The next session of my online course Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts this coming Monday, January 10. I have two or three spots left for anyone who'd like to join us! This is a six week course on business practices (not translation technique) for people with little or no translation … [Read more...] about Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts Monday
Thanks for a great year of blogging!
WordPress sent me a summary of Thoughts on Translation's statistics for 2010; here it is! Thanks to everyone who makes this blog so much fun to write! Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 98,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit … [Read more...] about Thanks for a great year of blogging!
Happy 2011: Are bad habits a form of self-protection?
Happy 2011 to everyone out there in the translation blogosphere! To start the year off, here's a very interesting interview I came across: sports writer Bill Simmons interviewing New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell. Both Simmons and Gladwell draw some interesting parallels between sports and the … [Read more...] about Happy 2011: Are bad habits a form of self-protection?
Reader question: cold-contacting with holiday cards
Here's a followup to my post on What to send clients and colleagues for the holidays. This is a question that recently came up in the online course I teach, and I'd like to put it out to a wider audience. Is it appropriate to use holiday cards as cold contacts to potential clients? If not, why not? … [Read more...] about Reader question: cold-contacting with holiday cards
Speaking of Translation goes webinar
Back in 2008, my colleague Eve Bodeux and I launched the podcast Speaking of Translation and over the years we've gotten some very nice feedback on it. To our knowledge SoT is the only podcast dedicated exclusively to translation and the business of translation. Breaking news: Speaking of … [Read more...] about Speaking of Translation goes webinar