What is Content, Anyway?
The word content is repeated so frequently it seems to lose its significance. Let’s take a step back and answer a simple question – What is content, anyway? Here’s what some of our in-house content experts had to say.
From Basic to Beautiful: How to Create Great Quality Content
Lots of what I read these days is about tools. Authoring tools, content management systems, translation management systems, terminology management systems, the list goes on and on. Tools are important. Tools have come a long way over the years. They provide many...Plain English, Wikipedia, and Medicine
Sometimes, you have to look beyond your immediate surroundings and apply your knowledge to help humanity. At least, that’s how I feel. I’ve been in the content industry for almost 30 years. I’ve spent most of my life working with fabulous, exciting...
Why We (Really) Need Plain English
Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Buffer This morning, I was taking a nice walk in the neighborhood. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sign: Oh no!! A Mitigated Negative Declaration! Wow, that sounds terrible! I wonder what the heck that is? It certainly caught my...
Translation Memory – Content, Context and Cost
By far, translation memory (TM) was one of the most revolutionary inventions in the world of computer aided translation. Think about the beauty of it. As a translator works on content, the source and target segments (called a translation unit) are stored in a...
Five Reasons You Need a Multilingual Content Quality Audit
You need a multilingual content quality audit. Yes. You. You do. If you translate (and, really, who doesn’t translate nowadays?), it is almost certainly time to evaluate the quality of your translations. How can you tell? Here are five reasons that you might...
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