Trello is a free tool that helps you see what needs to be done and organize collaboration on projects. Learn how it can be useful
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Bad Advice for Novice Skydivers: “Learn As You Go”
Why the First, Best Lesson I Learned about Translation Was a Healthy Fear. I was a poor, scrawny white kid with crooked teeth who grew
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Paving the way
There are two basic truths which apply to the profession of translation: we learn from our mistakes; and we learn from other people. If we
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Translation technology – What’s still missing and what has been fixed?
Letter That Was Sent in Advance to Tool Vendors I would really like to thank you again for your willingness this past year to respond
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Three Lessons: Humility, Collaboration, Perseverance.
All three – in that order – hold the key to becoming a world-class translator. An interviewer, who was also a writer, once asked me
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Why Translators are Promoting Premium Markets
As one of the more visible proponents for moving upmarket into the premium translation market sector — a position I’ve argued since 1997, but one
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My Golden Rules For Quality Assurance In Translation
In the highly competitive global translation market quality may be the main differentiator – a factor that makes the difference between success and failure. Quality
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Risks and Hidden Costs of Spreadsheets as PM Tool
Spreadsheets have been around for more than 30 years. It is thought that spreadsheets have helped the past economy by enabling companies to organize data
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Adding Value to your Translation and Editing Services
As an autodidact, albeit with 14 years experience as a translator and editor, plus a couple of years studying linguistics at the University of Western
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The New Profile of A Translator
Today, a translation project leader should have some specific skills. We’ll take a look at these skills and declarations of some colleagues that have already
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