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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

Building Brics

Our newsletter this month focuses on our core business of translation.

During Seachtain na Gaeilge we promoted our Irish translation services on social media like YouTube and Facebook. Meanwhile we are also focusing on expanding markets in the BRIC countries. STAR already has a BRIC presence supporting Brazil, Russia, India and China so we can share our knowledge on these expanding countries.  Finally we’ve been recognised for our quality and hard work by being nominated for 2 separate awards.

BRIC : Brazil, Russia, India and China are the hot topic of discussion in translation and export markets right now. According to the Goldman Sachs’ report, China and India will become the dominant global supplier for manufactured goods and services. Meanwhile, Brazil and Russia will become the dominant players for raw materials and energy.

STAR helps clients who do business in BRIC countries by providing translation services for Documents, Websites and Manuals. If you’re doing business in any BRIC country – STAR can assist you with your language requirements.

Want More BRIC?

What are the best languages to translate into? As a translation company we provide translation in over 45 languages including Irish from our offices here in Dublin 3. We analyzed all our translation for 2011 and are happy to publish the results for our global readers. The top 3 are:

1. German

2. French

3. Irish

As you might imagine our closest international neighbors are top with German and French being the most popular languages we translated last year. Irish was the 3rd most popular language being our native language.

For more results visit out top 10 languages page.

STAR spoke Irish for Language Week – with the launch of our “Irish Word of The Day” Videos . The short video series taught people how to speak a number of Irish words and sentences. You can watch the videos here on http://www.youtube.com/startranslation

What is the correct abbreviation for Doctor?

This week we are having a big debate about this one and we’re still not decided who won. There are multiple camps in this space.
Share your point of view with us – Which abbreviation do you use and why?

Follow the Dr. discussion here:

Budget 2012s finer details were released recently in the Finance Bill 2012 which contains a significant number of items that favour Foreign Direct Investments into Ireland such as:

• Research & Development (R&D) relief
• Foreign Earnings Deduction (FED)
• Special Assignee Relief Programme (SARP)
• 0% corporation tax rate for new companies.

For further information, see Finance Bill 2012

We’re delighted to tell you we’ve been nominated for 2 separate awards for our service and social media work.

Bord Gáis Social Media Awards 2012
Our Social media work has been recognized by the fact that we are nominated in 4 separate categories. You can see all the nominations here: socialmediaawards.com

Entrepreneurial Business Awards (EBA) 2012:
For our customer services and entrepreneurial drive building our business over the last few years STAR has been shortlisted for the Dublin Entrepreneurial Business Awards!

It is fantastic to have our hard work recognized by the market and our customers so thank you all for your continued support and business.

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