Look around you: this is your house and this is your life now. For some in our localization industry, this is just life as we know it. For others, it’s a new way that was hard to adapt to in the beginning. Now we are all pros at it. Worrying about the health of our […]
Tell us who you are? Mimi Moore – W.L. Program Director, Marketing Content Where around the world are you based? Monterey, California What do you do in the localization/globalization world? I am a Content Marketing Manager at SDL. I have 20+ years of experience in localization, mostly project management, account management and sales. This experience […]
Headlines like “Tips for setting up your perfect home office space” are currently popping up like weeds, and I cannot help but think “I wish I had your problems”. For 2 months my husband and I have been co-working with our 4-year-old daughter – and to put it mildly – it has been a real […]
While the COVID-19 pandemic is presenting countless new challenges to our daily lives – although less so to our work environment, as Karen Gammarota notes so well in her recent blog post – as women, we continue to be confronted with stereotypical workplace barriers. Some of these include access to the necessary tools and strategies […]
Working from home is easier for some and harder for others. As someone who works from home regularly, I would like to share with you some of my favorite tips and best practices that I have learned and tested over the years to make work from home work for you. 1. Play around with our […]
Tell us who you are? Tanya Sapty Prabhu, Mentoring Manager Where around the world are you based? Toronto, Canada #WLEC What do you do in the localization/globalization world? I am a client person, technical writer and French to English translator. I founded my own company to produce translations written and proofread for both accuracy, and […]
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California, is one of the few schools around the world with a Localization-focused program for graduate students. It is therefore no wonder that students from all over the world come to Monterey to get their master’s degree in Translation and Localization Management at MIIS. According to […]
If you think of the real beating heart of our professional world, i.e. the millions of freelance translators working from their own homes, it’s easy to realize that remote work has been instilled in the DNA of our industry globally since forever, as a true enabler of anything we do. Every day, remote interpreters help […]
Adapting your business to the global coronavirus pandemic Is your business looking to engage with international consumers in new ways, as it adapts to the changes resulting from different countries’ reactions to the new coronavirus? If so, website localization is likely near the top of your task-list (if it’s not, write it there now!). In […]
Tell us who you are? Agustina Pioli Where are you based? Córdoba, Argentina #WLAR What do you do in localization/globalization world? I’m one of the Directors of Strategic Accounts at Latamways, a Latin American localization and communications company. I am a Marketing Program Director for W.L. focusing on Community (Global Social Media and Communication). In […]