A few years ago, I was walking around the ballroom at the Welcome Celebration on the first night of the ATA Annual Conference alongside one of my Project Manager colleagues. As we made our way around the tables of all the different ATA divisions, we asked each other, “Where’s the table for the PMs?” This […]
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ISO 17100:2015 Translation services – Requirements for translation services By: Monika Popiolek, ATA TCD Newsletter and Blog contributor and ISO/CEN industry standards expert ISO 17100:2015 Translation services – Requirements for translation services Published: 2015 (Ed. 1) Due for review: The standard was reviewed and confirmed in 2020, therefore the 2015 version remains valid. Number of […]
This article complements my presentation entitled Pricing Strategies in a Service Industry offered at the 2020 ATA Annual Conference. Pricing is a major lever in business profitability. According to Deloitte, a 1% improvement in pricing, holding everything else constant, can boost company profits by roughly 11%.[1] That is a much greater impact than what is […]
Professional Background Katherine (Kit) Brown-Hoekstra is an award-winning writer and consultant with a background in the life sciences and 25+ years of experience in the technical communication field. She is currently the Principal for Comgenesis, LLC, which provides consulting services and training to clients on internationalizing and improving the usability of their documentation, developing a […]
It is my wish that everyone reading this is healthy and well. We are now living in a “new normal” and many companies have had to adapt to a virtual work environment during the current global pandemic. Some companies have had to adapt their business model entirely and pivot. Most of us have had to […]
1. Call for Authors 2. Review of Article Submissions 3. Publication of Newsletter Articles on Blog 4. Blog Articles Shared on Social Media 5. Collect Articles Submitted into an Draft Outline in Document Format 6. Newsletter Draft Review 7. Newsletter Layout in DTP Format 8. Post Layout Review of Newsletter Issue by TCD 9. Final […]
Follow the steps below to add the biography of a new Leadership Council Member to ATA-TCD.com. Upload the Media Login to an ATA-TCD.com administrative account, and navigate to Media. Upload the profile image for the person’s biography. Once the image is uploaded, open the image to adjust the properties. Update the Alternative text (the text […]
In 2020, ATA made a historic move by shifting our annual conference to a remote event in response to the pandemic. Planning for the next annual conference is underway. While we hope that conference will be in person, we are also appreciative of the extended access to high quality training afforded by the remote conference […]
Industry Standards Demystified – Part 5 By: Monika Popiolek, ATA TCD Newsletter and Blog contributor and ISO/CEN industry standards expert ISO 18587:2017 defines some best practices for managing post-editing of machine translation output and sets minimum requirements that have to be met in order to demonstrate translation service provider’s (TSP’s) conformity with the standard. The […]
By Adjo Mireille Agbossoumonde In this article we will focus on the importance of following professional standards even in remote interpreting settings, self-care for remote interpreters and interpreters at large, and tips to help you deal with interpreter trauma. Now more than ever before, language service companies are providing language solutions that empower companies to […]
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