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Congratulations to Dominick Branigan one of our sales team who recently won the IBN Business Network Trophy in the Düsseldorf Marathon.

Dominick is a keen running enthusiast. This is his 5th marathon in 16 months.

His winning time was 2:49 – a world class time by any standards.

Dominick took part in the Marathon as part of the Irish Business Network Exchange a business organization that promotes business between Ireland and Germany. The purpose and organization of this marathon are a little bit special, several companies were represented by teams of runners from Ireland businesses.  In these teams, there was one part relay and the other was single marathon runners only.

Dominick is the first person from Ireland to win this trophy. His time was world-class and he also finished 69th out of 4500 marathon runners in the Düsseldorf race. What motivated him to participate in this marathon was the willingness to improve his own timing and also the novelty of a new group of runners and running globally. He also took part in the Rotterdam marathon this year.

It was an amazing experience, no stress or pressure as I was running with like minded runners,  The last miles was a magical feeling full of emotion. Dominick

Congratulations Dominick from Star Translation!

Dominick being awarded the IBN Business Network Marathon Trophy

You can follow Dominick and his passion for running in Ireland and abroad on his blog : runningwithnolimits.wordpress.com

We’re absolutely over the moon as they say in Ireland to tell you our Irish language website has been shortlisted for the Web Awards 2012.

STAR’s Irish language website is nominated in the category “An Suíomh Gaeilge is Fearr” – Sponsored by Gaelport.

This year we’ve been working really hard on our Irish. We’re in the process of producing and publishing our focail a day videos (still work to do!). We’ve also added Irish to our blog, check out the latest post on the Fada!.

STAR has a keen interest in the Irish language as we provide English to Irish translation services for county councils, public sector bodies and government departments.

Check out the Web Awards here. #webawards12

We’re delighted to announce our blog is a finalist in the blog awards Ireland 2012. Yippee! We’ve put a lot of hard work in this year and its great to see it being recognized. Check out the competition here:

What we find amazing is the quality of work by Irish bloggers. Blogging is now such a defacto-tool for all businesses (and non-businesses too). Everything from Gardening, busy mums,  keep fit, car maintenance etc. I’ve often asked myself – why do people spend so much time blogging? Is it for the money? I doubt it. Personally I blog for a couple of personal reasons.

1. Money. Yes – blogging for business is indirectly about money. You need to connect to your customers so they understand you and build a relationship with you, your brand and your company. All directly tied back to revenue. Ok so that’s the number 1, but its hard to make any direct money with a blog – its all about branding.

2. Fun. I actually find blogging fun. You get to experiment and share new ideas with people, test ideas on the web, and also share funny stories. Its a bit like a club that you don’t know all the members personally but you share some fun stuff together. The best part is that you can find people that share niche humor together.

3. Legacy. Finally for me its legacy. As I wander through the mid-life crisis (Yes, I am that old), you think about what happens in the future. Will my kids, family and friends ever want to look me up on the web and find out what “mad grandad” did? Well at least I’ve thought about them and am leaving them some digital crumbs to follow. They’ll see me doing Irish word of the day videos, read my blogs and see some other fun stuff. It will give them a few laughs in the future and a view of where they’ve come from.

Did you ever thinking blogging was so deep and serious?

Cheers

Damian Scattergood

The name behind STAR’s blog.

Cá Bhfuil an Obair? WDAR Radio-96fm: Launches new radio series highlighting job opportunites in Irish interviewing STAR Translation. Tuesday 29th May on 96fm
Co. Dublin, Ireland — May 2012 — Cá Bhfuil an Obair?  is a four-part bi-lingual radio series exploring career possibilities available through the Irish language.

News Release
For Immediate Release
Friday – 25th May 2012
Produced and presented by 4th and 5th year students from gaelscoil Coláiste Chilliain, Clondalkin and St. Dominic’s Girls’ Secondary School, Ballyfermot, each half-hour programme will focus on a different area of work where the ability to use the Irish language is a major advantage.  The areas covered are; Translation; Education; Communications and Media; and promotion of the Irish language.  The series is aimed at students of Junior and Leaving Cert level.  Produced in association with West Dublin Access Radio, Cá Bhfuil an Obair? will be broadcast each morning at 10.30am from Tuesday 29th May to Friday June 1st.  To listen, tune in to 96fm or go online at http://www.wdar.ie
Program 1: Translation
10.30am Tues May 29th –
Our reporters visit STAR Translation Services, Dublin, to find out about life as a translator interviewing Damian Scattergood the companies managing director and language staff. http://www.star-ts.com

Listen to the interview podcast.

Program 2: Education
10.30am Wed May 30th –
Teachers from the reporters’ schools talk about teaching in both English and Irish speaking schools.

Program 3: Communications and Media
10.30am Thurs May 30th –
A visit to Stillwater Communications, Dublin, provides our reporters with an insight into how the Irish language thrives in the world of media
http://stillwater.ie/

Program 4: Promoting the Irish Language
10.30am Fri June 1st –
The Cá Bhfuil an Obair? team find out about the type of work opportunities available in promoting the Irish language as well as potential for careers in other areas using the Irish language.
“We are delighted to work with WDAR on this community project. Irish is still a thriving language and this series shows how the language is used in everyday life” said Damian Scattergood MD of STAR translation services.  “Irish is actually our 3rd more popular language to translate.”

You can find more details about the interview here >>> STAR Interview with WDAR RADIO Interview

You can also share this article to make the program known to your friends. We hope to have a lot of listeners on Tuesday to give us as many feedbacks as you can. We are always looking for improvement so you can leave a comment to give us your opinion about the interview or make any suggestions regarding translation.

Social Media Awards 2012 – STAR Social Media Campaign Recognition

Co. Dublin, Ireland — May 2012 — STAR Translation Services is delighted to announce its social media team has been shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards 2012.

News Release
For Immediate Release
May 2012

STAR was recently nominated for the Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards 2012. 100 judges took part in the shortlist process. The final list will be revealed next week but we are already very pleased to announce our nomination for this national event. We have been nominated in 4 categories:
• Online PR Campaign (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube…)
• Video/ Video Campaign (Non-Broadcast)
• Best Business Twitter account – marketing, sales sponsored

The winners will be announced at the finale ceremony which will takes place at the Mansion House in Dublin on May 17th, 2012.

Taking part in this special event and being nominated means a lot to STAR. It is the chance to be recognized for our hard work. For those who are following us, you might have noticed that we are indeed very active through our blog, Facebook page, Twitter account and even our YouTube channel to provide our customers and partners with the best tips regarding translation, languages and Irish.
STAR was formed in 2002, since then we do our best to help our clients grow their business. This is why this year STAR has focused so much on social media. We want to inform our customer that we are always here and ready to help their business to grow worldwide.

We already know that the competition will be tough since we are up against Jedward in one of them for instance. You can follow team STAR by:

• Liking our Facebook page : www.facebook.com/startranslation
• Following us on Twitter : www.twitter.com/startranslation
• Visiting our Blog : http://www.star-ts.com/translation-blog

View all the nominations and find more information on Social Media Award 2012.

About STAR:
Based in Dublin, STAR TS provides translation services in over 40 global languages. It translates documents and websites to enable clients to do more international business every day. With more than 800 people worldwide in the STAR Group, we give you confidence in a translated world. http://www.star-ts.com

Damian Scattergood and Paul Quigley founded STAR-TS in 2001. The entrepreneurs have successfully grown the company to a leading language agency in Ireland in the 10 years they have been in business together.

Further information:
Damian Scattergood
Managing Director: STAR Dublin
Email: dsm@star-ts.com
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614

STAR Technology Solutions
Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614
Fax: +353 (0)1 8364644
Web: www.star-ts.com

We’re delighted to tell you that STAR has been nominated for the Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards 2012. Our followers will know over the last 6 months we’ve been blogging, facebooking and twittering like mad to tell everyone about translation and language. Its been really hard work, but great fun too.

Videos: We’ve a couple of great videos we produced including our learn to speak Irish videos. See our Youtube Channel.

The culmination of all the hard work is that we are nominated in 4 separate categories in the Bord Gáis Energy awards.

• Online PR Campaign
• Blog of a Business
• Video/ Video Campaign (Non-Broadcast)
• Best Business Twitter account – marketing, sales sponsored

The competition will be tough. We’re up against Jedward in one of them!

So wish us Good Luck! You can see the entire nomination list on Social Media Award 2012.

By STAR Translation Services

STAR Translation has been shortlisted for the Dublin Entrepreneurial Business Awards! So we are delighted to share the good news.

The EBA Gala Night will take place in Kildare on May18th. This is the first year for the EBA Awards and it’s great opportunity to celebrate Irish Entrepreneurs at all levels. The awards have regional awards per county and an overall All Ireland award for the best companies. We are shortlisted for our customer service and technology development for our clients. It great to hear good news about so many companies doing well, supporting our country and growing Ireland’s new business culture.

Wish us luck for the National Entrepreneurial Business Awards.

For more information visit the National Entrepreneurial Business Awards website.

By STAR Translation Services.

News Release
For Immediate Release
Monday – 5 March 2012

STAR officially launches the video series “Irish Word of the Day” teaching you how to say a number of common phrases in Irish.  Learn how to say “Hello”, “Thank you” and “Can I have a pint of beer please?” alongside other new Irish words.

To promote the Irish language and culture STAR will publish a new video every morning as part of a special Irish week campaign.

It includes:

• 15 “Irish Word of the Day” videos. They are accessible to everybody whatever your command of Irish,
• Special articles about Irish culture and St Patrick’s Day.
• We’ll also be trying to Blog, Tweet and socialise as Gaeilge fresin (in Irish as well).  We look forward to being social in Irish from the 5^th to 16^th March.

We are on:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/startranslation

Blog: http://www.star-ts.com/translation-blog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarTranslation

Web: http://www.star-ts.com

About STAR:

Based in Dublin, STAR TS provides translation services in over 40 global languages. It translates documents and websites to enable clients to do more international business every day. With more than 800 people worldwide in the STAR Group, we give you confidence in a translated world. http://www.star-ts.com

Damian Scattergood and Paul Quigley founded STAR-TS in 2001. The entrepreneurs have successfully grown the company to a leading language agency in Ireland in the 10 years they have been in business together.

Further information:

Damian Scattergood
Managing Director: STAR Dublin
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614

STAR Technology Solutions

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STAR Translation Services | Confidence in a Translated World

Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland

Phone : +353 1 8365614
Fax   : +353 1 8364644
Web: http://www.star-ts.com

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New video teaches you “How to say I love you in different languages for Valentine’s Day”

Co. Dublin, Ireland — 10 Feb. 2012 — STAR Translation launched a new video on its website for lovers this Valentine’s Day. The cute viral tells you how to say “I love you” in 7 multiple languages.  You can watch it here: http://www.star-ts.com/iloveyou

News Release
For Immediate Release
Friday – 10 February 2012

STAR publishes “How to say I love you in different languages for Valentine ’s Day” video that teaches you how to say “I Love You” into 7 languages for Valentine’s Day.

If you want to say “I love you” or “Will you marry me” to that special person this Valentine’s Day, Star can help you do it in style.  Today sees the launch of our short video dedicated to lovers this Valentine’s Day. It tells you how to say “I love you” in Irish, Italian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, German and English. For more languages the company has a dedicated web page on which you can also find how to say “I love you” and “Will you marry me?” in 28 languages. All the languages are provided as audio files in MP3 format to listen to for free and the video is available both on YouTube and our website: http://www.star-ts.com/iloveyou

"How to say I love you in different languages"

“The project has been realised with the participation of my own children Emma, Sophie and Nathan who are the voices of the video”. It was fun teaching Sophie how to speak Japanese as she is only 10. We all worked hard and had fun” Said Damian Scattergood Managing Director of STAR-TS in Ireland.

“Valentine’s Day represents the opportunity to celebrate love at the same time everywhere in the world. We created this cute video to spread some smiles and happiness across the world. This is our contribution to this special day.” said Stella our PR executive on behalf of the company. “We enjoyed doing this video and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!”

About STAR Technology Solutions:

Based in Dublin, STAR TS provides translation services in over 40 global languages. It translates documents and websites to enable clients to do more international business every day. With more than 800 people worldwide in the STAR Group, we give you confidence in a translated world. http://www.star-ts.com

Damian Scattergood and Paul Quigley founded STAR-TS in 2001. The entrepreneurs have successfully grown the company to a leading language agency in Ireland in the 10 years they have been in business together.

STAR Translation Services – Confidence in a Translated World.

STAR TS: ISO 9001:2008 Certified Translation Provider

Further information:

Damian Scattergood
Managing Director: STAR Dublin
Email: dsm@star-ts.com

Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614
Mobile: +353 (0)87 9370634

STAR Technology Solutions
Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614
Fax: +353 (0)1 8364644
Web: www.star-ts.com

On Friday we attended Enterprise Ireland’s Social Media club #eismclub in EI’s Headquarters.

Captain Pat O'Connor and Damien Mulley discussing Social media policy.

Two fantastic presentations from Captain Pat O’Connor, Spokesperson & Media Relations, Irish Defence Forces and Damien Mulley of Mulley Communications on how to create, roll out and manage your social media presence. As you can imagine for the defence forces this would be a tricky and sensitive area. How do you allow people to blog/tweet and socialise whilst protection national security interests and peoples public/private interests. Captain O’Connor spoke excellently about how they manage this balance. They defence forces have a very well thought out policy and process for publication of information. His presentation was open and he shared a great many valuable lessons with everyone in the room.

Damien spoke about how to manage your presence and policy -and the key elements you need to have in place for a successful social presence.

1. Very important to remember is that in today’s world a Tweet carries the same weight as a Press Release. Captain O’Connor spoke about how some of the defence forces tweets had reached the news before the officical press releases – so you need to be careful how and about what you tweet.

2. So you need to have a Social Media Policy in place. A great site for lots of examples/templates for free social media policies is http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php

3. You should assign people as social media commentators and train them accordingly.

4. You should register your social media profile on all the various systems even if you don’t plan to use them. It can be an expensive and long process to get them back if someone cybersquats them.

5. Have an emergency response policy for social media. This is important to ensure you respond accordingly to manage situation. One company who had their database of clients “hacked” immediately sent out press releases about their “data breach”. This was picked up quickly by the search engines so discussions where about the “data breach” and not the “Hack”. This was a much softer message and a great PR win for them.

6. Finally ensure you tie your business strategy in with your social media strategy. Know your audience/customers, where they are (on what platforms), how they communicate and publish appropriate messages for them. Just like any offline marketing strategy you need to know the who, what, where and when of your messages.