Atlas Newsletter – February 2007
Atlas goes interactive!
The new-look Atlas website is now live, and it is packed with brand new interactive features and even more information than before, enabling clients to make better informed choices about the services they require. The new design aims to make Atlas’ services as accessible as possible, with a “Quick Quote” feature providing instant access to translation rates and new education and training pages listing details of current opportunities and free workshops available from Atlas.
DDA update
As part of its drive to improve the accessibility of its services to all clients, in line with the Disability Discrimination Act, Atlas has introduced new brochures available on CD and in Braille, which can be requested via the company website or by telephone. In fact, the website itself now offers better accessibility to the partially-sighted and hard of hearing, with an easily adjustable font size and colour contrast and an audio version of the brochure available in MP3 format.
Atlas invests in technology and trees
Having recently changed server to Rackspace –one of Europe's fastest growing and most successful managed hosting companies- Atlas hopes to see a further improvement in its communications system, which will directly benefit all clients. As Rackspace is one of only several companies specialising in managed hosting, it is able to offer an expert, tailor-made service, which includes quick responses to critical issues, unlimited technical phone support, guaranteed 100% network uptime and much more.
Rackspace is the UK’s first ever managed hosting company to offer carbon neutral web hosting, reducing the negative impact of its services on the environment. In partnership with leading tree planting charity, the International Tree Foundation, Rackspace has developed a solution which offsets the carbon emissions produced by its web hosting services, whereby the quantity of carbon emitted by each server is calculated and a sufficient number of trees then planted to counteract this amount. All trees planted on behalf of Rackspace are of the British native, deciduous hardwood variety and are aged at least two years, meaning that they are already capable of absorbing a large quantity of carbon to fuel their growth.
According to Tony Warne, chairman of The International Tree Foundation, "Businesses have long had the option of using recycled paper in the office, but as the website and electronic communications become more important, it is encouraging that a web hosting company as significant and high-profile as Rackspace is setting this benchmark for the rest of the industry to follow." And Atlas is extremely proud to be one of the pioneering firms contributing to sustaining the environment in this way.
Exciting list of clients expands!
In February, Atlas will be completing work for an increasingly exciting client base, with projects ranging from the translation of press releases for a world famous musical, through to transcriptions for the hard of hearing and braille transcriptions for the blind. Some of the most high-profile work assigned to Atlas this month includes the translation of an article on the life of a famous Russian spy for one of the world’s most highly regarded fashion magazines, the translation into Welsh and typesetting of a brochure for a high-street bank and a Polish translation for a best-selling cat food manufacturer. Atlas has also translated AIDS awareness literature into Spanish and French on behalf of a leading charity, and recently sent a team of German interpreters to a conference staged by a hair care and beauty product giant, training stylists in the use of its new product range and sales techniques.
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Clare Suttie
Director
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