Business Owners Behaving Badly

I am reprinting a blog that was emailed to me by a friend.  I would like to point to and give credit to the author that wrote this post, Shannon Willoby, and let you all know that the original article is available at: http://socialmediatoday.com/shannonw/937656/business-lessons-walking-dead-don-t-be-shane?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter.  Now, this blog post is based off of characters...

Does high quality translation start before a single word is translated?

What should be discussed between client and translator to ensure the highest quality translation possible?  Surprisingly enough, there are often a lot of assumptions made between translator and client, particularly when a client is a new translation buyer. If one were to give a document to several different translators, one would receive back just as many different translations.  There is often...

Translation pricing for today’s “prosperous” translator

I love to read translation oriented blogs, articles on the translation business, and opinions from translators.  Translators are very vocal about what they like and do not like about this industry, and there is a wealth of information out there for anyone that wants to learn about this business. I read a lot of articles regarding translation prices, and a lot of opinions regarding how one, as a...

Linguists Needed for 2012! Please take a minute to tell us about yourself….

Global2Local has been very blessed and we are only likely to grow further.  Over the last several months, we have been working with another woman-owned small business by the name of LSPware.  LSPware has developed a scheduling system that is second to none, it is a cloud-based software system for language services companies meant to be more advanced than any other system currently...

When it comes to Facebook, should we just be grateful we can communicate at all?

As most of you by now know, Facebook has the ability to translate one’s sentences or content from one language to another.  Public content can now easily be transferred into the user’s language of choice.  How?  Facebook’s feature uses the newly integrated Bing translator. Anyone who has played around with the Facebook translations or, for that matter, web translations of any kind, know...