It must be something about the holiday season that makes bloggers’ thoughts turn to the work/life balance or lack thereof. Here are some excellent posts from around the blogosphere: Jill Sommer’s post ‘Tis the season for no work/life balance points out what many of us are experiencing: clients who have tons of work for us [...]
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Everyone’s talking about work/life balance
Posted in Freelancing, Links, Working from home on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Translation and interpreting: Best Careers 2011
Posted in Links, Translation industry news on December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you haven’t yet read it, make sure to check out Alexis Grant’s article in US News & World Report, highlighting translation and interpreting as one of the “Best Careers for 2011.” The article is very well-written and the comments are aflutter with questions from new and aspiring translators and advice from experienced ones!
Some interesting links
Posted in Freelancing, Links, Translation industry news, Translation technique on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As Thoughts on Translation wraps up for the holiday week (U.S. Thanksgiving is Thursday), here are some websites and blog posts that you might enjoy looking at: Eve Bodeux is giving away some SmartPlay language-learning products for kids on her blog; see the end of the post for how to enter. Writer Michelle Rafter has [...]
Thanks to…
Posted in Links on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kwintessential for including Thoughts on Translation in their top 10 translation blogs for 2010! And congratulations to the other winners, they’re all in my feed reader! Jonathan Goldberg for interviewing me on his blog “Le mot juste en anglais.” And thanks to Marianne Reiner for the French translation!
Links from the translation blogosphere
Posted in Links on June 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here are links to a few blog posts that I enjoyed reading this week: Jill Sommer on Freelancing means the freedom to say no. I think it’s all too common that freelancers, especially women freelancers, feel that they can never object to a client’s terms or requests. Thanks for this reminder, Jill! Sadly, Paula Dieli [...]
Insider tips for this year’s ATA conference
Posted in Links, Professional associations on May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here at the Colorado Translators Association, we’ve launched a WordPress website with Insider tips for the 2010 annual conference of the American Translators Association, which will come to Denver in October of this year. We’re excited to welcome our colleagues from around the U.S. and the world to the Mile High City and we hope [...]
Some interesting links
Posted in Links on April 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Some coffee break reading from the translation/word industry blogosphere: Paula Dieli over at Essential Project Management has a great post on creative ways to save money in times of crisis. Paula reports that her local translators’ association is saving $1,000 and a lot of paper by using electronic voting for their annual elections! You’re welcome [...]
A positive and a negative
Posted in Links, Translation industry news on April 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Happy Monday! To start the week off, here’s some positive and negative news from the language world: Positive: I was just listening to NPR‘s Talk of the Nation while eating lunch, and today’s segment featured an interview with NPR’s longtime (and now retiring) war correspondent, Anne Garrels. Garrels started her career reporting in the former [...]
Some links for your reading pleasure
Posted in Links on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thoughts on Translation has been on three continents in the last two weeks, so we’ll let some other translation bloggers do the talking. Fortunately the translation blogosphere has been alive with ideas lately, here are a few that I found interesting: Two posts from Kevin Lossner over at Translation Tribulations: The state of OmegaT and [...]
SFT presentation links
Posted in Links on March 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Eve Bodeux and I will be giving two presentations (Marketing your translation services to clients in the United States and Web 2.0 for translators) for the Société Française des Traducteurs this week. Following are the links to some of the sites I will be mentioning in my sections of these presentations. Marketing your translation services [...]
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Corinne McKay is an ATA-certified French to English translator specializing in international development, law and non-fiction books. She launched Thoughts on Translation in February, 2008 as a way to connect and share ideas with freelance translators around the world.
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