SDL Users Group

Hello fellow GALA members, For those of you who have not heard, last year, during the GALA conference 2009 in Cancun, there was a small team of conference attendees who organised a trip to Cozumel and to the Cenotes for the ultimate diving experience. We are passionate divers always looking for a wonderful opportunity and lifetime [...]

The GALA conference plenary session on May 11 started with an MT bang and ended with a donkey wallop! Entitled “The Risks and Rewards of Machine Translation” the subject matter was always going to delight and irritate to equal measure – strong emotions were stirred. Dion Wiggins of AsiaOnline, taking full advantage of his significant stage presence, launched into an energetic justification of MT as the natural pinnacle of the Darwinian evolution of translation.

Last year, I presented an overview on marketing to language service providers at GALA 2009. We covered an array of topics, including differentiating yourself in a commodity industry and using simple public relations tactics to stand apart. We touched on social media, and I was surprised by the response. While there was some excitement about the [...]