Maybe money can’t buy you happiness, but its careful nurture and management can make possible the incredible growth and expansion of a company. No one knows this better than CSOFT’s VP of Finance, Linda Liang, who joins us this week for the latest CSOFT Story.

With CSOFT’s Annual World Summit fast approaching (it’s only a month away now, folks!) there’s a noticeable buzz around the office as everyone prepares. Over here at T for Translation, we’re excited to have the opportunity to hang out with so many of our global team members, including Hiroshi Matsumoto, our Lead Japanese Linguist, and this week’s CSOFT Story.

This week’s CSOFT Story comes to us from Sam Huang, CSOFT’s Chief Architect and Director of Technology Development. In this post, we find out about Sam’s passions as well as just how exactly he’s able to maintain the serene calm and positive attitude he’s known for. Read below to learn more!

With the gloomy weather of the winter now firmly in our rearview mirror, T for Translation celebrates the long-awaited Beijing sun by featuring another of our shining stars: Marisa Bowers, Senior Director of Global Account Management. Here, she discusses how she maintains her laser-sharp focus on results, as well as the challenges of being a roaming client-interaction doyen!

This week at T for Translation, we zoom halfway around the world – much like a bird a plane a copyright-protected superhero from our fondly remembered childhoods – to hear from Jesse He in the latest episode of CSOFT Stories. Read on to find out more about Jesse’s super abilities.

With the sun shining out here as Beijing springs into warmer weather, we thought it appropriate to feature our lovely Chiara for this week’s CSOFT Story. With her ebullient personality and beaming smile brightening up the CSOFT office, Italian native Chiara Conte has much to say regarding the future of translation, personal growth, and keeping a sunny disposition as the pressure begins to mount. Read on for more!

Beginning next Monday, CSOFT will be attending the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference in Providence, Rhode Island. We’re excited to be attending this event and you should be too. Here’s why:

CMS/DITA is a gathering of some of the biggest names in content management, including Adobe and CIDM. For those unfamiliar with the term ‘content management,’ according to TermWiki, it is the “process of managing, organizing, storing, tracking ownership of, and distributing information.” Given today’s technological advances, when people refer to content management they generally mean online and digital content. CSOFT will be there to promote our multilingual content and terminology management services, as well as our localization and globalization capabilities.

With all the hustle and bustle going on here at T for Translation, we’d like to take a second to share another CSOFT Story. This week we hear from CSOFT’s Senior Director of Global Delivery, Sherry Wu, who, as it turns out, happens to be an expert in the field of multi-hat wearing. Check out her interview below!

Today marks the first day of the three-day E-Learning Expo Paris conference, where CSOFT is exhibiting its e-Learning and multimedia localization expertise. As e-Learning courses continue to grow in popularity, this annual event has been concurrently expanding year on year. Let’s take a look at some e-Learning-related findings and other compiled statistics:

• Corporations save between 50-70% when they replace instructor-based training with e-Learning, with 85% of the cost for instructor-based training tied to delivery of information (instructor time, travel, etc.).

• From 1995-2011, the utilization of e-Learning in American corporations grew from 4% to 77%, a growth of almost 2000% over 16 years.

So, blue sky days aren’t all that prevalent here in Beijing. However, a silver lining to the nigh-on perpetual “cloud” hanging over the city is that when blue skies do occur, we’re all that much more appreciative of them. So much so that it’s actually quite difficult to have a bad day – the world just seems like a brighter and happier place. One person with whom this particularly resonates is Justin Wang, our latest interviewee in the series of CSOFT Stories. Dive on in to this week’s post and see what Justin has to say below.