Success with Standards

Tell Us Your Story

Beginning January 1, 2008, LISA is sponsoring a new contest. We are looking for success stories with using LISA standards (TMX, TBX, SRX, GMX, xml:tm), stories that tell how you solved a problem—big or small—using one or more LISA standard. We will feature selected stories, along with a link back to your website, on the LISA website, and at least one lucky winner will receive a free attendance at a LISA workshop of his or her choice.

Success stories should be in English and no longer than 1500 words. They should describe how you used a LISA standard to save time or money. The stories don't have to be about how you saved your company a million dollars (although we certainly wouldn't object to that kind of story); they can be about how using TMX saves you 15 minutes in a manual process that used to take 30 minutes, about how you were able to integrate two termbases with TBX, or about some other way in which our standards make your life easier. The only requirement is that the story involve one or more of the current LISA standards and that it describe what you did and what the results were in a way that will help others understand the value and applicability of these standards.

Stories should be sent to arlego@lisaaway.org in Word or plain text format by March 14, 2008. You are welcome to include graphics if needed to illustrate your story. If your story is selected for inclusion on the LISA website, we will ask you for a picture of yourself and a release to publish the story. If your story is selected as the best overall entry by a panel of LISA judges, you will receive a certificate good for one free attendance at any single-day LISA workshop anywhere in the world (or a 50% discount on a two-day workshop), a €450–€550 value. In addition, we will recognize the winner in an awards ceremony at the next LISA Forum held in the region of the world in which the winner resides.