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, Interpreting & Languages
Why is it worth corresponding with your client in their mother tongue?
Are you settling for “fluent” enough when hiring a translator or interpreter?
Top 10 Things You Should NEVER Say to Your Bilingual Child
What are the benefits of distance learning for translators?
Translation and thinking
Steering your translation career
Localization Management: Timeless Advice for New Managers
How Translation Brought a Language Back to Life
Accents Are in the Ear of the Beholder
Worst excuses to keep your rates low
The future of dictionaries? Too soon to tell
Working Words Well: Greatly Underappreciated
Swearing to Make Your Point: A Tale of F**k and Sh*t
3 Questions from Aspiring Literary Translators
The Funny Grammar Guide to Colons and Semicolons
How To Write With A British Accent
How the world is learning to speak in tweets
Those Bloody Bottom Feeders
The importance of legalese
A Translator’s Thanksgiving
FTP. What’s that then?
Signed (and dated)
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
When Bloggers Should Care About Comments… and When They Shouldn’t!
9 WordPress Security Tips To Protect Your Website From Harm
How to Write, Launch and Sell Your Informational Ebook
The Best Blog Growth Strategy is to Say Thank You … a Lot!
A Beginner’s Guide To Web Advertisements For Bloggers
5 Unique Benefits That Freelancers Offer to Their Clients
11 Ways That Companies Fail at Using WordPress
Eight Ways for Freelancers to Market Their Services
The Freelancing Revolution [Infographic]
Get Inside Your Client’s Mind
All About Deadlines
Social media, Web Design & Business
20 Ways to Increase Content Visibility on the Top 4 Social Networks
4 Tips for Optimizing Your Resume with Social Media
10 Guaranteed Ways to Get More Google+ Page Followers
How to Make (and Sustain) a Good First Impression Every Time
5 Tips for Using the New LinkedIn Company Pages
10 Sloppy Social Media Mistakes to Fix NOW
How to use Twitter to market your freelance business
How to Decide When to Turn Down a Job Offer
The tricky question of LinkedIn recommendations
What is effective selling?
Travel & Miscellaneous
10 Wise Lessons: What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
The Entire Internet Weighs As Much As A Strawberry
The 10 Reasons Why You Want to Be More Productive
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep
9 great resources for keeping your skills fresh
Ways to Master the Art of Perseverance
5 times you should never send an email
9 Craziest Balancing Home Items
Be a mentor, find a mentor
25 Worst Passwords of 2011
Anatomy of a Designer’s Brain
10 Craziest Ice Cream Trucks
The Expert Fallacy
Laptop Kama Sutra
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 having included the post ‘Signed (and dated)’!