MediaLocate Vendor Manager Leona Zacek (left) and Senior Account Manager Mimi Moore (right) met with TILM students seeking internships and full-time positions. The Language Industry’s Premier Job Recruiting Fair On Friday, February 15, 2019 MediaLocate participated in the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Annual Translation, Interpretation and Localization Management (TILM) Career Fair in Monterey, […]
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MediaLocate Celebrates Its 24th Year at the 2019 TILM Career Fair
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Fun, Language Service Provider (LSP), Localization, Medialocate Events, News, Translation | No Comments February 21st, 2019
Best Language Selection for Global Markets
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, Global Branding, Global Marketing Strategy, Globalization, Language Localization, Legal, Local Markets, Translation, website localization, World's Writing Systems | No Comments January 8th, 2019
Best Language Selection for Global Markets: Where and How Should You Invest? Guest blog post by Ben Cornelius, former Language Intelligence and Globalization Director at Adobe, VMware, and PayPal When asking “What languages should I localize into for the greatest benefits?” the short (albeit frustrating) answer is most often, “it depends”. It’s true: Communication is key […]
JLS LANGUAGE NOW A MEDIALOCATE COMPANY
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Language Service Provider (LSP), Localization Provider, Medialocate Events, News | No Comments October 25th, 2018
MediaLocate’s latest addition: Welcome JLS Plus! Pacific Grove, Calif. – MediaLocate announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition and integration of JLS Language into the MediaLocate family of companies. Located in Menlo Park, California, the new entity has changed its name slightly to JLS Plus (dba JLS Language Plus), to reflect the enhanced […]
5 Lessons in Achievement from a 15-time Guinness World Record Holder
The first person to circumnavigate the globe – using only the power of his body – speaks at MediaLocate This week, MediaLocate hosted the great adventurer Erden Eruç for an inspirational talk about his incredible five-year journey across the globe, which included rowing, kayaking, hiking and cycling. Nine hundred and thirty four days at sea […]
GDPR for Language Services
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Global Marketing Strategy, Globalization, Language Technology, Legal, News | No Comments May 24th, 2018
What you need to know… What is GDPR? Customers, consumers, and users can now enjoy more transparency into how their data is being used, thanks to Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. The regulation affects any businesses that handle or transmit personal information of individuals inside the European Union. Effectively, not just companies […]
AI and Language Automation: Opportunity or Calamity?
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Global Marketing Strategy, Language Localization, Language Service Provider (LSP), Language Technology, machine translation, Multimedia Localization, News, Translation | No Comments March 30th, 2018
Is complete push-button localization imminent or hyped? With the fast pace of innovation in the language services industry, what should globally expanding companies look for and on what kind of localization provider should they place their bets? Or will the need for language services providers soon disappear altogether? To get an insider perspective read the […]
7 Ways to Stretch Your Localization Budget
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, Cost Savings, Language Service Provider (LSP), Language Technology, Localization, machine translation, Translation, website localization | No Comments February 14th, 2018
Looking for ways to stretch your localization budget? Here are 7 money-saving tips to get the most out of your globalization dollars: In the habit of sending PDFs? Clients can help their localization service provider by supplying the source files from which a final document or video was created. Although very useful for reference, PDFs […]
AI, Localization, and China
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, Global Branding, Global Marketing Strategy, Globalization, Language Technology, Local Markets, machine translation | No Comments January 25th, 2018
Hangzhou City, China. A Chinese Project Manager’s Perspective. Imagine a world where you can pay for everything with your smartphone, where wearable devices translate everything on-demand, where urban traffic flows are optimized by AI, and where daily necessities like bicycles, umbrellas, and cars are sharable. Welcome to Hangzhou, China’s first “Smart City”! Hi, my name is […]
Before Your Company “Sails the Seven Seas”…
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog | No Comments October 6th, 2017
Before Your Company “Sails the Seven Seas,” Consider These Essential ”Seven Cs”: Seven Core Components of a Successful Global Product Launch Effective website, product or media globalization goes well beyond translation of your English content. In order to compete in the global market place, globalization services must address the needs of target locales, while concurrently […]
MediaLocate Releases Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Translation Connector
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog | No Comments August 21st, 2017
Reduce Time, Cost, and Headaches with the New Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Translation Connector. MediaLocate is launching a new Translation Management Automation (TMA) connector, a module that helps web content and marketing professionals manage translations directly from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Users are able to select content, request translations and, once the translations are complete, automatically import them into each locale, ready for […]
7 REASONS WHY YOUR MEDICAL TRANSLATION PARTNER MAY NOT BE HIPAA-COMPLIANT
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Language Service Provider (LSP), Legal, Localization Provider, Medical Translations, Translation | No Comments August 3rd, 2017
How carefully have you screened your Language Services Provider? And how carefully have they screened themselves? As we mentioned several months ago, medical translation can be complicated. To begin with, your company needs to make sure your Localization Services Provider (LSP) is scalable. Can they handle the complexities of large, multilingual medical projects with tight deadlines? How […]
MediaLocate Rises in Ranks of Top 100 Global Translation Companies
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Language Localization, Language Service Provider (LSP), Localization Provider, News, Testimonials, Translation | No Comments July 14th, 2017
…remaining in the Top 25 in North America (#22) and moving up 3 spots to #82, worldwide. In its “Who’s Who in Language Services and Technology: 2017” report, the market research firm Common Sense Advisory states, “Tens of thousands of providers around the globe work with hundreds of thousands of professional linguists to deliver services […]
Healthcare Trends on the Rise: Video Remote Interpreting (VRI)
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Cost Savings, Interpretation, Language Service Provider (LSP), Language Technology, Medical Translations | No Comments April 26th, 2017
Certified Medical Interpreters for Life-Saving Communication Imagine what it would be like to be in need of healthcare, but unable to effectively communicate with your physician. Realize not only the stress that would come with receiving life-saving medical care, but also the added frustration of knowing that you couldn’t understand the important information that was being […]
Games Localization: 3 Hot Topics At This Year’s GDC
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Management Systems, Foreign Language Voice Recording Services, Fun, Games Localization, Global Branding, Language Localization, Localization, Multilingual Audio and Video, Multimedia Localization, Recording Services, Transcreation, Translation, World's Writing Systems | No Comments March 30th, 2017
Know what’s even more exciting than playing a video game? Localizing it! Hi, my name is Yanan Cheng, and I am a Chinese project manager at MediaLocate. I love to play and localize video games and last month I had a chance to attend the 2017 Games Developer Conference (GDC 2017) in San Francisco. […]
The First Customer Report Cards Are In!
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Cost Savings, education, Global Marketing Strategy, Language Service Provider (LSP), Localization, Localization Provider, News, Testimonials, Translation | No Comments March 16th, 2017
Client satisfaction surveys… and the verdict is? Once a quarter we survey around 30 of our top customers. They are mostly comprised of large enterprise accounts, strategic partnerships and unique localization programs. This helps us take the pulse of our key growth customers: their needs, their satisfaction, and their pain points. While we service and […]
How Do You Tune A Fish?
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, education, Fun, Global Branding, Global Marketing Strategy, Language Localization, Language Service Provider (LSP), Local Markets, Localization Provider, Transcreation, Translation, web translation, World's Writing Systems | No Comments January 18th, 2017
How Do You Tune A Fish? – Localizing for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Translating for informal science centers, be it texts for exhibits or video scripts for visitor tours, poses a special challenge. Not only must the message be localized to a specific geographic region, but it must also be targeted to a very diverse […]
What are Prominent Women in Localization Planning for in 2017?
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, education, Fun, Global Marketing Strategy, Language Localization, Language Service Provider (LSP), Medialocate Events, News | No Comments January 10th, 2017
What are Prominent Women in Localization Planning for in 2017? Come and join us at the year’s first “Women in Localization Meet-Up” at Sony PlayStation in San Mateo this Thursday. Hear from and interact with a panel of localization professionals from Sony PlayStation, Survey Monkey, Juniper Networks, Alpha US, and MediaLocate. Leona Zacek, Vendor Manager, MediaLocate When: […]
3 Localization Trends to Watch for in 2017
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, Cost Savings, Global Marketing Strategy, Globalization, KantanMT, Language Localization, Language Service Provider (LSP), Language Technology, Localization, Localization Provider, machine translation, Multilingual Audio and Video, Multimedia Localization, Transcreation, Translation, web translation, website localization | No Comments December 3rd, 2016
Localization Trends for 2017 and Beyond: Neural Machine Translation Machine Translation (MT) technology has taken another leap forward. This time, it’s a big leap forward. Instead of relying on the phrase-based statistical approach, neural MT simulates the interconnected network of the brain to generate translations. Several companies have unveiled neural MT technology, including Google, Microsoft, […]
BACK TRANSLATION CAN TIE YOU IN KNOTS
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Content Strategy, Cost Savings, Global Branding, Global Marketing Strategy, Language Localization, Legal, Localization, Medical Translations, Translation, website localization | No Comments November 23rd, 2016
BACK TRANSLATION CAN TIE YOU IN KNOTS Your new localization provider has just delivered the translation you requested. It’s been through a standard translation, editing and proofing (TEP) process involving multiple linguists, but you’re uneasy. Your product is about to ship or your ad is going nationwide, and you want to check the translation one […]
Cultural Validation Checklist for Images
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog | No Comments August 5th, 2016
How well does your branding travel? Cultural Validation. Images are online casino in canada Images areleading language services provider (LSP), we see our share of websites, products, and documents ready to go global. While most of the time it’s clear that the branding will work worldwide, sometimes a “ready-to-go” project comes to us and we […]
MediaLocate Achieves Brand-New ISO 17100 Certification
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Language Service Provider (LSP), News | No Comments July 19th, 2016
ISO 17100:2015 – A New Translation Services Standard is Here! Always a front runner when it comes to the highest level of professional translation certifications, today MediaLocate passed the ISO 17100:2015 audit and is being recommended for certification by LICS® (Language Industry Certification Systems®), a global accreditation body in Austria. ISO 17100:2015 is a brand-new […]
No Room for Mistakes in Legal & Medical Interpreting
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Interpretation, Legal, Medical Translations, Translation | No Comments May 10th, 2016
MISTAKES IN LEGAL & MEDICAL INTERPRETING An Interpretation Challenge: A legal deposition is an incredibly important piece of evidence that serves as testimony by an expert, eyewitness, or other individual with knowledge relevant to your case. As the world becomes smaller and the global economy continues growing, more and more depositions are being done of […]
ITAR – Translation in the Defense Sector
Posted by MediaLocate | Blog, Certifications, Content Strategy, Foreign Language Voice Recording Services, Globalization, language localizaiton, Language Service Provider (LSP), Legal, Localization, Localization Provider, World's Writing Systems | No Comments April 26th, 2016
ITAR – PUTTING SAFETY AND SECURITY FIRST You can never be too safe in this technologically advanced age. Therefore, making sure your language provider is in compliance with federal defense regulations is very important to your company. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) are designed to control and limit access to specific kinds of […]
MediaLocate Celebrates Its 24th Year at the 2019 TILM Career Fair
February 21, 2019
MediaLocate Vendor Manager Leona Zacek (left) and Senior Account Manager Mimi Moore (right) met with TILM students seeking internships and full-time positions. The Language Industry’s Premier Job Recruiting Fair On Friday, February 15, 2019 MediaLocate participated in the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Annual Translation, Interpretation and Localization Management (TILM) Career Fair in Monterey, […]
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