Global Talk

Bob Doyle has announced his new site, http://www.cms-global.org, a resource on globalization and content management. By means of filtered RSS feeds from CMS-News.org, it aggregates bloggers in the globalization field, including John Yunker, Don DePalma, and Multilingual magazine’s Blogos.

The site has glossaries of terms for globalization, localization, and machine translation, as well as links to bilingual glossaries in specialized fields. It also lists professional organizations worldwide.

The home page has been localized into a few languages. For example, the site serves Spanish to a browser set to Spanish. Bob hopes to do more languages (especially right-to-left languages and Asian double-byte languages) in the future.

The CM Pros Globalization Community will be working with the website committee to localize the CM Pros website navigation into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, right-to-left Hebrew, and double-byte Japanese.

Bob’s EContent column of October 3, 2006 is “Localizing Your Content.”

Mary Kabza, STC Director of Marketing and Membership, has announced STC’s partnership with the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA).

This partnership will allow LISA and STC members to benefit equally from each organization’s services. LISA is “the leading international forum for organizations doing business globally.” LISA offers valuable guidance in conducting business internationally, including consulting services for globalization, research and publications, standards development, networking, and educational opportunities. To learn more, visit www.lisa.org

STC members pay the same rates that LISA members pay to attend LISA events such as LISA Forum Europe: Doing Business in an Expanding Europe, in Warsaw, Poland November 13-17, 2006. For more about LISA Forum Europe, visit www.lisa.org/events/2006warsaw Information about upcoming LISA events is being featured on the STC website and included in the RSS feed highlighting STC news and related events.

STC is continuing to develop our relationship with LISA, and wokring on finding new ways for STC members to benefit from LISA events and services. For example, plans are being developed for a separate STC forum on the LISA website. Soon, STC members will be able to enter their STC membership ID numbers when they register on LISA’s site. There will be similar LISA links on the STC website.

In April 2005, the TecDoc Net Report estimated the number of potential jobs in the technical communications field in Europe at 227,000. The complete report is available from:
http://www.tceurope.org/tecdocnet/tecdocnet_index.htm
(http://www.tceurope.org/pdf/tecdoc.pdf).

Please welcome our 43 new members who joined in September. Updated membership counts will be reported when available.