Vendor management can be a tricky task for companies with even a few dozen suppliers. As Mary Shacklett at TechRepublic writes, even a standard contract with an IT vendor explicitly lays out things such as pricing, service level agreements and terms of services — then, someone has to oversee the performance of those contractual agreements. […]
Productivity tips for the modern translator
Guest post from Carlos la Orden Tovar, Freelance Language Consultant and Industry Expert, who was speaker of our webinar "Productivity tips for the modern …
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Vendor Management: How AI Helps Us Match the Right Translator to a Project
Vendor management can be a tricky task for companies with even a few dozen suppliers. As Mary Shacklett at TechRepublic writes, even a standard contract …
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10 Tips for Becoming An Agency’s Go-To Translator
This is a challenging time to be a freelance translator. On the one hand, our industry seems to be poised for continued steady growth. On the other …
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Why the Future of the Translation Industry Will Be Open Source
In 2016, MinnPost, an independent news outlet in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, ran an excellent feature on the Gopher protocol, an early competitor to the …
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LSP Scalability: Healthy Ways to Grow Your Agency
Growth isn’t easy for language services providers. Even in a market that itself has steadily grown for a decade and weathered a global recession. LSP …
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Mark Your Calendars: Forward-Thinking Conferences for Language Professionals in 2017
Continuing education and skills upgrading is an essential part of a professional’s life. If you’re working on building your expertise and knowledge in …
Using Language To Change The World
Translators without Borders, empowered by MateCat In the spring of 2014, an outbreak of the Ebola virus began to spread quickly throughout West Africa, …
The Translation Industry Must Rethink How It Does Business
A convergence of circumstances are disrupting the very business model of translation. LSPs down to individual freelancers are feeling the pressure, …
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