ProZ.com Newsletter: May 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) Improvements to privacy and data protection at ProZ.com (2) New ProZ.com translation contest: "The Sounds of Silence" (3) First ProZ.com Mobile contest (4) Come test the water in ProZ.com Pools (5) New search tool for language professionals: ProZ Find™ (6) Post jobs on ProZ.com from within BaccS (7) ProZ.com staff attend BP18 (8) Translator group buying means big discounts for participants (9) Upcoming powwows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) Improvements to privacy and data protection at ProZ.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Especially if you live or work in the EU, you have heard a lot about GDPR -- General Data Protection Regulation -- lately. On May 25th, the GDPR went into effect. In preparation for this, the ProZ.com team made several improvements and adjustments to the way personal information can be entered and managed by users of ProZ.com. To learn more about ProZ.com's compliance with GDPR and to review and manage your personal data settings, please see: https://go.proz.com/blog/announcing-improvements-to-privacy-and-data-protection-at-proz.com-gdpr Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL Trados Studio 2019 – Exclusive Preview Webinar The user experience for everyone, from beginners through to experts, has been put at the heart of SDL Trados Studio 2019. Sign up for this exclusive preview webinar to discover how industry insights, trends and customer feedback inspired the new features. https://www.sdltrados.com/trados2019webinar ------------------------------------ Advertisement ------------------------------------ SDL Trados Studio 2019 – Exclusive Preview Webinar From beginners to experts, the wealth of new features and enhancements in Studio 2019 will make your team more productive and deliver better results. Join this webinar to discover how industry insights, trends and customer feedback inspired new features. https://www.sdltrados.com/trados2019webinar ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) New ProZ.com translation contest: "The Sounds of Silence" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Before voluntary isolation on mobile phones, buses and trains rang with conversation. Newspaper-sellers did not leave their wares in a mute pile, but advertised them at top volume, as did vendors of cherries, violets and fresh mackerel. The theatre and the opera were a chaos of huzzahs and barracking..." A new translation contest starts today, June 1st, with a source text in English. Check it out and try your hand at translating the short text dealing with sounds and silence. ProZ.com contests are a fun way of testing and honing your translation skills while networking. They are also another way of distinguishing yourself among colleagues and potential clients. https://www.proz.com/translation-contests/44 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) First ProZ.com Mobile contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In May, the first translation contest for ProZ.com Mobile users was held. Thank you to everyone who participated with submissions and votes, and congratulations to the winners! https://go.proz.com/mobile-translation-contest Advertisement ------------------------------------ Couldn't make it to memoQfest, our 10th international conference, this year? Don't worry, follow the conference live here: https://www.memoq.com/en/memoqfest/livestream Learn more at https://www.memoq.com/en/memoqfest ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (4) Come test the water in ProZ.com Pools ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As Summer arrives (for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere), vacationers begin to gather near bodies of water for rest and relaxation. On ProZ.com, year-round, experts from all over the world are gathering in Pools™ for a different reason: to increase their professional visibility and client contact in the areas in which they specialize. If you specialize in one of these areas, there is already a Pool for you: * Copywriting * Subtitling * Project management * Interpreting * Game localization * Literary translation * Pharmaceutical translation https://www.proz.com/pools/ Advertisement ------------------------------------ DVX3 is the must-have CAT tool for all translators in 21st century. Try it now: https://atril.com/shop/ Achieve high-quality translations easily, quickly and efficiently with our most intuitive features: industry’s best automatic fuzzy-match repair module (DeepMiner), Dynamic AutoWrite, Customizable QA, and high interoperability. ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) New search tool for connecting clients with service providers: ProZ Find™ (alpha) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On ProZ.com, most work is passed via the directory and through direct profile contact. Having a strong online profile and high visibility in the directory can significantly affect the kind of potential client contact you receive. A new version of the ProZ.com directory, "ProZ Find™" is currently in alpha testing, after a round of feedback from members of the Certified PRO Network (CPN) earlier this year. ProZ Find™ is designed to be more intuitive and to make it even easier for clients to find and connect with the right language professionals for the job. https://www.proz.com/find Advertisement ------------------------------------ Wordfast is the world's number #1 provider of platform-independent translation memory software. Freelancers can install Wordfast Pro on up to two computers and it can run on Mac, PC, or Linux operating systems. Purchase Wordfast PRO 5 + 1 hour training for only $299/€260 Join the Translator Group Buy at http://www.proz.com/tgb/1129 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) Post jobs on ProZ.com from within BaccS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you a translator or team using BaccS business accounting software? The latest release connects the advanced translation project management platform to ProZ.com for job posting. BaccS business accounting software is an advanced project management platform for freelancers and teams. BaccS freelance edition is available for purchase, or bundled as part of the ProZ.com Plus membership packages. https://go.proz.com/blog/post-jobs-on-proz.com-from-within-baccs Advertisement ------------------------------------ Your style, your wording, your content. Utilize translations quickly and reliably throughout your company. Corporate machine translation powered by STAR MT Watch the short video for more information on STAR MT functionality and usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvO1DsUwNKU&list=PLqSy9LuLnz48uWOuzXYyiqPzl-Kkxivtw&index=2 www.star-group.net ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (7) ProZ.com staff attend BP18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This year's BP conference for freelance translators and interpreters was held in Vienna in April. Helen, Tatiana, and Enrique from the ProZ.com team were happily in attendance. For Enrique and Tatiana, this was their first industry conference, so they were a bit nervous! A great time was had by all three, and they report back on their experience in this blog post: https://go.proz.com/blog/three-experiences-you-dont-want-to-miss-at-bp18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (8) 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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (9) Upcoming powwows: UK, Spain, Slovakia, Canada, Italy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 2: Cardiff, UK (12 members) http://proz.com/powwow/6644 8: London, UK (30) http://proz.com/powwow/6623 9: Birmingham, UK (9) http://proz.com/powwow/6610 9: Edinburgh, UK (23) http://proz.com/powwow/6629 16: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (13) http://proz.com/powwow/6647 17: Gandia (Valencia, Spain (5) http://proz.com/powwow/6628 22: Bratislava, Slovakia (25) http://proz.com/powwow/6392 28: Montreal, Canada (34) http://proz.com/powwow/6547 July 9: Rome, Italy (6) http://proz.com/powwow/6653 - - - - - - - - - - - Your username: Membership status: Registered user KudoZ: BrowniZ: Wallet balance: $0.10 Your profile: http://www.proz.com/profile/0 - - - - - - - - - - - Forgotten password? http://proz.com/?sp=new_password ================================================================= You are receiving this email message because you signed up for email notifications of this type in your ProZ.com email preferences. 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