenges. As with any technology, there are risks associated with natural language generation.
To prevent at least some of these risks, we need to ensure that all content submitted by our members, whether text, images, or video, is aligned with GALA’s values, quality standards, and legal and ethical guidelines.
For this reason, we have c...
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Subtitling vs. Closed Captioning: What Suits Korean Media?
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Subtitling or closed captioning – most video content nowadays has either one of these, but what is the difference and which one is better? Originally, closed captions (CC) were used to reach the audience that is deaf or hard of hearing. Subtitling on the other hand is the most common audiovisual translation. Subtitling has had a positive impact across the globe, breaking the language barrier and enabling people of different languages to enjoy the same movies, TV shows, video games, books and a variety of o...
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The Localization Institute Presents: Spotlight on Spanish
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Registration for Spotlight on Spanish is now open!
Join The Localization Institute for this illuminating VIRTUAL CONFERENCE as we turn the Spotlight on Spanish. Culturally dispersed and richly woven into many nations, Spanish offers a unique challenge and opportunity for any company wishing to grow globally.
We will cover numer...
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An Update from the GALA Team
It’s a bit late to call this a midyear check-in, but in the spirit of transparency we still thought it was a grand time for an update from the GALA team. We have the pleasure of engaging with many of you through SIG meetings, GALA Academy sessions, webinars, emails, and the occasional phone call, but we don’t often cover the business details of the association when we connect. Let’s get started where it matters most.
GALA’s Value
The global language industry plays a critical role in business and communication. It makes significant contributions to world economies and improves the...
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Acolad sponsors relay swim in favor of ASPIRE
Acolad will support Jane O’Callaghan on her 34km (21 mi) crossing of the English Channel, directly contributing to the fundraising started by O’Callaghan for UK-based charity, ASPIRE.
August 22, 2023 – Acolad, global leader in content and language solutions, will be sponsoring its employee, Jane O’Callaghan, as she embarks on a remarkable journey to complete the 34 km (21 mi) crossing of the English Channel. From Dover, England to Cap Gris Nez in France, the swim is expected to take an average of 11 to 18 hours to complete.
The sporting challenge – expected ...