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
Established in 2004 to offer independent reviews of hotels and travel locations to a Swiss audience, HolidayCheck is now the largest online travel portal in Europe. HolidayCheck launched an English language .com site in 2006, and is currently available in 10 languages. With 20-30 million visits to the sites each month, and more than 10 million independent reviews, Holiday Check is the market leader in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Poland. To increase website visitors in other markets, HolidayCheck turned to Web-Translations for assistance with search engine marketing. In addition to copywriting optimised website content, our experienced team researched and copywrote articles to assist with link building as part of an eMarketing strategy. Read more… “We’ve worked with Web-Translations for over 18 months now and have been very pleased with the off-page optimisation work they have been doing. We check the quality of the work regularly and always find it to be very good. They are responsive to feedback and always […]
8 July 2013 08:18
We like to stay in nice hotels, which is one reason we work with so many of the world’s top hotels…we keep our fingers crossed for a discount or free spa treatment! With websites for Plaza Athénée and Le Meurice in Paris, as well as for The Dorchester Collection and General Hotel Management Ltd in our portfolio, Web-Translations has localised quite a few top hotel sites into various languages, such as French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. We are happy to announce that we will be working with The Nadler in London to localise key pages of their website into 10 languages. Our Sales Director, Jonathan Power, recently had the pleasure of staying at The Nadler, which offers affordable luxury within the heart of London. Jonathan enjoyed the added extras The Nadler has to offer, including a Nespresso coffee machine, GHD hairdryer and the best shower he has ever been in! “I’m pleased we have been instructed to carry out the […]
28 June 2013 16:46