Title: Introduction to Social Media for Translators - Recorded Webinar Now Available for Purchase!

Presenters: Eve Bodeux and Corinne McKay
Date and time: This webinar took place on Feb 10, 2011, but click here to purchase access to a complete audio and video recording of this or other Speaking of Translation webinars. You can watch then watch the video at your convenience up to 90 days from Feb 10, 2011.
Length: 1 hour

Description: You hear about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and blogging all the time, but do you need to be active on them for success in your freelance translation business? What are the benefits of participation in these forums and what are the constraints? In this webinar we will discuss the business reasons why freelance translators should (or should not) consider getting involved in these social media forums, as well as a brief introduction to getting started on each platform.

This webinar is intended for individuals who have little or no experience in social media. By the end of the webinar, you will have a clear idea of the pros and cons of each of these social media services, how they can benefit your business and which of these social media services may be a good fit for your business strategy. Eve and Corinne will take live questions at the end of the webinar and will answer additional questions on Corinne’s blog and the Speaking of Translation blog.

Note that this webinar can be used toward required American Translator Association continuing education credits for certified ATA members. We will provide a certificate of attendance upon request. See the ATA’s site for more information on activities qualifying for continuing education credits.

About the presenters:

Eve Bodeux is a voting member of the American Translators association and she is based in the Denver, Colorado area. She has 15 years of management and translation experience in the language and localization industries and often presents on related topics for business and language professionals. She is the past editor of the ATA’s French Language Division newsletter and currently Vice President of the Colorado Translators Association. She has presented at many translation industry seminars, including sessions on social media for language professionals at past conferences of the American Translators Association and for the French translators association in Paris. She can be reached at http://www.bodeuxinternational.com.

Corinne McKay, CT is an ATA-certified French to English translator based in Boulder, Colorado. Her book How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator is a widely-cited reference for the translation profession with over 4,000 copies in print, and her blog Thoughts on Translation was selected as one of Lexiophiles’ top 100 language blogs of 2010. Corinne is the current President of the Colorado Translators Association and the Chair of the American Translators Association’s Public Relations Committee. She is a popular speaker at translation industry seminars and has presented on social media for language professionals at past conferences of the American Translators Association and for the French translators association in Paris.

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Handouts: Speaking of Translation webinar attendees will receive handouts that provide complementary information for the session. Those who view the recorded webinar will receive a link to the handout.

Cost: The webinar registration fee is US $40, whether you view the live presentation or the recording.

Terms and conditions: Please note that Speaking of Translation has a no refund policy. If you are unable to attend the seminar, you will be given access to a recording of the webinar for your personal reference. If there are technical difficulties that prevent webinar completion, the webinar will be rescheduled and/or you will be provided with a recording of the webinar for your reference.

Hope to see you there!

You can also subscribe to our feed for updates on future webinars or listen to a sample of our presentations at the Speaking of Translation website.

Corinne McKay and I (Eve Bodeux) are now offering a series of business-related webinars for those in the translation and language services industries. Listen to our past podcasts here to get introduced to our presentation style.
Upcoming topics will include Beyond the Basics of Freelancing and a series on social media for language professionals. We plan to also offer client-focused webinars as well in the future, so watch for announcements about those too.

We are excited to be leveraging the webinar format and the access it gives us to our colleagues and clients around the world to share information and collaborate. We are currently using the GoToWebinar which allows attendees to see the presentation slides and hear the live audio simultaneously as well as review a recording of the webinar at their leisure after the live presentation has taken place.

Mark Your Calendar!

The first webinar we are offering as Speaking of Translation Webinars is Corinne presenting her well-honed presentation Beyond the Basics of Freelancing.

Title: Beyond the Basics of Freelancing

Presenter: Corinne McKayDate and time: originally broadcase Wednesday, January 26, 2011 – Recorded Webinar Now Available for Purchase!
Length: One hour
Cost: $40

Based on Corinne’s sold-out preconference seminar at the 2010 American Translators Association annual conference and her previous webinar on this topic, this one-hour webinar will give you a variety of nuts-and-bolts tips on how to increase your earning power with agencies and increase your findability and name recognition so that direct clients come to you when they need a translator.

To purchase a recording of this webinar to view at your leisure, go to here: Corinne’s webinar page.

Subscribe to our feed for updates on upcoming webinars.

Her presentation is entitled Leveraging Payment Methods and will provide information about how to efficiently and cost effectively make payments to international vendors and receive payments from global clients. Working with clients and vendors worldwide opens up many opportunities, but it pays (literally!) to be aware of the pitfalls and benefits of the many banking and financial options available when processing international transactions.

To see this tip website, visit:
http://ataindenver.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you in Denver!

If you are involved in business internationally, this is a chat for you!

DETAILS

Day: Wedneday, Oct 6, 2010

Time: 1:30 p.m. US Mountain Time / 3:30 p.m. US Eastern Time / 21:00 GMT

To participate, follow and use hashtag #ibtopics as well as Eve (@ebodeux) and Becky’s(@intlentreprenr) timelines.

Come with your questions on international communication as well as your insights to share.

Presentation abstract:

Translation vendors are your partners, and not a commodity or a necessary annoyance. This presentation will share ideas on how to improve your relationships with your vendors from day one. Having a strong and positive relationship with your vendors is not just a feel-good proposition: it makes good business sense.

When? It will be held Saturday, October 30th at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast. Join us to meet your tweeting colleagues face-to-face as well as get together with old tweeps.

Where? Meet in the Hyatt Regency (conference hotel) lobby at 7:30 a.m. at the “Strata Lounge” sign to walk together to breakfast at the Rialto Café.  It has lots of room and a nice choice of breakfast entrées or breakfast bar and is a 5-minute walk from the conference hotel.

If you miss meeting us in the lobby, walk on over to the Rialto by exiting the hotel’s main door and going slightly left to get to California Street. Walk one block up California Street toward the 16th Street Mall. At 16th Street, go left. Walk 2 and a half blocks till you see the Rialto Café on your left.

The Rialto Café is located at 934 Sixteenth Street Denver, CO 80202 and their telephone number is 303-893-2233.

We will use the the conference hashtag which is #ata51 for any additional info.

Be sure to have your mobile tweeting app installed when at the conference so you don’t miss a thing. And, make sure your mobile phone camera is ready to tweet out pics of the event.

See you there!

Specializing in vendor recruitment and team building over my 16 years in the language services industry, I have my own ideas about how to encourage a positive freelancer-agency relationship, but am very interested in what others have to say about it. I am particularly interested in your ideas about when you start such a relationship. Please use the comments field below to share your ideas on this topic.

If you are a freelance translator, what factors are most important to you as you begin a relationship with a translation agency? What makes you feel comfortable? What may turn you off, in the initial stages, from establishing a working relationship with an agency that initially seemed interesting to you?

If you are an agency rep, what is important to you at the beginning of building a relationship with one of your freelance translation providers?

Please be aware that I may reference your comments in my upcoming presentation in Las Vegas.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

The Colorado Translators Association is a not-for-profit group devoted to continuing education, professional development and networking within the language industry. Other elected Board members include Corinne McKay (President), Kathy DiCenzo (Secretary) and David Russi (Treasurer).

For those that attended this session (and anyone else interested in exploring Twitter tools), please see links from the presentation below:

Stats
http://techcrunchies.com/inactive-users-twitter
http://techcrunchies.com/twitter-usage-across-the-world
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39712305,00.htm

How to use Twitter Lists
http://mashable.com/2009/11/02/twitter-lists-guide/

Pages by Twitter (themes)
http://help.twitter.com/forums/83565/entries/75424
Settings > Design

Semi-personalized, free pages
http://www.colourlovers.com/
http://www.stripegenerator.com/
http://www.tartanmaker.com/
http://www.custombackgroundsfortwitter.com/gallery/category/free/

Pages totally customized for you
Your graphic designer or Photoshop, etc.
Technical specs for creating Twitter page: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/18/effective-twitter-backgrounds-examples-and-best-practices/

URL shortening services (free)
http://bit.ly/
http://tinyurl.com/
http://twitpwr.com/

Twitter Search Engines
twitlookup.com/
twootles.com/
twazzup.com/
lilzo.com/
search.twitter.com/ – official Twitter search engine

Alternative Twitter Interfaces
tweetdeck.com
tweetree.com/
tweetvisor.com/
itweet.net/
twitree.com/

Other Twitter Tools
www.tweexchange.com
twinterface.com
tweetcloud.com/
www.tweetswitch.com
www.twilitics.com/
www.stickytter.com/
useqwitter.com/
socialoomph.com
trendistic.com
tweetbeep.com
twellow.com
twittercounter.com
Twitpwr.com

Find us and other CTA members on Twitter
Eve Bodeux: http://twitter.com/ebodeux
Corinne McKay:http://twitter.com/corinnemckay
Cris Silva:http://twitter.com/allinportuguese