Over 47,000 Language Professionals Joined ProZ.com in 2006

Company records highest single-year registered user and membership increase

Syracuse, NY, February 21, 2007 — ProZ.com, the world’s leading enabling and sourcing platform for language professionals, today announced that the company added 47,571 net new registered users last year, increasing its network of language professionals to more than 170,000 worldwide. Paid memberships also increased, by more than 50% over the previous year.

Additionally, site user and membership growth was accompanied by strong growth in overall site activity. Notably:

• More than 5,000 companies used ProZ.com to locate language professionals for more than 60,000 projects.

• Daily traffic increased, with as many as 80,000 users viewing up to 1 million pages per day.

• The community's shared archive of over 1.5 million terms with translations is now searched up to 60,000 times per day.

• Off-line conferences were held in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Edinburgh, and informal local “powwows” were held in more than 40 countries.

“In 2006 ProZ.com reinforced its position as the leading portal in human translation,” explained Henry Dotterer, president at ProZ.com. “I attribute the growth we experienced to the groundwork laid by ProZ.com's members, moderators and staff over the last seven years. The market is validating the unique web-based workplace that we have formed together.”

Being a platform for networking and collaboration, ProZ.com's value to users increases as the community grows. The more professionals there are using the site, the more likely it is, for example, that someone will be available at any given time to assist with a tough term or a pressing technical issue. Similarly, for clients, a large user base makes it possible to find experts in a wide variety of languages and areas of expertise. In a virtuous cycle, this possibility in turn attracts a large number of clients—to the benefit of ProZ.com's translator members.

"ProZ.com is a truly amazing source of new business for professional translators,” Commented UK-based Russian translator Konstantin Kisin. “It is the most worthwhile investment I have ever made in my business, by a long shot."

From the client side, Paola Ludovici MacQuarrie, director of recruitment and external resources for Lexi-tech International, said, “In the deadline and quality driven environment of a large translation company like Lexi-tech International, ProZ.com CONNECT! [the site's new sourcing platform] has proven invaluable, time and time again, in locating available professionals with the linguistic and technical skills to meet our clients' requirements.”

Joining ProZ.com – translator or outsourcer

Language professionals can register their profiles at ProZ.com for free. For information on full membership, available for just 120 EUR/USD per year, see: http://www.proz.com/join

For information on the newly introduced ProZ.com CONNECT! sourcing and linguist management platform, see http://www.proz.com/connect

About ProZ.com

With more than 170,000 registered translators and interpreters representing over 400 languages, ProZ.com is by far the world’s leading enabling and sourcing platform. Leading organizations that have used the site to find candidates and companies for translation jobs include Bloomberg, IBM, Honda, eBay, Lexi-tech International and The World Bank. Language professionals use ProZ.com’s unique online workplace to share resources and collaborate on tough terms empowering themselves to more quickly and efficiently perform their demanding work. For more information, please visit http://www.proz.com/connect

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