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--------------------- ProZ.com Newsletter --------------------- Your ProZ.com username: (See bottom for more details related to your ProZ.com account) Promote yourself - become a member! Join now: http://www.proz.com/join (1) Find salespeople, vendor managers, etc., via directory (2) You can now better specify by which services you are found (3) Collaboration requests from the ProZ.com translation center (4) Survey: Your ProZ.com membership (5) Survey: Your use of ProZ.com (6) Survey for former members of ProZ.com (7) The Win-Win Project (8) ATA Chronicle article on Translators without Borders (9) New forum for Panjabi (10) 81 year-old builds dictionary to save her dying language (11) More webinars on meeting new clients in January (12) Thanks for participating in the Giving Tuesday drive (13) NYU School of Professional Studies (14) Upcoming powwows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) New! 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Visit the directory: http://www.proz.com/translator-directory/ Forum announcement: - "New options for directory searches": http://www.proz.com/topic/294118 - "Now possible to search CVs from the directory: http://www.proz.com/topic/295915 See your directory ranking (and how to improve it): http://www.proz.com/guidance-center/directory-rank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) You can now better specify the services by which you are found in the directory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ProZ.com directory now supports searches for more types of services. It is now possible to search for different types of interpreting services, and to search for users with experience in other activities related to providing translation services If you offer any of these services, be sure to update your profile accordingly: https://www.proz.com/settings/ In response to user requests, it is also now possible to search CVs by keyword (provided those CVs are made public by the profile owner). Visit the directory: http://www.proz.com/translator-directory/ Forum announcement: - "New options for directory searches": http://www.proz.com/topic/294118 - "Now possible to search CVs from the directory": http://www.proz.com/topic/295915 See your directory ranking (and how to improve it): http://www.proz.com/guidance-center/directory-rank Advertisement ------------------------------------ Hear what users have to say about SDL Trados Studio 2015 The new SDL Trados Studio 2015 has evolved with the collaboration of users, businesses and developers. Watch users explain their favorite new features with some video demos and see why Studio 2015 is the best version yet. Discover more » http://translationzone.com/professional-user-favorites ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ Hear what users have to say about SDL Trados Studio 2015 The new SDL Trados Studio 2015 has evolved with the collaboration of users worldwide. 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Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) Survey: Your use of ProZ.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ProZ.com site team is looking for feedback from those who use the site but have never been paying members. Are you willing to take a few minutes to share your perspective? Thank you for your consideration! Complete the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G2KYMG2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) Survey for former members of ProZ.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have been a paying member of ProZ.com in the past but are not one currently, the site team is interested in hearing from you. Please take five minutes to share your situation with us! Complete the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G8GHFW2 Advertisement ------------------------------------ MateCat is an open source online CAT tool, which is free for both LSPs and freelance translators, including free and fast technical support. 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Subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/FYeQj ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (9) New forum for Panjabi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new forum has been created for speakers of Panjabi: http://www.proz.com/forum/1783 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (10) Last remaining speaker of Native American language painstakingly creates dictionary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I'm uncertain about my language and who wants to keep it alive," Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language, says. At 81, she and her grandson are building a dictionary to document her language. See more of this and other stories in the Translation news section: http://www.proz.com/translation-news/?p=118640 Advertisement ------------------------------------ Transit NXT – the ideal tool for translation and localization! 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