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The workshop was a huge success.

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Content Strategy in a Day with Rahel Bailie

Date: Washington, D.C. | August 11, 2011 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Real-Time Translation Can Be Useful, But How Accurate Is It?

In today’s information age, companies have a competitive need to communicate with their global customers in their own language. With the social media advancements, the urge to communicate in real time has become an ever-pressing expectation. Machine Translation has often been the center of controversy because we know it is useful, but how reliable is it?

Please join us for a complimentary seminar and luncheon on August 11th that will focus on how to incorporate localization best practices into your corporation’s Global Information Management (GIM) strategy. This seminar will provide best practice advice around global content and give you insights in:

• Analyzing suitable content for Machine Translation
• Intelligent Machine Translation
• Assessing the solutions that best fit your organization’s goals

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to network and exchange localization knowledge with other industry leaders at a luncheon that takes place during the seminar. Space is limited so please register today.

Deadline for registration is August 8, 2011.
Register at
http://www.sdl.com/en/language-services/events/2011-08-11-SDL-Seminar-Real-Time-Translation.asp

Please contact us at moc.ldsnull@secivreSegaugnaL with any questions.

• How the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses social media to improve communication and debunk myths
• How social media can support your organization’s mission and assist in decision-making
• Best practices for implementation of a social media strategy

Registration ends March 10. Sign up now!

Details/Registration:
http://stcwdcseminarandcelebration.eventbrite.com/

Information About the Awards Celebration

Fees

STC members – $45.00*
Non-members – $65.00
Competition judges, entrants, volunteers, or full-time students – $30.00

*If you are a new STC member, please e-mail moc.oohaynull@reganamstneve_cdwcts for a one-time $5 discount code.

Registration: http://stcwdcseminarandcelebration.eventbrite.com

Early Registration Bonus!

Register by February 15 to be automatically entered in a drawing for a free registration to the WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance on March 21-24. That’s a $995 value!

Lunch

Included in your registration is a plated lunch with salad, entree, and dessert. We will be serving:

Salad

Executive Field Greens with mushrooms, roma tomatoes, asparagus, and balsamic vinaigrette

Choice of Entree

Grilled Chicken Breast served with caramelized chardonnay sauce, jasmine rice pilaf, baby carrots, and asparagus
or

Ziti served with white sweet potato puree and chanterelle mushrooms, marjoram, crisp micro sage on sweet corn saffron sauce

Dessert

Double Chocolate Fudge Cake with raspberry sauce

Bread and Beverages

Assorted breads, butter, margarine, iced tea, assorted soft drinks, sparkling mineral water, Starbucks coffee, decaffeinated coffee, and selection of Tazo teas

If you have specific requests, please e-mail gro.cdwctsnull@snoititepmoc by March 9.

Agenda

11:30 a.m. – Check-in and competition entry display
12:00-12:45 p.m. – Plated lunch
12:45-1:00 p.m. – Introduction and welcome
1:00-1:45 p.m. – Seminar: "Engaging Your Target Audience Using Social Media"
Seminar Leader: Curtis "Blogger Bob" Burns, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Strategic Communications & Public Affairs
1:50-2:05 p.m. – Best of Show and Best Student Entry presentations
2:10-2:30 p.m. – Competition awards celebration

Download the flyer.

Information About the Seminar

What You Will Learn

• How the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses social media to improve communication and debunk myths
• Best practices for implementation of a social media strategy
• How social media can support an organization’s mission and assist in decision-making

The TSA blog at www.tsa.gov/blog was launched in 2008 with the intent of demystifying airport security processes and debunking myths by providing simple, non-bureaucratic explanations of why TSA does what it does to keep the traveling public safe. Curtis "Bob" Burns, best known as "Blogger Bob," is the manager and the primary voice of the blog, and he is supported by other TSA employees who also contribute with posts and responses to comments. Since its inception, the blog has provided a forum for open and transparent discussion between TSA and the public on a wide range of topics including the "why" behind security procedures, information on new policies, and myth busting of media and blog stories. Since its launch, the blog has received over 1 million hits.

Curtis "Blogger Blob" Burns started with the TSA in September 2002. He worked at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) for 5 years and is currently located at TSA headquarters in Washington, DC. Bob started as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) and has since been promoted to a Management Analyst with the Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs.

During his 6 years with TSA, he’s worked as an Operations Watch Officer, Instructor, Training Coordinator, Behavior Detection Officer, and served as the Vice Chairman on TSA’s first National Advisory Council – a group representing TSA’s frontline workforce in discussions with TSA leadership on security and workplace issues. Bob lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, two daughters, and a 100-pound German shepherd named Clarence.

Before joining the TSA, Bob was a singer / songwriter and traveled around the world with his band. Songwriting is now one of his hobbies along with record collecting, ugly ties, and photography. His favorite type of music is psychedelic garage rock music from the 1960s.

• 508 Compliance
• Practical Ways to Make Your Website Accessible
• Accessible PDFs
• Making Flash Accessible
• what is WAI-ARIA – (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
• Accessible Video and Transcription
• Panel Discussion on “Issues Effecting Individuals with Disabilities on the Web”
• Captioning

Registration for Accessibility Camp DC is still open, though only a few spots are available. Go to http://accessibilitycampdc.eventbrite.com/ to register.

Accessibility Camp DC is a free event held at the Martin Luther King Library in Washington, DC from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Check-in will begin at 9:30 AM once library opens.

The Martin Luther King (MLK) Library is located at:

901 G St NW, Room 215
Washington, DC 20001-4531