Language Transfer ::: Educating freely. Fluent Work Projects. Blog | clickworker.com. Disaster Relief from the Crowd The incredible feats that can be achieved when lots of people work together hand in hand are particularly obvious in extreme situations. The case of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 missing since March 2014 is a good recent example. The satellite data from the US satellite company DigitalGlobe has been reviewed and any suspicious images have been reported by the Crowd. This helped to delimit the search area and simplified the investigations.
Today there are news: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak just informed family members of the flight passengers that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean. Beforehand the investigators believed in a rupture since parts of a plane had been apparently spotted on satellite pictures in an area under search in Australia.
Text creation simplified with clever tools Anyone can write an interesting text? Clickworkers can use their writing skills in different ways. If you are running out of inspiration, dont’t worry! (more…) Series of webinars on Social networking and Social Media for translators. My top ten apps for translators. I’m a huge fan of smart phones and tablets. It sounds clichéd but I can’t remember a better life without them. I thought I would share with you my top apps I use in my daily life which I think are pretty good tools for translators.
Most of them are available for android and Apple. Please do also share what apps you use in your daily life! It’ll be great to find some new ones. In no particular order: Twitter: There’s nothing fancy about this twitter app. BlogSpace: I use blogger to power my blog and BlogSpace is the app for this. Evernote: This is one of the best digital note taking tools I’ve come across. Skype: The Skype app is great because I can still get calls when I’m out and the forward call feature is great. WexEx and GoToMeeting: As a translator I attend a lot of webinars. Calendar and contacts: Where would a freelancer be without his/her calendar? Dropbox: Where would we be without Dropbox? WordRef: This app is a good tool for translators. News apps: News apps are great. European Society for Translation Studies. Bab.la portal linguístico. Corporate Translation Services Ireland. Twitter: your freelance business' best friend - Webinar presentations.
New to Twitter or already using it? Wondering how you can use it to enhance your business and your work? Twitter is probably the most underestimated social networking site out there, yet it is considered by many as the most powerful one in terms of networking and online reputation building/management. What exactly can Twitter do for you and for your freelance business? How can you harness this power to make the best use of it? What are the fine and tricky nuances of the Twitter (n)etiquette? Those are the main topics we'll cover during the webinar. Register now... and tweet about it! Important: This course is part of a series of 3 webinars.
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