Projecting the Cost of ATA’s Annual Conference
The conference pricing tool was designed to provide conservative figures for both revenues and expenses in accordance with good accounting practices. How does ATA…
Navigating Language Access in Legal Proceedings at the Philadelphia Bar Association
As members of ATA’s Public Relations Committee, those of us assigned as event speakers were asked last year to identify groups or organizations in…
Interview with John Ayto, Lexicographer
I admit it, I love words. Consequently, I have always been fascinated by dictionaries and have a certain reverence for lexicographers—those who compile them.…
How to Develop Effective Communication Skills to Get and Keep Clients
Effective communication is both a means to achieve your business goals and the very essence of your business. Have you ever been unsure about…
Building Upon a Strong Foundation
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey In addition to living on the West Coast, where sailing is a major pastime, I also share…
Study Day: Looking at the Big Picture
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corinnemckay In addition to serving as the conference organizer, ATA’s president-elect traditionally organizes the Board’s annual Study…
Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met January 21–22, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. The…
Treasurer's Report for the First Five Months of FY2016–17
Treasurer’s Report Ted Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net I’m very pleased to report that the Association’s finances have continued the positive development of the past few years.…
Morphing into the Promised Land
I’ve been very interested in morphology in translation technology. No, let me put that differently: I’ve been very frustrated that the translation environment tools…
Is Twitter Stupid?
Without even getting into politics, there are many controversial things in the world today, and Twitter is one of them (albeit one that’s relatively…
Sailing into 2017
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey As most of you have noticed by now, I’ve been using the analogy of a ship to…
Onward, to ATA58!
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corinnemckay ATA57 is in the history books. And by almost any metric, it was a huge success.…