Hi everyone, I joined Web-Translations as an eMarketing project manager in November 2013. I had previously been working in International eCommerce where I managed the online B2C business, specialising in the French market. This was a very broad role ranging from product selection and content management right through to marketing and customer services. This role developed my interest for eMarketing and gives me the benefit of being able to view a project from the clients’ perspective. I graduated in 2010 with triple honours in Business, French and Spanish and during my four year course I spent some invaluable time living and working abroad. I worked for The AA in Lyon, France offering tri-lingual customer service and support. I then moved to Badajoz, Spain where I worked as a British Council English Language Assistant teaching English in two secondary schools. These experiences were fantastic for my languages skills, notably in Spain as the city I lived in has not yet been […]
6 December 2013 09:40
Web-Translations has just celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and marked the occasion in style with a party at the Crowd of Favours, the newest addition to the Leeds Brewery empire. Guests included staff members both old and new, clients, and translators, with some dedicated party-goers travelling from Germany and Spain to join the celebrations! Everyone enjoyed the impressive buffet, and while the bubbly flowed, Daniel gave a speech thanking all those who have helped the business reach this impressive milestone, to loud cheers from the crowd. We look forward to reaching 20 years in business and beyond!
8 November 2013 17:36
Web-Translations offers an email relay translation service, but perhaps what we need is a tweet relay translation service… It seems that nowadays the fastest way to get a reply to a query or complaint is to tweet a company instead of emailing them! We have just arranged our 10-year anniversary festivities for next month, and instead of emailing venues for information, we tweeted them! And yes, we did get quick replies. It seems that we are not unique in using Twitter to contact businesses. The BBC’s “The One Show” set up an experiment to test whether people got a faster reply to a complaint via Twitter than via email, and the results were very clear that Twitter is the way to get a quick reply. Social media forces companies to reply quickly, as otherwise they may be perceived as uncommunicative and uncaring.
20 September 2013 15:26
Hi all, I recently joined the Web-Translations team as a Project Coordinator, after studying a Masters in Translation Studies at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, I graduated with a First in Hispanic Studies (also at the University of Sheffield), where I studied both Portuguese and Spanish. During my MA, I was instructed in the use of CAT tools and studied a module on Localisation. This piqued my interest in the field and led to my subsequent focus on the translation of Social Media and Crowdsourced Translation for my dissertation. Being from the ‘Steel City’ of Sheffield, outside work I like to make the most of all that Yorkshire has to offer, particularly at the local theatres and music venues. In 2012, I was lucky enough to play a part in Olympics volunteering, working alongside Sheffield City Council to support a group of Brazilian Judo and Boxing athletes training in the city during the Games. This was a truly […]
6 September 2013 14:08
There has always been a friendly business rivalry between Leeds and Sheffield, understandable when you consider that the two cities are only 40 miles apart, and happen to be the 3rd and 5th largest cities in the UK (I’ll let you fight it out among yourselves which one is which!). It’s common practice for businesses anywhere to look close to home when seeking a partner to deliver a project that may be outside their own remit, or involve a highly specialised area, such as translation. Leeds-based Web-Translations was therefore delighted to be approached by Sheffield company SwitchstanceIT, who had a client in need of a multilingual website.
31 July 2013 14:11