Category: Webinars
Greetings everyone and happy 2016! Here’s to a happy, healthy, and (why not…) lucrative year for all of us in the translation and interpreting industries. I have a couple of exciting guest posts to kick off the year, but first, a couple of announcements: On January 14, I’m presenting a webinar on Translating for the International …
On September 3, Steve Lank (Vice President for Translation at Cesco Linguistic Services) and I are presenting a webinar for ATA, on Effective Marketing to Translation Companies.
On April 23, I’ll be presenting Breaking into the direct client market for SDL’s webinar series. It’s free and will last about an hour. I’ll talk about the reasons you might want to work with direct clients, how to design marketing materials for direct clients, how to look for untapped niches in the translation industry, and …
After tomorrow, the Thoughts on Translation world headquarters will be closed for vacation through January 4, so before we dig into today’s topic, here are a few end-of-year recommendations: Start thinking about taxes as soon as you get back from your holiday break. You can close out your books immediately, so why not do it in …
This morning I presented a webinar for the ATA professional development series, entitled “Translating for the international development sector.” We didn’t have time to take questions, so if you have any, you can send them to me here. Also, if you have any feedback that you didn’t include on the evaluation, you can post it in …
The American Translators Association has two upcoming webinars that might be of interest to you: On September 11 at 12 noon New York time, the ever-engaging Jill Sommer is presenting a one-hour session on Navigating Your First ATA Conference. If San Diego will be your first conference, I cannot recommend this webinar enough. Jill will tell …
This past Wednesday, I had the pleasure of interviewing translation technology guru Jost Zetzsche during a question and answer conference call. If you missed the live call, you can listen to the recording on the Speaking of Translation website (it streams from the conference call provider, so you don’t need to download anything unless you want …
On January 25 at noon New York time (the same time as the Speaking of Translation question and answer call), my good friend and colleague Cris Silva is presenting what looks like a fabulous webinar for ATA, on webcast and telephone interpreting. Cris does a lot of remote interpreting for high-profile events, so I’m sure that …
Although I just posted a bunch of links yesterday, these are too good not to share! German to English translator Jill Sommer has presented the first-time attendees’ orientation at the ATA conference for many years, and she restyled that presentation into a webinar. It covers topics such as how to prepare for the conference, how to …
This morning, Eve Bodeux and I (in our incarnation as Speaking of Translation) did an interview with superstar translator Chris Durban, focusing on her tips for working with direct clients. Whether you’re just testing the direct client waters or you’ve been in the direct client market for a while, Chris has lots of practical tips and …
