Nov

28

Using Twitter to micro-blog live

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Check out Philippa Hammond’s write-up of the Translator as Strategic Partner Conference over at Blogging Translator. Philippa was micro-blogging live over the conference weekend and has used her updates as a basis for her post. A fantastic example of how to use Twitter in a professional context.
More than that though, her post contains some really [...]

Nov

13

Project managers get in on the act

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It’s not easy for a company to let their employees loose on a company blog, and most companies are too afraid of the results to give it a try. But that’s exactly what the UK-based company Web Translations seems to be doing

Oct

24

5 Qs with Renato Beninatto, Common Sense Advisory

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With nearly a quarter-century executive-level experience in the localisation industry under his belt, Renato Beninatto has been researching and leading the consulting practice of Common Sense Advisory since 2002. Here he offers us a business consultant’s view of freelance translation practitioners, and language service providers (LSPs) in general.
Naked Translator: You’ve worked in localisation for many [...]

Oct

16

Twitter: this director’s cut

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Sometimes it can help to actually *see* someone using an application to grasp its possibilities as they may - or may not - apply to you. I’ve already written about where Twitter stands for me in the grand scheme of social media things. Here are three little screencasts to give you a quick visual overview [...]

Oct

6

Social Media for Freelance Translators

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I went to a conference for solo business owners recently and the question on everyone’s lips was ‘Do you blog?’ Well, yes, I do actually. Micro AND macro, as it happens.
There seems to be a lot of mystery around the business benefits of social media, including the ways in which it can be applied to [...]

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