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Medical Writers to Convene at Documentation and Training Life Sciences, June 23-26, Indianapolis

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Medical, science, and marketing writers, and health care information technologists, will convene in downtown Indianapolis this June at the Documentation and Training Life Sciences Conference to explore ways to reduce the amount of time and energy it takes to create ...

Filed under: Content Quality Management : Localization : Medical Writing : Technical Writing : Translation

Current Topics in Medical Localization

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

By Richard Sikes, special to The Content Wrangler; Reprinted with permission, MultiLingual magazine, Copyright March 2006, issue #78

If two localization professionals begin to chat about the special problems that their work entails, a fair amount of energy is ...

Filed under: Life Sciences : Localization

Case Study in Controlling Documentation Quality with acrocheck: Assisted Writing and Editing at SAS

Saturday, March 22, 2008

By John Kohl, SAS Institute (reprinted with permission from Client Side News)

In a previous article, Uwe Muegge speculated about why we don’t hear about more companies using controlled languages. According to Muegge, “anyone new to the field may have a hard time ...

Filed under: Content Quality Management : Localization : Structured Content : Translation

Chinglish: Lost In Translation

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

We’ve discovered yet another humorous book many of our readers may want to add to their collections. It’s called Chinglish: Lost in Translation (Gibbs Smith), a hysterical photo book loaded with images of so-called Chinglish signs. The author, Oliver Lutz Radtke ...

Filed under: Globalization : Language : Localization : Translation

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

Volumizing: Good For Hair, Bad For Content

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Life in the 21st Century centers around information. In practically every waking moment, we create it, we receive it, we process it, we pass it on, we ignore it, but most of all, we need it. Those who process information for a living have developed a relentless ...

Filed under: Localization : Technical Writing : Translation

Localizing Nutrition: Case Study of McDonald’s

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

How do you design icons for 109 countries and not offend cultural sensibilities? Does your company ever have to employ visual icons in multiple locations to visually communicate critical info? Have you encountered situations where your icon was misunderstood, or even ...

Filed under: Localization

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