ProZ.com Newsletter: December 2012

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--------------------- 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) Thank you for making "Giving Tuesday" at ProZ.com a success (2) New translation contest, submission phase open (3) Improve your translation quality system (4) Localization spotlight: the Slovenian team (5) Best wishes for 2013 from the ProZ.com site team (6) Legal terminology online training (7) Discount pricing for 2013 international conference (8) How to write résumés and cover letters that sell (9) Organize your own virtual event (10) Welcome new ProZ.com members (11) ProZ.com membership: what are people saying about it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) Thank you for making "Giving Tuesday" at ProZ.com a success ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, November 27th is being called "Giving Tuesday" by some, an opportunity to give to charity and otherwise help others. To mark the occasion, ProZ.com announced that it would match donations made to Translator's without Borders' Fund a translator campaign. Translators came forward to pledge donations, and together with ProZ.com's matching, 6,000 dollars was raised (funding for six translators for an entire year). Thank you to all who donated time, work, or money to this and other causes throughout the month, and all of 2012! http://www.proz.com/topic/239618 Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES Take a look at the productivity-enhancing features of SDL TRADOS STUDIO 2011 PROFESSIONAL http://bit.ly/StudioProfessional , the world’s favorite translation software tool. Enjoy special ProZ.com discounted prices; see our exclusive ProZ.com offers at http://www.proz.com/tgb/704 & http://bit.ly/ProZLSPShop ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL TRADOS Wherever you are in the world this festive holiday, we all love a free gift and a good saving… Join SDL’S Translators Group Buy and save up to 40% OFF SDL TRADOS STUDIO 2011 and get AutoSuggest Creator & QuickStart FREE! JOIN NOW - http://www.proz.com/tgb/704 - limited spaces available! ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) New translation contest, submission phase open ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new translation contest is underway. The theme of this contest is "Contemporary society", and source texts are currently available in English, French, Spanish, Basque, Bulgarian, Georgian and Indonesian. Submission will be open until January 3rd, 2013. Take a break from your normal routine and test your skills with fellow translators. http://www.proz.com/translation-contests/31 Advertisement ------------------------------------ Don’t forget to buy your Wordfast Classic or Wordfast Pro license before the end of the year to save 15%. Beginning January 1, 2013, the price of an individual Wordfast Classic or Wordfast Pro license will increase, so buy now and save! http://www.proz.com/tgb/697 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (3) Improve your translation quality system ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Learn how to view and check terminology in glossaries or in exported translation memories and how to check consistency between glossaries and TMs. Also, discover powerful quality assurance (QA) functions and QA features that can be used on an "ongoing translation" (edited files) against a TM and glossary, and learn how to quickly identify any mismatches. Numerical mismatches will be covered too. Feb 12 - Everything You Need to Improve your Quality System Now! (Part 1) http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7340 Feb 19 - Everything You Need to Improve your Quality System Now! (Part 2) http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7342 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (4) Localization spotlight: the Slovenian team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Each month, the ProZ.com newsletter features an article highlighting one of the ProZ.com localization teams and the work they are doing to bring the ProZ.com site to their native languages. This month's spotlight is on the the Slovenian L10n team: Vito Smolej -- http://www.proz.com/profile/91005 Leemeta -- http://www.proz.com/profile/608092 Iris Mesko -- http://www.proz.com/profile/583070 Tomi Dobaj -- http://www.proz.com/profile/72998 Ms.Straus -- http://www.proz.com/profile/718567 Kristina Licen -- http://www.proz.com/profile/141053 Mojra Vogelnik Skerlj -- http://www.proz.com/profile/1573558 Vito Smolej, the team coordinator, had this to say about the team's work: "After several years of steady work, and with over 115600 words translated, our initial reason for localizing the ProZ.com user interface still stands: Slovenian ProZ.com members are ready to contribute their share to ProZ.com, the largest language professionals' platform on the internet. We want ProZ.com to keep standing out from the crowd and see the wheat gets separated from the chaff with respect to Slovenian language professionals as well. Due to our involvement we hope customers will know better who to turn to for quality service, involving Slovenian language. Our work amplifies the advantages offered to us by ProZ.com allowing us to strengthen and expand our customer base." If you are a ProZ.com member and you would like to join a localization team in your native language, contact site staff to volunteer. http://www.proz.com/support/ Advertisement ------------------------------------ memoQ 6.2 features the Muse's kiss, AutoPick, preview for Adobe InDesign files, importing SDL Trados Studio packages, the Zen, project backup and restore, and more. 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The fully functional program is available for a 30-day evaluation. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) Best wishes for 2013 from the ProZ.com site team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the end of 2012 approaches, the ProZ.com site team would like to thank all ProZ.com paying members for their support of the site, and extend their best wishes for a productive 2013. http://www.proz.com/topic/239375 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) Legal terminology online training ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you interested in working in the legal translation specialty area? If your language pairs include English, learn the meaning of English language legal terminology in order to better understand legal documents. Jan 17 - Trademarks Terminology http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7264 Jan 24 - Copyright Terminology http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7267 Jan 31 - Public International Law Terminology http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7268 Feb 7 - Civil Litigation Terminology http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7271 Feb 14 - Privacy and Confidential Information Terminology http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7274 Advertisement ------------------------------------ MemSource is a cloud-based CAT tool that lets you work online as well as offline. On Windows and Mac. And MemSource Personal edition is completely FREE! Why not give it a try? SIGN UP FOR THE FREE PERSONAL EDITION: http://bitly.com/VTd9WS ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ MemSource is becoming increasingly popular with LSPs. Why? For instance: All your freelancers get a free CAT tool – MemSource Editor – for both online and offline translating. And it’s so easy to use. What a relief... START A 30-DAY FREE TRIAL NOW: http://bitly.com/VDs101 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (7) 2013 International ProZ.com conference in Porto, Portugal - End of year discount pricing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 2013 international conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, over the weekend of June 8th and 9th, 2013. End of year discount pricing is available now until January 1st, 2013. Visit the conference page for full event information and to purchase your seat now at the discounted price. Pricing will increase by 10% after the new year. http://www.proz.com/conference/388 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (8) How to write résumés and cover letters that sell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Feb 8 - Standing out: Writing résumés and cover letters that sell http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/7684 Learn some of the basic concepts of marketing and how to implement them in your marketing strategy to grow your business and target new prospects more effectively. This webinar includes a workshop portion, in which participants can submit their marketing content to be reviewed by the trainer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (9) ProZ.com provides the tools and opportunities to organize your own virtual event ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ProZ.com will provide the platform and support to members who wish to organize a virtual event in 2013. If you have an idea for a virtual event you would like to see, now is the chance to have a hand in making it happen. For more information contact [email protected] or complete the virtual event proposal form. http://proz.me/ProposeVirtualEvent Advertisement ------------------------------------ The Swiss Knife of CAT tools LogiTerm, Terminotix’s flagship product, is renowned to be one of the most useful and versatile CAT tools out there. Whether it is document alignment, unilingual or bilingual search, terminology management, pretranslation, term extraction, etc. we have it all. Email [email protected] to request a free 45-day trial version. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (10) Welcome new ProZ.com members ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More than a thousand translation professionals joined ProZ.com as paying members during the recent year-end campaign. A warm welcome to new members, and as always, thank you to all members (new and old) for making ProZ.com possible. http://www.proz.com/topic/239516 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (11) ProZ.com membership: what are people saying about it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An interesting thread of discussion was recently opened on LinkedIn. The question posed was: Is ProZ.com membership worth it? http://www.linkedin.com/groups/I-am-not-too-familiar-138763.S.194039852 ============================================================ If you are interested in staying abreast of translation-related news, you can find it all in one place at the ProZ.com Translation news center. http://www.proz.com/translation-news/ ============================================================ That's all for the ProZ.com newsletter for this year. Thank you for reading, and here's to an exciting, productive start for 2013! 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