Yesterday I joined seven technical writers in a Meetup group for lunch at the Ottawa Bagel Shop. Len Fardella, owner of Peter’s New Jobs told me about this group when he heard that I want to meet more technical writers (technical writing and translation are closely related). It is a…
Greetings from Orlando Florida on this March 21st, first day of spring! I am here with my family to spend March break. Today for the first time I have reached the magic number 500 in the number of contacts on my Linkedin profile. For many years I hid behind my…
The Association of Language Companies’ annual conference is taking place in New Orleans on May 16-19, 2012. It is one of the largest gatherings of translation company owners in North America. Huiping Iler, the president of wintranslation will be presenting at this conference on how to Increase the intrinsic value…
TMS Inspiration Days is an international conference focusing on the functioning of the business and technology aspects of the translation industry. Its third annual conference is scheduled to take place in April 19-20 in Cracow, Poland. One of the key organizers of TMS Inspiration Days is the company LIDO-LANG which…
Last Thursday Feb. 23rd, the CEO of the Translation Bureau Donna Achimov delivered a workshop on the future of translations for the Government of Canada titled The Canadian Language Industry: Charting the Course for the Future. The recording of the webinar is here until April 27th: http://archive.isiglobal.ca/vod/pwgsc/2012-02-23/2012-02-23_en.html