ENLASO

Location: Language Technology Center: Webinars about translation, localization and other language services

ENLASO's Language Technology Center produces and hosts on a regular basis live educational Webinars on a wide variety of localization and translation related topics. If you have missed one of our live Webinars or would like to view it again – simply request the Webinar recording from our archive.

Documentation Localization

Successful Documentation Localization
Presenter(s):	Maxwell Hoffmann
Description:	The intensive one-hour Webinar explores fundamental documentation localization management concepts that improve processes, costs, and performance associated with multilingual global projects. Using dynamic examples and demonstrations, Hoffmann will provide fresh insights and solutions for successful documentation internationalization, localization, and translation-highlighting single-source strategies.
Date:	8/19/04
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Advantages of Structured FrameMaker in Localization, Multilingual Publishing, and XML
Presenter(s):	Doug Pearson
Description:	This Webinar features expert localization engineer Doug Pearson in an intensive one-hour webinar that explores how structured FrameMaker7 files streamline multilingual publishing and product localization processes — improving overall project quality, cost, and turnaround.
Date:	11/9/04
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Successful Documentation Localization Management - Part II
Presenter(s):	Maxwell Hoffmann
Description:	Successful Documentation Localization Management - Part II features again documentation expert Max Hoffmann. This intensive one-hour Webinar covers critical concepts essential to successful localization of documentation. Hoffman will also talk about checklists and recommendations that lead to improved processes, reduced costs, and successful delivery of multilingual global projects. Using dynamic examples and demonstrations, Hoffmann will provide further insights and solutions for successful documentation internationalization, localization, and translation. The Webinar will also cover single-source publishing solutions.
Date:	9/1/05
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Games Localization

Fundamentals of Multilingual Games Localization
Presenter(s):	Liesl Leary
Description:	This Webinar is designed for developers, project managers, and key localization players operating in an increasingly internationally oriented games/online entertainment space. We will present guidelines of best practices to consider during the development phase to lower future localization costs and increase the likelihood that the game will be appropriate for a global customer base. In addition, we will walk through a typical localization cycle for a new release to provide attendees with an idea of what a localization vendor will need to reproduce a positive player experience in another language.
Date:	4/27/06
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Internationalization and Localization

How Internationalization Complements Software Localization for Better Global Results
Presenter(s):	Adam Asnes
Description:	"How Internationalization Complements Software Localization for Better Global Results" is presented by Lingoport President and CEO, Adam Asnes, and ENLASO President, John Watkins. Targeting product managers, localization project managers, and marketing professionals in the technology arena, you will gain a clear understanding of how your firm will benefit from adding internationalization to your software localization plans - and how to get it done with minimum impact on your staff.
Date:	9/27/07
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Managing Internationalization and Localization
Presenter(s):	Adam Asnes, Erik Hansen
Description:	Software Globalization has a way of changing the management thinking and practices throughout an organization. Planning, budgeting, resourcing, risk management and everyday development practices all broaden in pursuit of global revenues and expansion. This free Webinar will step you through managing software globalization, with special emphasis on internationalization, while optimizing localization.
Date:	10/30/08
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Lifesciences and Medical Localization

Taking Life Science Products to the International Market
Presenter(s):	John Watkins
Description:	Is your company producing medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or consumer medical information? If you are, then somebody in your company is likely to be thinking about how to increase market share of your products in the global market. Manufacturers of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology products, and consumer healthcare products have a competitive advantage in the global marketplace when their products are successfully localized for each market.
Date:	5/31/07
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Localization Tools and Technology

Exploring ENLASO's Localization Tools
Presenter(s):	Yves Savourel
Description:	In this one-hour Webinar, Yves Savourel explores the capabilities of ENLASO's localization tools. The session includes a look at the advantages provided by a modular architecture as well as a set of concrete demonstrations that illustrate how tools such as Rainbow and Horizon can be integrated into the localization process. The porting of the tools to the open source Okapi Framework is also discussed.
Date:	11/10/05
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Customizing Structured FrameMaker for Localization
Presenter(s):	Maxwell Hoffmann
Description:	This is the first Webinar as part of ENLASO's newly created Consulting & Training Solutions Division. “Customizing Structured FrameMaker for Localization” features Maxwell Hoffmann, Manager of Consulting and Training Solutions at ENLASO, and presents an excellent opportunity for attendees to learn about the localization process and the strengths of FrameMaker in the publishing phase of localization. Hoffmann will provide general tips for template management and will be demonstrating some project-specific FrameMaker plug-ins that ENLASO has developed.
Date:	11/16/06
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Managing Localization

Managing Localization Projects
Presenter(s):	John Watkins
Description:	While translation plays an important role in preparing products for the global marketplace, the actual process of localization is much broader in scope. Long-term success is granted to organizations that understand where localization processes reside within the development lifecycle. Localization projects require the coordination of myriad combinations of professionals and technologies around the globe while facing complex linguistic, cultural, content, and technical challenges.
Date:	9/30/04
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Effective Localization Project Handoff Management
Presenter(s):	Yusuke Kirimoto
Description:	In Olympic relay racing, the difference between first and second place in the sprint relays is usually measured in tenths or hundredths of a second. Therefore, precise execution of the "handoff" is paramount to success. Project handoffs in localization carry the same consequences as global companies sprint to maintain global market leadership. Localization projects require the coordination of myriad combinations of professionals and technologies facing complex linguistic, cultural, content, and technical challenges.
Date:	2/3/05
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Localization 101 - Where Do You Start And How Do You Go About It?
Presenter(s):	Yves Lang
Description:	Localization 101, is designed for "newer" professionals who are responsible for the planning and execution of multilingual product development. The intensive one-hour Webinar presentation will explore fundamental localization management concepts that improve enterprise processes, costs, and performance.
Date:	2/23/06
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Overview of the Localization Process, Technical Writing and Translation
Presenter(s):	Doug Pearson
Description:	Doug Pearson, an ENLASO Localization Engineer, will deliver a one-hour presentation that includes an overview of the localization process from the perspective of technical writers who initially author documents for localization and translation. A primary focus of this presentation will be to guide technical writers to understand the tasks of the other people who work on the localization process (project managers, engineers, linguists, etc.) in order to make their own work more effective, thus saving both time and money in the localization and translation process.
Date:	7/31/08
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How to Write for Translation: The 1% Solution
Presenter(s):	John Smart
Description:	According to Oxford University, the English language in 2007 has 900,000 words and growing daily. This growth poses a problem in translation. The solution is Controlled English. This complimentary Webinar is of particular interest to technical writers, translation and localization managers, customer service managers, project managers, globalization teams and global marketing professionals.
Date:	1/31/08
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Marketing Localization

A growing market: Non-English speakers in the US
Presenter(s):	John Watkins
Description:	Should you be reaching out to an untapped market in the US? Over 47 million people in the US speak a language other than English at home. Of these people, the US census estimates that over 25 million speak English less than "very well." These numbers are too large to ignore: increasingly, health care organizations, company human resource managers, and savvy companies wishing to tap into the spending power of this market translate their message for those in the US who speak languages other than English.
Date:	6/29/06
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Localization and Translation Best Practices: Successfully Marketing Your Brand to a Global Audience
Presenter(s):	Chris Raulf, Maxwell Hoffmann
Description:	With the right marketing tools and tactics, every company, no matter how small or large, can make its products and services available to millions and millions of potential consumers worldwide. Even if you are not yet ready to sell overseas, the information you take away from this Webinar will help you better understand the tremendous opportunities that present themselves in marketing to the rapidly-growing Hispanic and Asian markets in the U.S.
Date:	11/29/07
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Social Networking and Online Dating Localization

Social Networking Localization
Presenter(s):	Liesl Leary
Description:	With the proliferation of social networking sites recently, it seems that meeting people is as simple as a mouse-click. In fact, according to Hitwise, in September 2006, 1 in every 20 Web site visits were to social networking sites. However, localizing the sites that enable global end-users with similar interests but different cultures, languages, and input method editors to find each other, is irrefutably more complex.
Date:	1/25/07
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Go Global and Localize the Online Dating Experience
Presenter(s):	Yves Lang
Description:	Want to increase market share, international presence, and revenue, and do it the right way? Go global and localize the online dating experience. Companies like Match.com and Meetic have found the solution and ENLASO has helped them. Learn how you too can make international dating a reality by going global, increasing your market share, and by the same token your worldwide recognition and revenue.
Date:	3/1/07
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Terminology / Glossary / Style Guide / Translation Memory

Incorporating Multilingual Glossaries into Localization Systems
Presenter(s):	Liesl Leary
Description:	Glossaries insure the health of your localization investment and prevent some nasty disorders from ever occurring, however many companies fail to understand the importance of a glossary to a localization project. Faced with the indecipherable complexity of a project's pricing matrix, the additional costs associated with creating a glossary may appear extraneous. But this misunderstood procedure is the cornerstone to achieving high-quality translations, lower long term costs, and faster time-to-market, while developing subsidiary buy-in, and in some cases, effective vendor management.
Date:	3/10/05
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Translation Memory 101
Presenter(s):	Yusuke Kirimoto
Description:	The effective use of Translation Memory (TM) technology supports faster time-to-market, reduces costs, and dramatically improves the overall quality of the translations.
Date:	9/25/08
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Web site Localization

Web site Localization 101
Presenter(s):	Judith Soloduk
Description:	This powerful one-hour presentation teaches you how localization of your Web site and Web-based application makes it possible for you to reach non-English speaking markets.
Date:	5/12/07
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XML and Localization

XML and Localization
Presenter(s):	Yves Savourel
Description:	In an intensive one-hour Webinar using dynamic examples and demonstrations, Yves Savourel explores the benefits and advantages of XML in localization, even when the localizable data is not in an XML format. The session also explores the translation of XML documents and how to overcome some of the challenges XML-enabled tools still offer.
Date:	7/8/04
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Miscellaneous

Measuring Customer Satisfaction Globally
Presenter(s):	Liesl Leary, Brooke Watts
Description:	If there was one thing you could do in your business to predict customer behavior and forecast revenue would you do it? Of course you would. Customer satisfaction, when measured objectively and accurately, is the best leading indicator of a customer's loyalty and continued or new purchase. Customer satisfaction is not only a measure of how your product or services perform but also a measurement of how that performance stacks up against the customer requirements and expectations. In today's global economy localization and translation become necessary to gain an understanding of that customer perception which should drive your business decisions.
Date:	8/31/06
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Cross-Cultural Training and Localization - Strategies for Communicating Successfully Across a Global Business Environment
Presenter(s):	Cyrus Carter
Description:	Effectively localizing the communication channels to your global audience is an essential and accepted business practice. Often overlooked however are the linguistic and cultural tools needed to communicate within your organization and cope with changes at every level. Managing the expectations and cultural challenges faced by your expatriate team along with adapting your unique corporate style to new environments may be the keys to successful expansion abroad.
Date:	4/8/08
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