ProZ.com Newsletter: September 2008

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The Translation Workplace Jobs | Kudoz | Go to site --------------------- ProZ.com Newsletter --------------------- Your ProZ.com username: (See bottom for more details related to your ProZ.com account) Promote yourself - become a member! Join now: http://www.proz.com/join (1) Announcing the ProZ.com Certified PRO network (2) International Translation Day celebrated with powwows (3) Justin Chlebus Memorial Scholarship half funded (4) Directory of translation companies updated (5) ProZ.com now available in European Portuguese (6) Conference in Uruguay built bridges (7) Upcoming conferences: Croatia, Italy, Ukraine, Spain (8) Upcoming powwows: UK, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, US, etc. (9) ProZwiki article on translation industry in Armenia (10) "Warsaw Pact Debate" to be led by ProZ.com's Andre Pellet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) Announcing the ProZ.com Certified PRO network ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new ProZ.com program was announced on International Translation Day last week: the ProZ.com Certified PRO network. This program has been launched to identify qualified translators and translation companies working in various language pairs, and provide them with the option of networking and collaborating in an environment consisting entirely of screened professionals. The impetus for the program came from member responses to the July survey on professional differentiation. The concept has been further refined and developed over the past several months by a private group consisting of ProZ.com members and site staff. An overview was first made available last week. The program is being made open for applications starting today. To learn more, go to: http://www.proz.com/pro-tag/info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) ProZians celebrate International Translation Day with powwows worldwide ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ International Translation Day, which falls on September 30th, was celebrated worldwide by the ProZ.com community last week in a series of powwows reaching every corner of the globe. For an interactive map showing the remarkable coverage of the powwow series, see: http://www.proz.com/?sp=event/powwow_itd Advertisement ------------------------------------ Have you visited http://www.proz.com/shop lately? There are many new products and specials, some for a limited time only. Check out the new items added on International Translation Day at http://www.proz.com/shop ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ To help you grow your business and reduce your translation costs there is now the chance to buy SDL Trados 2007 Professional, the world's leading translation memory software, at only $2396 / €2396 / £1676 saving you 20%! http://www.sdl.com/proznsp . Offer ends on the 17th October 2008. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (3) The Justin Chlebus Memorial Scholarship is halfway to its funding goal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A big thank you to all of those who have contributed to the Justin Chlebus Memorial scholarship in September. The scholarship, established in memory of former ProZ.com staff member Justin Chlebus, will provide the opportunity for exceptional young people to study for one year in another country. In the program's first month, over 10,160 euro was raised. The application process will be formulated when the target amount of 20,000 euro has been reached. Children of ProZ.com members with an interest in studying overseas and learning a new language, and young ProZians themselves, will then be invited to apply. To learn more about the scholarship program, go to: http://www.proz.com/justin-chlebus-memorial-scholarship Advertisement ------------------------------------ Alchemy PUBLISHER 2.0 supports Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, MS Word, XML, SGML, RTF, and DOCX as well as HTML, XHTML, ASP, ASP+, and much more. Alchemy PUBLISHER works with virtually every translation memory format, including machine translation! http://www.alchemysoftware.ie/estore/order_publisher.html ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (4) Directory of translation companies updated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ProZ.com directory of translation companies has been redesigned. It now searches against the information contained in the new company profile. This means that it is possible, for example, to search for companies that are of a certain scale, that offer DTP or multimedia services, that operate in certain industries, etc. More than 20,000 companies are listed, and much more information is available about each. Those with the most positive Blue Board records are shown first. See: http://www.proz.com/translation-agencies Advertisement ------------------------------------ Buy Now and Save with Wordfast! 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That the site is now available in Slovak thanks to the direction of team leader Lexika -- http://www.proz.com/profile/47502 -- and the following members who also volunteered: - Katarina Kazikova http://www.proz.com/profile/813317 - Lucia [Lulu] Filova http://www.proz.com/profile/112710 - Peter Zalupsky http://www.proz.com/profile/45112 - Kristian Madar http://www.proz.com/profile/113904 To view the Slovak version of ProZ.com, click on the following link: http://slk.proz.com Please thank the team members for their hard work! Advertisement ------------------------------------ Backup and sharing your files, even large ones, with your clients and colleagues is now easy and safe! Thanks to Memopal, you can access your data when and how you wish. Memopal is the software that intelligently organizes and protects your data. Now also for Mac and Linux - Try it for free! http://memopal.clickmeter.com/449739.html ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) Conference in Uruguay built bridges ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you were at the August conference in Montevideo, organized by member Fabio Descalzi, you know that it was a unique and successful event. Over 120 ProZians from 11 countries attended this event -- the first of its type in Uruguay -- making the conference theme of 'Building bridges to the world' particularly relevant. In addition, more than twenty university students (many from the University of the Republic) were there to hear from the 15 speakers. Members of the Directory Board of the Uruguayan Sworn Translators Association were there, too. 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If you wish to register for one or receive more information, including a list of attendees, go to: Croatia October 11th (94 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/43 Italy October 17-18 (180+ registrants - sold out) http://www.proz.com/conference/58 Ukraine October 18-19 (81 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/68 Spain October 25 (160 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/49 France November 21-22 (89 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/62 United Kingdom November 22-23 (243 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/55 Germany December 6-7 (20 registrants) http://www.proz.com/conference/65 Advertisement ------------------------------------ Infix PDF Editor - Translate your client's PDF documents directly. Infix offers intuitive tools to enable direct editing of the text in any PDF. Translate and re-write entire stories, reformat, reflow and re-justify to produce perfect looking PDF results. Get the free demo at: http://www.iceni.com/refinfixpn.htm ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (8) Upcoming powwows: UK, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, US, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 10: Zagreb, Croatia (10) http://proz.com/pw/2074 10: Seoul, South Korea (1) http://proz.com/pw/2294 11: Zagreb, Croatia (8) http://proz.com/pw/2077 11: Nordeste /Fortaleza, Brazil (10) http://proz.com/pw/2078 11: Granada, Spain (14) http://proz.com/pw/2234 18: Nottingham, UK (5) http://proz.com/pw/2249 20: Paris, France (6) http://proz.com/pw/2282 25: D'dorf, Germany (55) http://proz.com/pw/1946 25: London, UK (1) http://proz.com/pw/2285 November 8: Louisville, Ky, US (4) http://proz.com/pw/1774 8: Apeldoorn, Netherlands (15) http://proz.com/pw/2207 15: Kihei, Hi, US (2) http://proz.com/pw/1997 18: Panama, Panama (1) http://proz.com/pw/2290 22: Groningen, Netherlands (7) http://proz.com/pw/2162 22: Poznań, Poland (32) http://proz.com/pw/2105 29: Glasgow, UK (2) http://proz.com/pw/2288 Advertisement ------------------------------------ CLS Communication UK is running language-neutral courses covering the main areas encountered by financial translators. Suited to junior financial translators or professionals looking to specialise in this area, the courses will run over 2 days and will be held in CLS's London offices. For more information, please visit http://www.cls-communication.com and click on company, events. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (9) ProZwiki article on translation industry in Armenia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Armenian translator Henrik Pipoyan http://www.proz.com/profile/9220 started a ProZwiki entry on the translation industry in Armenia. Excerpt from his entry: ....... Demand for translation in Armenia In Armenia, the demand for commercial translation services comes mainly from government agencies and the private sector. Government agencies and large companies usually have their in-house translators. Translators are normally part of the foreign relations departments. In the public sector translators are mainly involved in translation of agreements, laws and regulations. In the private sector the predominant subject is import and export of goods and business correspondence. ....... The complete entry can be found at http://www.proz.com/prozwiki/en:Translation_Industry_in_Armenia ProZians in Armenia are invited to comment and add more information to this article. Those in other areas are invited to contribute content related to the industry in their own countries. In this way, the ProZwiki may become a valuable resource for the entire community. Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL TRADOS provides innovative market-leading translation software to a global community of over 170,000 users! 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