ProZ.com Newsletter: August 2018

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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) Nominate your favorites in translation and interpreting (2) Translation contest winners to be announced on Monday (3) Improvements made to the invoicing tool (4) How will you be celebrating International Translation Day? (5) Oh, I thought you were a native speaker... (6) Translator group buying means big discounts for participants (7) Upcoming powwows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) Nominate your favorite translation and interpreting people and resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 6th edition of the ProZ.com community choice awards has begun, and you can now nominate your favorite people and resources in various categories for both translation and interpreting. The Community choice awards are designed to help publicly recognize language professionals who are active, influential, or otherwise outstanding in different media throughout the industry. Nominees and winners are determined entirely by the ProZ.com community. https://www.proz.com/community-choice-awards Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL Trados Studio 2019 introduces a new experience for translators. You can now access any feature, setting or command 4x faster with Tell Me technology, get on-demand tutorials throughout Studio 2019, plus much more. See what’s new in SDL Trados Studio 2019 Freelance: https://www.sdltrados.com/whats-new-freelance ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ Save time and reduce project administration, with faster project creation and easy mid-project updates. Project creation is up to 28% faster with the new Project Wizard, and mid-project updates are now up to 82% quicker. See what’s new in SDL Trados Studio 2019 Professional: https://www.sdltrados.com/whats-new-lsp ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) Translation contest winners to be announced on Monday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The translation contest "The Sounds of Silence" has come to a close. Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry, those who rated entries, and a big thank you to the voters who helped defined the winners! Contest winners are scheduled to be announced this coming Monday the 27th, in the contest forum: https://www.proz.com/forum/439 Voting is still on in the translation contest "La sociedad transparente": https://www.proz.com/translation-contests/46 . If you can help select the finalists and winners there, your participation will be appreciated. Advertisement ------------------------------------ New CafeTran Espresso 2018 Acua is ready! Translate faster and easier with auto-suggestion, auto-assembling, machine translation, and with the connection to KudoZ terminology or your favorite web resources. Accept jobs from clients who use other CAT tools. Download and start using CafeTran Espresso -- for free -- today! http://www.cafetran.com/ ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (3) Improvements made to the invoicing tool ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A number of small improvements have been made to the ProZ.com invoicing tool, based on requests from members. * The invoicing tool is now easier to use on mobile devices, with a modernized look and feel. * All world currencies are now supported, and exchange rates are updated automatically. * Clients can now pay invoices online using ProZ Pay or PayPal. * Financial reports contain more information, and key reports can be exported to spreadsheets for offline use. * Many bugs have been fixed. * Many other small features requested over the years have been implemented. To date, more than 12,000 language professionals have used the ProZ.com invoicing tool. If you have not given it a test drive yet, check it out and see if it meets your invoicing needs. https://go.proz.com/blog/improvements-to-the-proz.com-invoicing-tool Advertisement ------------------------------------ memoQ 8.5 released – get the new version now! Integration with the DeepL Machine Translation plugin and a preview plugin for subtitling videos are just a few of the many new features that memoQ 8.5 brings. Discover the most recent developments at https://www.memoq.com/memoq-versions/memoq-8-5 and give it a try today! ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (4) Celebrate International Translation Day with free content from experts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Save the dates! This year, ProZ.com's annual International Translation Day celebration will be held on September 25th and 26th. Join thousands of other language professionals worldwide for two days of free online sessions with live Q&A, panel discussions, focus groups, networking opportunities, and a chance to earn up to 10 Continuing Education (CE)/Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points, plus some great deals on software via Translator Group Buy. No registration is required, and you can watch and participate from any ProZ.com page, via your ProZ.com Mobile app, or from Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, wherever you happen to be. View the full program, download calendar reminders and set browser notifications for specific sessions: https://www.proz.com/tv/ITD2018 Advertisement ------------------------------------ New to Déjà Vu X3? Check it out now: https://atril.com/shop/ Try out our 30-day fully functional free demo and achieve high-quality work easily and efficiently! Discover a wealth of unique features, from the best fuzzy match repair module utilizing both termbases, TMs and MT engines to the most intuitive and reliable terminology management system. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) Have you ever been mistaken for a native speaker of your second or third language? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A recent poll asked translators to share if they have ever been mistaken for a native speaker of their second (or third, or fourth...) language. Can you pass as a native speaker, at least for a while or sometimes? See what others had to say and add your input to the discussion: https://www.proz.com/topic/327946 Advertisement ------------------------------------ Wordfast is the world's number #1 provider of platform-independent translation memory software. Purchase Wordfast PRO 5 + 1 hour training for only $299/€260 Hurry up! Offer is only valid until September 7th. Join the Translator Group Buy at http://www.proz.com/tgb/1129 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) If you are on the market for translator software, group buying is the way to go ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is strength in numbers! Translator Group Buys (TGBs) provide the opportunity for translators to purchase CAT tools and other software together. This leads to the lowest software prices in the industry, and big savings for you if you participate. If you are currently on the market for software, be sure to check out the current and upcoming TGB campaigns: http://www.proz.com/tgb/ Advertisement ------------------------------------ Process management and control, high cost transparency, networked teamwork, higher quality – a business solution. Corporate Language Management powered by STAR CLM. Watch the short video for more information on STAR CLM functionality and usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KKY9TpB6g https://www.star-group.net ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (7) Upcoming powwows: Ukraine, China, Italy, France ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 15: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (11) http://proz.com/powwow/6689 18: Beijing, China (4) http://proz.com/powwow/6664 29: Firenze, Italy (16) http://proz.com/powwow/6676 October 1: Strasbourg, France (8) http://proz.com/powwow/6709 Full list of powwows (including those after Aug: http://www.proz.com/?sp=event/powwow_board&r_id=617 ============================================================ Thanks for reading. I hope to "see" you at the International Translation Day events on September 25th and 26th! 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