Translation Favorites (Feb 19-25)
Every week we share on Twitter many interesting blog posts and online articles on translation, interpreting, language, as well as freelancing, blogging, business and social media. If you missed any of the great content we shared last week, here is your chance to catch up.
The content is listed in categories based on the topic, so just scroll down to find your favorite and enjoy reading! You can read the Weekly Favorites from previous weeks here.
If you read any fabulous posts that we missed, let us know in the Comments section or email us at info@linguagreca.com so we can add your links to next week’s list.
Translation & Languages
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
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
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
Freelance At A Glance: The Complete Statistics [Infographic] by Richard Darell
How to deal with difficult clients by Selina Murray
A Guide to Freelance Writing as a Career by Anders Ross
HOW TO: Deal With Bad Clients by Nellie Akalp
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
About the author
Catherine Christaki has been a full-time English-Greek translator since 2001 and co-owner of Lingua Greca Translations since 2012. She specializes in Information Technology, Medical, and Technical texts and loves writing for the Adventures in Technical Translation blog. She regularly shares her experience and insight on social media and blogging for translators, giving interviews and presenting at conferences. Connect with her on Twitter @LinguaGreca.
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Thanks for featuring our blog post! – Marissa and the rest of Team Ajeva
You’re welcome Marissa! I recently discovered your blog and I have been enjoying your posts very much. I’ve also been sharing them on Twitter, so I was wondering: can you please check if it’s possible to feature the author’s Twitter handle next to their name at the top or at the end of the post? I’m a big supporter of giving credit to the person who wrote great content 🙂