Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Who Are the Best Translation Industry Professionals to Follow on Twitter?

In the Localization Business Round Table at Localization World today, Kathleen Bostick, VP Global Marketing at Lionbridge, shared how she (@KathleenBostick) and Lionbridge are using Twitter and other social networking technologies.

Whom do you think are the most interesting 'tweeters' in the translation industry?

In addition to Kathleen, here are a few active tweeters I recommend following:

@CSA_Research
@multilingualmag
@GALA_Global
@renatobeninatto
@kvashee
@localization
@donnaparrish

Whom do you recommend? Please add them to the comments below.

If you are going to LocWorld, you can follow the conference here: @LocWorld and by searching for #LocWorld

I'm not yet a twitter addict, but you can follow me here: @AdamWooten

Update 10/26/2009: this is the Social Media Revolution video that Kathleen showed to open her presentation on Social Media:



Update 10/28/09: Kathleen also posted about this round talbe and shared some twitter resources on the Lionbridge Translation Blog: 'Social Media in the Translation Industry: the Buzz at LocWorld'

22 comments:

Pamela Cruz said...

I would recommend all people I follow! Specially @DaniloNogueira @translationguy @xosecastro @cetrainc @ollicarreira @tomellett @matthewbennett @rubendelafuente @sarahdillon @Textklick @philippahammond @NTceline @serenadorey @bonjill @pikorua

Anonymous said...

@bonnjill ! Jill R. Sommer

Janine Libbey said...

To Pamela's excellent suggestions I would add @NadVega, @angeldominguez, and @DenaShunra.

Adam said...

Thank you for the recommendations!

Anonymous said...

Follow me if you wish @diegobartolome

Shoshana said...

@wordtrust
Tweets about translation and localization news, tips etc.

DavidGrunwald said...

You can follow me at @davegrun, I try and post interesting translation industry news. For example a blog post I wrote today on blog.gts-translation.com on the newly released Microsoft Language portal, see http://tinyurl.com/ygla9t2.

You can also follow @GTS_Jobs where we post translation assignments for our company.

Mark said...

My friend @mstevensrev

Kathleen Bostick said...

Thanks Adam for starting this list.
I'd also recommend @globalmisfit, @MichaelAPSmith,@Lionbridge.Also it's worth checking out Lionbridge's Translation Blog for a variety of content http://bit.ly/6Fj7S for a variety of info.

Grant Hamilton said...

@anglais is for people who want to follow the discussions between our translators and editors. It's a sort of "tip a day" for professional English translators who work from French.

Gabrielle Jackson said...

Don't forget @Muddyisms for industry news with a focus on international business stories

Leonor Ciarlone said...

Would add @marylaplante, @lciarlone, @gilbane, and @gilbaneboston for the global content management perspective. Content globalization blog at http://gilbane.com/globalization/

johnn said...

thanks adam

Kirti said...

I agree with many of the choices above but here are some of my favorites.

I would recommend the following as people who provide different and interesting perspectives and great SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio):

http://www.twitter.com/donosborn
http://www.twitter.com/sabineeller
http://www.twitter.com/robvandenberg
http://www.twitter.com/BobD_Austin
http://www.twitter.com/shioyama
http://www.twitter.com/alisontoon
http://www.twitter.com/rubendelafuente
http://www.twitter.com/hansfens
http://www.twitter.com/iveclop
http://www.twitter.com/georgeweyman
http://www.twitter.com/icotext
http://www.twitter.com/TheAgis
http://www.twitter.com/ParaicS
http://www.twitter.com/stevek
http://www.twitter.com/meedan
http://www.twitter.com/ryancoleman
http://www.twitter.com/cetrainc
http://www.twitter.com/j9angler
http://www.twitter.com/textexin
http://www.twitter.com/roomynaqvy
http://www.twitter.com/InEveryLanguage
http://www.twitter.com/fabcid

Rebecca said...

Follow all of the above, but also: http://www.twitter.com/muddyisms
http://www.twitter.com/BobD_Austin
http://www.twitter.com/BeatBabel
http://www.twitter.com/transationhub

Kathleen Bostick said...

Adam, I also have receive requests for the Social Media uTube link - http://bit.ly/4bx1Nr . Thanks for posting.

Adam said...

Thanks, Kathleen! I was hoping you would post that.

Pablo Muñoz said...

Hi!

I tweet (normally in Spanish) about localization and translation technology issues: http://twitter.com/pmstrad

Another colleague I would recommend to follow is @esanchezleon (http://twitter.com/esanchezleon).

I also blog about localization, translation and translation technology: http://algomasquetraducir.com.

Sarah M Dillon said...

Thanks for the mention, @pcruzp ! (That's Pamela Cruz's Twitter, by the way)

Ángel said...

Besides being a translator, I am also a graphic designer and DTP expert. I tweet in English and Spanish.

@AngelDominguez
http://twitter.com/angeldominguez

Regards from Spain,
Ángel.

ForeignExchange Translations said...

ForeignExchange Translations' Twitter feed is at @fxtrans. Tweet, tweet!

Nic loves languages said...

I tweet about language teaching and learning as well as translation. My language direction is German to English and I prefer environmental work.

@niccrosslingo
www.twitter.com/niccrosslingo
www.crosslingo.devhub.com

Nic

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