ATA64 Conference Preview: Business Practices Education at ATA64
In about a week, ATA’s annual conference will begin, this year in sunny Miami, Florida. As always, attendees will have to choose how to…
Got Standards?
We cannot underestimate the power of standards when it comes to educating clients! Not only are we adhering to international standards, but we are also following the best practices in our profession to guarantee accuracy, consistency, and professionalism.
Getting Started with ChatGPT to Boost Your Productivity
Your livelihood as a linguist is not threatened by AI, but by AI-enabled linguists. Experiment with AI now and discover your productive use cases in translation, terminology, research, and admin.
Password Management and General Cybersecurity: Keep Yourself and Your Clients Safe
If you follow tech news, you know that it’s not at all difficult to find reports of major companies being hacked and having data stolen. Losing control of your personal information is bad enough, leaving you vulnerable to crimes like identity theft and credit card fraud. But members of the T&I community are also trusted with our clients’ information. We need to protect their secrets as well as our own. In a cyberworld that seems increasingly more dangerous, how can we keep our secrets safe? For language services providers, this is not just an academic question.
Understanding Worker Classification: The ABC Test, Misclassification, and Tips for Professionalizing Your Language Services Business
Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only. Consult a reputable professional for financial, legal, and tax advice related to your situation. Translators, Interpreters,…
How to Make More Money Fast – the 80/20 Principle for Freelance Translators
This post is a reblog, originally published on Marketing Tips for Translators. It is reposted with permission from the author. Do You Know the…
E88: Scams
ATA Podcast Host Matt Baird speaks with Carola F. Berger, PhD, CT about scam types and what scammers are after, such as your information or your money.
A Bid Too Far – On Reaching For and Losing Projects
This post is a reblog, originally published on Tip of the Tongue. It is republished with permission from the author. The question of when…
The Scammers’ New Clothes
I may be wrong, but scam activities seem to be inversely proportional to the economic cycle. Whenever there is the threat of an economic…
Impressive Time Management for Translators: The Time Diet
This post is a reblog, originally published on Productivity Stacks. It is republished with permission from the author. Do you often feel like your…
5 Tedious Non-Translation Tasks ChatGPT Can Do Amazingly Well
Odds are you’ve heard the hype around the futuristic artificial intelligence-based tool currently taking the world by storm. But what is it and what…
How to Plan Large Projects to Minimize Stress
This post is a reblog, originally published in the Tool Box Journal on September 16, 2022. It is republished with permission from the author.…