A lot of content consultants we know consult first only to cut and run, leaving you and your organization to muddle through on your own when it comes time to implement their recommendations. We’re hands on—on purpose. Here are some of the deliverables that we routinely put in place after first consulting to determine the gaps in your global content strategy.
To Improve the Caliber of your Content
- Global Readiness Reporting and Analysis
- Pre-Translation Editing
- Global Ready Writing and Editing Training
- Additional Training Courses (On Demand)
- Pivot Language Development
- Terminology Development and Management
Acrolinx-Specific Offerings
Global Readiness Reporting and Analysis
Curious to know how your content is doing? Interested in seeing where you can save money on your translation costs, while simultaneously improving the quality of your English source? Our global readiness reporting and analysis service provides a detailed look at your content from a grammar, style, and global readiness perspective. Combine it with our editing services and you’ll be saving money in no time.
Pre-translation Editing
Our specially trained editors work with your content to make sure it is ready for localization and translation. Our pre-translation editing service focuses on the 5 key areas that ensure your content is ready for the world.
- Shorten long sentences
- Remove needless words
- Increase sentence reuse
- Eliminate grammatical errors
- Rewrite idiomatic phrases
Global Ready Writing and Editing Training
Does your content need to be translated and understood in multiple languages? Our global ready writing course teaches your content developers how to create content that can be easily, cheaply, and effectively translated into multiple languages. Our pre-translation editing course teaches your editors the common and not-so-common errors they need to correct to make your content ready for translation.
Additional Training Courses on Demand
Our senior instructional designers can craft any type of training that you need for your content creators. We can customize the training environment to fit your specific content, terminology, style, and grammar rules. Whether it is instructor-led, web-based, or multimedia, we can craft a training solution that fits your environment.
Pivot Language Development
You know you need to translate. But your current writing style is very hip. Very colloquial. And very idiomatic. Let us create a standard English version of your content as a pivot language that your translators can use to create accurate translations. Having a pivot language allows you to maintain your creative voice, while maintaining a global ready version for other countries.
Terminology Development and Management
The words you use to describe your company, products, and services matter. They reflect on your brand. They maintain compliance with standards and regulatory agencies. Terminology can make your content easy to read or make your content unintelligible. How do you make sure that everyone in your organization is using identical and approved terms? Our terminology management service uses state of the art tools to harvest and extract your terminology, validate the preferred and deprecated terms that you need to manage, and corral it all into a comprehensive database. Then, our trained professionals work with your content to guarantee conformance with your terminology. We check-in periodically (quarterly, half-yearly) to make sure your database is up to date and accurate. Acquired a new company? No problem. We can adapt your custom terminology to handle any additions, deletions or changes you need to accommodate your acquisition.
Acrolinx IQ Lexicon Tune-up
Terminology is a living entity. It doesn’t stop changing just because your term database has been finalized. Every time you ship a new product, acquire a new company, or are faced with new regulations, the terms you use to create content grows and shifts. Our lexicon analysis and update service analyzes your Acrolinx IQ terminology database and compares it with your current content. We provide a specific set of recommendations or we can customize your deployment with the changes we discover.
Acrolinx IQ Rule Analysis
Are you trying to check marketing content against a technical documentation rule set? Have you acquired a company that uses a different writing style? We analyze your content against your current rule set and make specific recommendations so that checking your new content is easy and accurate.