Two virtual events from Proz on International Translation Day

nospam@example.com (Carl) — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:00:30 +0200

Translators' platform Proz.com is going to be staging its 7th annual virtual conference shortly, in celebration of International Translation Day on Wednesday, 30 September 2015.

This conference is actually one of two training events for translators running over two whole days starting from 29 September.

100+ hours of scheduled and on-demand sessions and content

30+ hours of LIVE content including Q&A sessions, panel discussions, chat rooms and more

Panel discussions on “Terminology management” and “Customer relationship management”

Exhibit booths where you can chat live with exhibitors and software vendors (including prize giveaways)

Earn 10 ATA CE credits for attending

Save up to 50% on popular CAT tools including SDL Trados Studio, memoQ, Wordfast, Déjà Vu and more

Here are some of the topics that are going to be discussed according to Proz:

How to find direct clients and run a business that you love

Translation or Interpreting? & the Emerging Market for Hybrid Communication Models

Getting in the game: a 'how to' for translation beginners

The beauty of machine translation

10 essential tips that are most helpful for a professional translator

Where to find clients and how to approach them and do the follow-up without sounding too pushy

Glossary & terminology management

Panel discussion on client relationship management

Panel discussion on leveraging voice-recognition technology for greater efficiency.

View the full programme here, after which you can click here to register as an attendee. (It's free!)

N.B. If you attend at least one live event, this will give you free access to recordings after the event, which you can watch any time for a period of at least 90 days.

For events concerning CAT tools on 29 September, see the special programme here. This will include the following talks:

Free Tools for Translators

Technical translation: is it really about terminology?

Setting up an MT system

Managing client expectations

Economics of pricing for the translation industry

Panel discussion on meeting clients

Panel discussion on machine translation

Medical documents for academic publishing: creating English content with precision, accuracy and style

How to participate in EU tendering procedures for translation services.

I'm sure you'll find something worthwhile as the topics are very varied. There are also quite a lot of pre-recorded webinars to accompany the two-day event that you can watch on demand, i.e. whenever it suits you.

Regards,

Carl

image: © Proz.com

Related links

FIT (the International Federation of Translators) on International Translation Day

The British Library's day-long programme of events on translation in London on 2 October ("An opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers to gather and debate")

Free translator training at Proz

nospam@example.com (Carl) — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:40:00 +0100

Proz, the international translators' portal, is going to run a series of free webinars for registered users in March.

According to the programme of events now available here, the sessions will mainly be covering computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools:

Wordfast Pro 3.3

memoQ 2013 R2

SDL Trados Studio 2014

Déjà Vu X3 (aka "DVX3")

Fluency

and Wordbee Freelancer.

In addition, you will also be able to learn more about utilities like WordFinder, a web-based dictionary suite, and Translation Office 3000, a package for managing your translation and proof-reading assignments, your customers and your accounting. Several of these programs are now available in brand new versions with fresh interfaces.

There are also going to be two sessions on getting in touch with potential customers via Proz's own web platform. At the time of writing this post, places were still available for the session on 20 March.

To participate in any of these events, all you have to do is register to attend them. If you aren't a registered user yet, sign up for free or take out a paid subscription, depending on what features you would like to use.

Proz.com regularly stages training events for translators and interpreters, not just giving them an opportunity to learn about the latest software tools, but also to improve their knowledge of subject areas they work with such as legal contracts, interpreting in court or for the police, medical translation, tourism and travel, software localisation and audio subtitling, to mention just a few examples.

Some of the events are recorded and can be viewed any time, albeit at a small cost. These are known as "on-demand courses".

The training Proz offers isn't just in English, but that does seem to be the main lingua franca used. Sometimes presentations are held in other languages; some of the events in March are going to take place in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian or Chinese, for instance.

Quality-wise, the free webinars and "virtual conferences" I have attended so far have generally been reasonable to good. Not brilliant, but generally interesting. Some were a bit too commercial for my taste, but still, you learn to pick out the cherries after a while...

Why not take a look at the events lined up in March and see if there are any that interest you?

Regards,

Carl

images: screen shots taken from Proz.com

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