Fórum | Téma | Název | Text | Autor | Čas |
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ProZ.com Translation Contests | Plan to close out as many pairs from the last contest as possible, pave the way for new contests | Thanks Samuel | Hi Samuel,
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote: [quote]Jared Tabor wrote: One thing to keep in mind moving forward, with this and with future contests: ProZ.com contests are peer-based. | Jared Tabor | Sep 25, 2017 |
ProZ.com Translation Contests | Plan to close out as many pairs from the last contest as possible, pave the way for new contests | I understand the hesitation of some participants to also rate and vote, but | Hi Gerard,
[quote]Gerard de Noord wrote: Hello Jared, Moving forward, please bear in mind that competitors often don't want to judge other entries to keep the competition fair. | Jared Tabor | Sep 25, 2017 |
ProZ.com Translation Contests | Plan to close out as many pairs from the last contest as possible, pave the way for new contests | Hello all,
First of all, another and much-belated apology on my part for the failure to adequately close out the last translation contest in a reasonable amount of time. I know a lot of | Jared Tabor | Sep 22, 2017 | |
ProZ.com membership | I would like to know | Cases of abuse should be reported with details so that they can be investigated | Hi Maija,
[quote]Maija Cirule wrote:
After some ridiculous recent experience with an overbossy ProZ representative, I decided to investigate the causes of such a never-seen -befo | Jared Tabor | Sep 20, 2017 |
Site forums | What happened to the navigation menu? (Staff: responsive menu for different resolutions/screens) | This may have been the new responsive design in the menu | Hi Susan,
This could have just been the new responsive design. If you are viewing the site from a smaller browser window, or on a mobile device/tablet, the menu may appear under the thr | Jared Tabor | Sep 18, 2017 |
ProZ.com membership | I would like to know | The offices help serve ProZ.com members in different time zones and languages | Hello Maija,
Are you referring to the different ProZ.com offices? Aside from Syracuse, there is the La Plata office (since 2005 or 2006), and the Kharkiv office (since 2008). The differ | Jared Tabor | Sep 16, 2017 |
Business issues | how can I apply for the translation companies from the blueboard? | Use the site and your membership to ensure that potential clients come to you | Hello YoungEun,
As Mirko says, you should make sure an outsourcer has requested that sort of contact before applying to work with them. And as Ann says, many companies will not apprecia | Jared Tabor | Sep 14, 2017 |
In memoriam | Andrew Bell | I've just heard that long-time member Andrew Bell has passed away. Many of you may know him from his years on ProZ.com and from the Watercooler network for translators and interpreters. He | Jared Tabor | Sep 5, 2017 | |
ProZ.com directory | Search by 'Last posted "What I'm working on now'? | Indicators, not replacements for the screening process | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
The catch here is that a dishonest translator can make up interesting-looking jobs and post them on a regular basis. In fact I might do it myself. Why no | Jared Tabor | Aug 30, 2017 |
ProZ.com directory | Search by 'Last posted "What I'm working on now'? | Another means of detecting/evaluating active specialists | The "What I am working on now" feature is one way to share the kinds of projects one works on, tools used, etc. Entries are also searchable by language pair and keywords at https://www.pro | Jared Tabor | Aug 30, 2017 |
ProZ.com bugs | Trouble opening the menu when you hover cursor over your name and icon in the top-right corner | Thanks for reporting | Hi BNN Medical Tr.,
Thanks for reporting this, I'll make sure it gets looked at. Jared | Jared Tabor | Aug 25, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Can I be a Certified PRO without having completed any jobs within ProZ.com? | Yes | Hi BNN Medical Tr.,
Yes, you can apply to the CPN and enter the network without having completed work received via the site (in fact, that sort of specific information is not even check | Jared Tabor | Aug 24, 2017 |
ProZ.com directory | Do we want prospective customers to love us? | Staff introduce and adjust features based on feedback, and also on usage | Hi all,
Thanks for the feedback on this. The star icon has already been in use for years for feedback (WWA), so there would be a greater potential for confusion in adding a second star | Jared Tabor | Jul 20, 2017 |
ProZ.com: Translator Coop | The new ProZ menu | Thanks for the feedback. This is part of ongoing efforts to update/modernize the site | Hi all,
Thanks for the feedback so far. Nate announced this and it is being discussed over in http://www.proz.com/topic/316760 , and adjustments are being made based on feedback. I'll m | Jared Tabor | Jul 20, 2017 |
KudoZ | No longer receiving any KudoZ email notifications | Support center link (under the question mark icon in the new navigation menu) | Hi Mojo,
The support center is here: http://www.proz.com/support (under the question mark icon in the new navigation menu). Just click on the "Submit a support request" link there. | Jared Tabor | Jul 19, 2017 |
KudoZ | No longer receiving any KudoZ email notifications | The notifications are being sent-- are they possibly being filtered by your email account? | Hello Mojo,
You have been sent two KudoZ notifications so far today (the 19th), for http://www.proz.com/kudoz/6363569 and http://www.proz.com/kudoz/6363710 (if you look at the botto | Jared Tabor | Jul 19, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Multiple visits of my profile from the same place/address | These are usually just search engine crawlers | Hello Slobodan,
These entries are most likely search engine crawlers and nothing to worry about. A couple of previous threads on this include: http://www.proz.com/topic/58344 htt< | Jared Tabor | Jul 14, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Free web email offered by Everyone.net through ProZ.com was discontinued | Apparently announced in January of this year, went into effect in March | Just an update. Looking around, it appears that Everyone.net announced this change in January of this year via email to account holders. This was the announcement I found: [quote] EVER | Jared Tabor | Jul 13, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Free web email offered by Everyone.net through ProZ.com was discontinued | Not sure when that went into effect, but it looks like it should be removed from the dropdown | Hello Lincoln,
I'm not sure when Everyone.net (the third party provider of the free web mail) did that. If they are no longer offering free web mail then yes, it would make sense to rem | Jared Tabor | Jul 12, 2017 |
In memoriam | Links to other threads that fit in this forum | Thanks Christine | It looks like some of those threads pre-date the In memoriam forum. I can move them over here so they are all in one place. Thanks! Jared | Jared Tabor | Jun 30, 2017 |
In memoriam | Siegfried Armbruster | Hello all,
I have learned this morning that Siegfried Armbruster has passed away. Siegfried was a long-time member and wherever you looked, he was contributing: in term help, in the for | Jared Tabor | Jun 28, 2017 | |
CAT Tools Technical Help | Forum created for Memsource help | Hi all,
There was a recent thread on Memsource I came across today, and I noticed there was no designated forum for it. I've created a Memsource support forum at http://www.proz.com/for | Jared Tabor | Jun 23, 2017 | |
French | Trying to see if French translation was made by a person vs. machine translation | Is there a better place for a non-French speaker to ask French speakers for help? | Hi all,
I may have inadvertently started it all, since I approved the initial post in this thread (sorry about that). The problem was just that: a question posed to French speakers, by< | Jared Tabor | Jun 21, 2017 |
ProZ.com bugs | Videos in the Library not loading | Good to hear | [quote]shmc wrote:
Hey Jared,
Strangely, everything seems to be in working order, both on my phone and on my laptop. I had checked before posting here and Flash was enabled and upda | Jared Tabor | Jun 19, 2017 |
ProZ.com bugs | Videos in the Library not loading | Can you put in a support request with the details? | Hi shmc,
I don't see any problems over in the video library at the moment-- I did have to make sure Flash was enabled in my browser to view the videos, though. Could you put in a suppor | Jared Tabor | Jun 19, 2017 |
Business issues | Blue Board - What do EQOTP letters mean on ratings? | More info on the new ratings | Hi all,
Thanks Aleksandra!
For those interested, you can see more on the new Blue Board category ratings, which were released last December, here in the announcement thread: http | Jared Tabor | Jun 16, 2017 |
Business issues | Blue Board vs. Glassdoor - Translators Beware | How cases of disputed entries are handled | Hello Med_Trans,
First, I'm sorry to hear you are having this kind of trouble with a client. With regards to the Blue Board, as with other areas of the site, there are rules which | Jared Tabor | Jun 15, 2017 |
KudoZ | Partial receipt of KudoZ questions | The support team can help troubleshoot notifications for specific questions | Hi Mo,
[quote]Mojo 59 wrote:
Thanks Mirko and Jared - preferences now saved. However, I forgot to tell you guys that sometimes I don't even receive some questions of my language | Jared Tabor | Jun 6, 2017 |
KudoZ | Partial receipt of KudoZ questions | Notifications for that pair have not been activated | [quote]Mirko Mainardi wrote:
Check your settings here: http://www.proz.com/dashboard/kudoz/ [/quote] Thanks Mirko! Mo, for Arabic to English, your notifications are turned | Jared Tabor | Jun 5, 2017 |
ProZ.com: Translator Coop | New Plus package benefit: Free download of Henk Sanderson's IATE terminology packages | "What I am working on" is a feature all ProZ.com members already have access to | Hi Vanda and Maija,
I may be misunderstanding the issue here, but the "What I am working on" feature is already available to all ProZ.com members. The permissions you are granting are t | Jared Tabor | Jun 2, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Anyone had/have problems with getting logged out automatically from proz (without you logging out)? | The support team can probably troubleshoot that with more information | Hi Katalin,
This may be something with your browser, or not, it is difficult to say without further details. Can I ask you to submit a support request over at http://www.proz.com/suppor | Jared Tabor | May 31, 2017 |
Translation news | Translation News roundup for March | Re: Languages for news items | [quote]Murad AWAD wrote:
Dear Jared,
Regarding to the language used at the news section, is English a must or other languages are accepted. i.e. can I use a news written in Turksih/ | Jared Tabor | Mar 31, 2017 |
Translation news | Translation News roundup for March | Thanks for the feedback | Thanks everyone for the feedback on this! [quote]Murad AWAD wrote: Excellent effort Jared, many thanks. I hope to read news from Turkish and Arabic translation world! [/quote] This | Jared Tabor | Mar 30, 2017 |
Translation news | Translation News roundup for March | Thanks | Great, thank you for the feedback, Susan and Siegfried! | Jared Tabor | Mar 28, 2017 |
Translation news | Jhumpa Lahiri talks about her translation of Domenico Starnone's "Ties" | On teaching herself Italian and more on the Starnone translation | I was not familiar with her or with Starnone, but found the story interesting. I came across an article where Lahiri writes about teaching herself Italian from the New Yorker in 2015, and | Jared Tabor | Mar 14, 2017 |
ProZ.com membership | A question about Certified Pro status (the "red star") | The criteria in the screening process are based on the EN 15038 | Hi Tom,
The criteria in the screening process for the Certified PRO Network are based on the EN 15038. See http://www.proz.com/pro-tag/info/about/freelancers I am not aware | Jared Tabor | Mar 10, 2017 |
ProZ.com technical support | Tkt support | Thanks Helena | Hello Helena,
Response time can vary, depending on the time of day, how many support requests are coming in, the nature of the issue, etc. At the moment, about half of support issues ar | Jared Tabor | Mar 7, 2017 |
Machine Translation (MT) | Google gave their MT a "brain": Google Neural Machine Translation | Three part podcast by Globally Speaking on NMT | This may also be of interest, if you have not heard it yet: http://www.proz.com/translation-news/?p=133769 | Jared Tabor | Mar 6, 2017 |
ProZ.com directory | Message sent to translator who does not translate this combination | Notifying the searcher they have previous candidates in their list is a good idea | [quote]Katalin Horváth McClure wrote:
I am wondering however, if it would it be possible to display a red warning pop-up when someone starts a search and their list is NOT empty? Tell | Jared Tabor | Feb 25, 2017 |
ProZ.com membership | Membership expired... renewal is in... 9 months | Yes, those notifications need to be improved | Hi Samuel,
It looks like this was where some Standard membership which had been added to your account in relation to localization activities in November 2016 ran out, but as you already | Jared Tabor | Feb 24, 2017 |
ProZ.com directory | Message sent to translator who does not translate this combination | Thanks. Looks like a previous candidate you had added to your batch email list | Thanks Heinrich. I don't see that person in the directory under the search you did, and it looks like at some point you may have added to your list of candidates in another search, so that | Jared Tabor | Feb 23, 2017 |
ProZ.com directory | Message sent to translator who does not translate this combination | Would need more information to investigate | Hi Heinrich,
I would need more info to look into this. Can you send me the link to the directory search you performed that gave you that result, and indicate the profile you found that< | Jared Tabor | Feb 23, 2017 |
ProZ.com membership | Proz Membership: standard vs plus package | TM-Town membership is included in the Plus package | [quote]CafeTran Training wrote:
Excuse me if this has already been asked, but is any of the TM-Town plans (https://www.tm-town.com/membership-pricing ) included in a Proz Plus membe | Jared Tabor | Feb 15, 2017 |
ProZ.com bugs | Order of front page items | I can't reproduce this, created support request to troubleshoot | Hi Lianne,
I'm not seeing any problems with this. It sounds like it may be an issue with your browser(s). I've created a support request for you on the matter, and if you can add any in | Jared Tabor | Feb 3, 2017 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How optimistic are you about your translation business in 2017? (please share!) | Presenting yourself to potential clients with the content in your profile/website/whathaveyou | Hi aaafateh,
[quote]aaafateh wrote:
started promoting myself online only since November 2016 but till now not received a single job - but still optimistic to improve my business thro | Jared Tabor | Feb 3, 2017 |
In memoriam | Helena Diaz del Real | I met her in person in Porto | I wasn't at Prague, Mike, but at Porto in 2013 (http://www.proz.com/pages/Porto-conference-2013?p age=live_coverage ) I clearly remember a long, trailing group of translators leaving the | Jared Tabor | Jan 27, 2017 |
In memoriam | Helena Diaz del Real | Hello all,
I have just learned that long-time member Helena Diaz del Real has passed away. Helena joined ProZ.com in 2005 and was an active contributor in term help and the forums. Many | Jared Tabor | Jan 27, 2017 | |
ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Announcement of winners in the 2016 ProZ.com membership campaign, The Open Road | Grand prize winner of the Nissan Juke: Eszter Lelik | Eszter Lelik, an English to Hungarian translator from Hungary, is the grand prize winner of the Nissan Juke. Congratulations, Eszter! Eszter's interview will be available soon on the Tr | Jared Tabor | Jan 10, 2017 |
ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Announcement of winners in the 2016 ProZ.com membership campaign, The Open Road | Additional prizes awarded prior to the car giveaway | Thanks to everyone who stopped in to see the grand prize giveaway live today. Some additional prizes were given away before the car drawing itself, generously provided by the following Pro | Jared Tabor | Jan 10, 2017 |
ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Announcement of winners in the 2016 ProZ.com membership campaign, The Open Road | Winner for December 30th: Carl Brunet | The final Apple Watch winner was Carl Brunet! Carl is a French - English translator and interpreter from Canada. You will be able to read his interview on the T.O. blog soon. Con | Jared Tabor | Jan 10, 2017 |
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