3 Steps to Successful Translation Management

is being presented by Andres Heuberger, President, of ForeignExchange Translations, and airs on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Translators have been around since the time of the Babylonians, yet the US translation industry is still relatively new. Yellow Pages translation bureaus are a dime a dozen, but pharmaceutical, device and diagnostics companies need a true partner that can help them effectively manage the translation process.

This audio conference gives you the skills to evaluate different vendors, service delivery methods and quality. It also enables you to put in place a process to document, measure, audit and improve your overall translation activities.

Best Practices for Creating & Translating Global Content

Today, life sciences companies are experiencing tremendous pressure from regulatory bodies to conform to mounting numbers of industry standards. At the same time, they must always look to improve cost and time efficiencies and maintain the highest levels of quality and safety. All of these pressures present a daunting challenge for companies who then need to translate and localize critical information into multiple languages around the world. They can no longer rely on paper-based, manual business processes that are time consuming and error prone. Fortunately, new technologies are revolutionizing the functionality of translation management systems, improving a company's ability to manage and translate information into multiple languages through a set of seamless business processes and best practices.

In this presentation, we discuss globalization best practices to help your organization scale your global reach, growing your business and your bottom line.

Best Practices for Creating & Translating Global Content was presented by Steve Billings & Bill Rabkin, Idiom Technologies and aired on 2007-11-29. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing

Going global? Many of the problems encountered during the localization process can be traced back to the earliest stages of developing product documentation. The good news is most of these problems can be avoided by following a few basic rules.

John Smart has spent over two decades helping companies market to 218 countries. In this presentation, he will describe the 21 most common problems encountered in writing for a global audience, identifying each type of error, describing the problem and showing how to make corrections. The presentation uses real-life examples to highlight potential cultural problems, including inappropriate number and color references, and the confusing use of dates and numbers. Attendees will be able to put the conference material to immediate use in improving their technical literature.

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing is previously recorded and is available to download at www.fxconferences.com

Preparing to Translate: Tips for Faster, Easier, Cheaper Localization

We live in the era of globalization, when people are accustomed to dealing with colleagues and companies all over the world. and yet language barriers are still creating obstacles and challenges. In the life sciences and other industries where accuracy of information is paramount, getting your content to cross language boundaries flawlessly is still a difficult and often costly endeavor. Language will always have a human dimension, and communicating from one country or culture to the next requires planning, preparation and forethought. However, a little preparation can go a long way towards helping your company achieve substantial cost savings in the global market.

In this conference our speaker, veteran translation industry expert Sandra La Brasca, gives advice on how to prepare your materials for translation. She also illustrates how writing for translation ultimately results in cheaper, faster, more accurate global products.

Preparing to Translate: Tips for Faster, Easier, Cheaper Localization is being presented by Sandra La Brasca, Solutions Development Director, with ForeignExchange Translations, Inc. and airs on Tuesday, November 24, 2009. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Avoiding the Top 20 Global Documentation Errors

The biggest single hurdle to a smooth globalization effort is written documentation. However, with careful planning, companies can remove communications obstacles before they arise. The technique described in this presentation is called "PokaYoke," a Japanese term for any device or software that can prevent process errors. Learn how you can build quality into your documentation and translation. The presentation covers the top 20 errors that a linguistic "PokaYoke" can find, monitor and correct.

John Smart has spent over two decades helping companies write technical documentation for readers in 218 countries. This presentation uses real-life examples to highlight terms, words and phrases guaranteed to fail any quality control. Attendees will be encouraged to adopt a "PokaYoke" approach to their localization and technical documentation.

Avoiding the Top 20 Global Documentation Errors was presented by John Smart, President, of SMART Communications, and is previously recorded. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Developing Software for Global Markets

Software application development is rarely designed, built and tested with wide-ranging locale requirements in mind. As a result, there is often an expensive surprise waiting when it comes time to translate or simply support user data like complex character sets, sorting, and variable formatting. Cultural differences in expressing things like dates, numerical units, postal addresses, phone numbers, and currencies represent a whole new level of difficulty. However, when internationalization is performed effectively, software can be quickly leveraged for any worldwide market opportunity.

This presentation provides an overview of how software internationalization issues can ripple through an application, but more importantly how they can be systematically diagnosed and efficiently addressed.

Developing Software for Global Markets was presented by Adam Asnes, President, of LingoPort and aired on 2006-02-16. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

How to Write for a Global Audience

In today's world, technical documentation must be designed for multiple audiences - both the users who read the text in translation, and those for whom English is a second language. By using Controlled English and authoring with an eye to translation, companies can make the entire process of product globalization faster, cheaper and less prone to errors.

This audio conference provides some basic guidelines on how to write for a global audience, enabling attendees to reduce the cost and improve the quality of translations, improve training and customer support, and protect their companies from litigation under the "failure to warn" principle.

How to Write for a Global Audience was presented by John Smart, President, with SMART Communications. For more details, or to purchase a download of this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Best Practices for Back Translation as a QA Tool

Back translation is the translation of an already-translated text back into its original language. The use of back translation as a QA tool is becoming more prevalent in the life sciences industries, as often required by regulatory industries. These translated materials include product information, labels, informed consent forms, websites, software strings and a variety of other written content.

The issues presented by this growing trend in back translation are complex and often misunderstood by those removed from the localization process. Back translation as a QA tool can be successfully accomplished when these issues are fully understood and the process properly applied.

Best Practices for Back Translation as a QA Tool was presented on 2008-08-06 and is available for download at www.fxconferences.com

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing

Going global? Many of the problems encountered during the globalization process can be traced back to the earliest stages of developing product documentation. The good news is most of these problems can be avoided by following a few basic rules.

John Smart has spent over two decades helping companies market to 218 countries. In this presentation, he will describe the 21 most common problems encountered in writing for a global audience, identifying each type of error, describing the problem and showing how to make corrections. The presentation will use real-life examples to highlight potential cultural problems, including inappropriate number and color references, and the confusing use of dates and numbers. Attendees will be able to put the conference material to immediate use in improving their technical literature.

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing is previously recorded, and available for download at www.fxconferences.com

How to Write for a Global Audience

In today's world, technical documentation must be designed for multiple audiences - both the users who read the text in translation, and those for whom English is a second language. By using Controlled English and authoring with an eye to translation, companies can make the entire process of product globalization faster, cheaper and less prone to errors.

This audio conference provides some basic guidelines on how to write for a global audience, enabling attendees to reduce the cost and improve the quality of translations, improve training and customer support, and protect their companies from litigation under the "failure to warn" principle.

How to Write for a Global Audience was presented by John Smart, President, SMART Communications on 2006-05-18 and is now available for download at www.fxconferences.com

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing

Going global? Many of the problems encountered during the globalization process can be traced back to the earliest stages of developing product documentation. The good news is most of these problems can be avoided by following a few basic rules.

John Smart has spent over two decades helping companies market to 218 countries. In this presentation, he will describe the 21 most common problems encountered in writing for a global audience, identifying each type of error, describing the problem and showing how to make corrections. The presentation uses real-life examples to highlight potential cultural problems, including inappropriate number and color references, and the confusing use of dates and numbers. Listeners will be able to put the conference material to immediate use in improving their technical literature.

21 Steps to Easier Globalization through Better Writing was recorded on 2005-09-27 and is now available for download at www.fxconferences.com