What can a translator tweet about?
Many translators often wonder what to tweet about in their business Twitter accounts. Translation news and blog posts or thoughts and experiences? Check out what Emilia, an English-Greek translator, thinks.
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5 Tips to Make Social Media Work
Looking around the Internet, you will undoubtedly find dozens of different podcasts, seminars, videos, etc., all telling you that your social media isn’t really “working” as well as it could be. Is this true? Can your social media campaigns be working harder, faster and better? The simple answer is yes.
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theloop offers translators a venue to market themselves online
theloop is a unique social network for buying and selling content and services online. theloop’s innovative platform allows individuals and businesses to generate income from their original content, talent and skills.
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Free rate calculator for translators
There are rate calculators for generic freelance jobs all over the internet, but none that take into account the kind of factors that determine our productivity and growth potential. This rate calculator has been made specifically for translators and it also fits in neatly with the theme of the Translation sales handbook that it was originally distributed with.
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Ackuna App Translator Announces its First Contest, Sponsored by Kilgray
Ackuna has consistently become the go-to place for developers looking for an easy way to localize their apps, as well as provide a fun social networking platform for translators to practice their craft and promote their services to potential new clients. Now, Ackuna is launching its first ever contest for the months of March and April, with some rewarding prizes for the winners.
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2nd #TweetupAthens on March 22
As a lot of you may have read on Twitter or Facebook, the 2nd #TweetupAthens is taking place next Saturday on 22 March 2014. We decided to meet at 20:00, in Arismari, a lovely restaurant in Halandri.
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What is the Future of Social Media?
Social media will continue to change, with different social networks trying out different things. Some of which will stick and become the status quo, others will flail around wildly and burn out quickly. We will look at some marketing-specific changes you should expect with social media, and how you can handle them.
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My first translation project – Stefano’s story
On the basis of the widespread belief that “one should have one’s profession, language skills are a plus,” I was encouraged to become a prestigious and respectable engineer or businessman. I was convinced to the extent that I went all the way to Japan to study engineering and then again for an MBA. In the meanwhile, my leisure time was spent studying one language after another, learning the violin and even the piano too…
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