Weekly favorites (Aug 1-7)

This is a new weekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the course of the past week (Monday to Sunday). I tweet actively and share a lot of blog posts and online articles on translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media, business and travel. I think all the posts I tweet about are interesting, as I’ve read and enjoyed them, but I can’t avoid playing favorites with the ones I find inspiring or extra helpful to me or others.

The idea for this series of posts came from the people who take a break from Twitter (for a day, week or more) and then ask what they’ve missed while being away. I hope this will help you stay in the loop and never again miss the unmissable posts The content is listed in categories based on the topic, so just scroll down to find your favorite and enjoy reading!

Translation & Languages
Do you want a CV that will get you more translation jobs? (free e-book) by Marta Stelmaszak
How to Create a Quote for Document Translation Services by GPI Translation Blog
EMpTy Pages: Translation Crowdsourcing by Kirti Vashee
Translations – 6 Mistakes that Cost You Money by Lauren Nemec
Interpreting in the Global Village of the 21st Century by Claudia Brauer
Passing as “one of them”: the client Turing test by Corinne McKay
The Secret Language of Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurese 101 by Stephanie Kaplan
ATA’s 52nd Annual Conference, Boston, October 26-29, 2011 by Fabio M. Said
Recap from International Congress for Translators or FIT2011 by Tess Whitty
3 Reasons translators make excellent copywriters by Plush Text Communications

Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
Freelance At A Glance: The Complete Statistics [Infographic] by Richard Darell
The Hardest Thing to Do – Why Firing a Bad Client is the Best Decision by Carla Young
How Freelancers Can Have a Global Mindset for Success by Marissa Sayno
10 Kind Things You Can Do Today to Help Another Freelancer by Laura Spencer
How to deal with difficult clients by Selina Murray
A Guide to Freelance Writing as a Career by Anders Ross
How to Be a Professional Freelancer by Amber Weinberg
HOW TO: Deal With Bad Clients by Nellie Akalp
The Ultimate Event Checklist: Rock the Fall Conference Season! by Rebecca Corliss
7 Things Freelancers Should Never Say by Tamara Rice
20 freelance stereotypes: from personal to work life

Social media
Are you making the best use of social media for your business? by Romina Bona
10 Highly Used and Abused Twitter Trends that are Not Cool by Samar Owais
29 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes by Meg Guiseppi
Turn Those Tweets, Shares and Links into Paying Projects by Dave Thomas

Travel & Other
Take a stroll through Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona

Which blog post or article inspired you this week? Share in the comments section below so we can add your links to next week’s list!