The American Translators Association has just announced a naming contest for the new translation client outreach newsletter. The winner receives free registration to the 2010 ATA annual conference in Denver and an acknowledgement in the first issue… go for it! Here’s the text from the ATA announcement: Calling All Wordsmiths: Name ATA’s New Client Newsletter [...]
Archive for December, 2009
YouTube clip: Peter Less on interpreting at Nuremburg
Posted in Interpreting, Interviews, tagged Interpreting, Nuremberg, Peter Less, YouTube on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an interesting YouTube clip (it’s short, just over a minute) of interpreting legend Peter Less talking about remaining impartial while interpreting at the Nuremberg Trials. Less, who won the ATA’s Gode Medal (one of the translation world’s highest honors) in 2006, fled to Switzerland as a teenager but his mother, father, sister and grandmother [...]
The end of year to-do list
Posted in Freelancing on December 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Because you’re not doing anything else at this time of year (insert laughter here…), it’s time to review your end-of-year business checklist so that you can set some goals for next year as soon as 2010 kicks off. Here are a few things to consider, and feel free to add your own end-of-year action items [...]
End of year gifts for clients and colleagues
Posted in Clients, Marketing, tagged client gifts, colleague gifts, end of year on December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s that time again… the gift basket catalogs are arriving by the armload, reminding us that it’s time to thank our clients and colleagues for their business and support over the past year. What’s the best way to do this? Better to go traditional or creative? High-end or fairly basic? The answer depends on your [...]
