What’s new for ATA57?
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corinnemckay At every ATA conference, we try to strike a balance between maintaining the events that everyone…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org ATA’s Board of Directors met April 30-May 1, 2016, in Alexandria, Virginia. The Board met in…
Read MoreTreasurer's Report for the 2014–2015 Fiscal Year
Ted Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net We are making progress on improving our financial situation, but we still have far to go. Our overall financial performance in FY2014–151 (fiscal year…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Analytics Features in LinkedIn and Twitter
You’ve probably heard the old adage “Know thy audience.” Both LinkedIn and Twitter now provide a number of easy-to-use but powerful analytics functions that…
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Five Essential Coping Tactics
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” —William Arthur Ward, writer Upon setting sail…
Read MoreUpper Midwest Translators and Interpreters Association Offering Support Groups to Interpreters
The Upper Midwest Translators and Interpreters Association (UMTIA), an ATA chapter based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has teamed up with a local therapist in an…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met January 30–31, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting…
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Planning is well underway for ATA’s 57th Annual Conference, November 2-5, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
From the President-Elect Corrine McKay corinne@translatewrite.com San Francisco. Our 56th Annual Conference in Miami was a huge success by all measures, with higher than expected…
Read MoreCharting Our Progress…
From the President David Rumsey nordictranslator@gmail.com In my last column, I made the analogy that running ATA is like steering a very large ship. We…
Read MoreMarilyn Gaddis Rose, 1930-2015
Portions of the following were published on the website of Binghamton University, State University of New York. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, 85, a distinguished service…
Read MoreATA Names Two New Honorary Members
ATA Names Two New Honorary Members Honorary membership is conferred upon individuals who have distinguished themselves in the translation or interpreting professions by a…
Read MoreRethinking Payments
Machine translation (MT) and post-editing are inextricably connected for many within the translation world. No matter how good MT output might be, it cannot…
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