From the President-Elect: Heading Out West to Portland!
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From the Executive Director: Your Membership Is Your Connection
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Five Ways to Encourage Patient Self-Reliance and Autonomy for Health Care Interpreters
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One-Eyed and Canny: Why You Should, and Can, Market Your Services through Public Speaking
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Who Are ATA鈥檚 Certification Graders?
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Narrowing Down When You Want to Do Everything
An 鈥淚 want to do everything鈥 mindset is common to freelancers. The key here, if you know you have this tendency, is to ask yourself some big-picture questions for discernment.
Some Fundamentals of Project Management
At its most basic, managing expectations is about proactive, clear, and explicit communication. Managing expectations is also about showing respect for one鈥檚 partners in the collaborative translation process.
How to Lose Customers
Customer retention depends on many factors, some of which are the result of pure luck and some of which can be managed by design. Since we cannot control the former, it鈥檚 even more important to work on deliberate strategies to maintain good customer relationships. There鈥檚 no magical,
one-size-fits-all approach that will work in all situations, but we can take steps to help us keep our best customers. Remember, it鈥檚 easier to keep existing customers happy than to find new ones.
Resources for You: ATA鈥檚 New Model Contract for Translators
The revised ATA Model Job Contract is available online! This template-style form was developed from best practices in the industry and includes standard conditions and terms that should be defined for every job. Translators who don鈥檛 have their own contract or want to amend their current agreements can now use ATA鈥檚 version and adapt it to their own situations.
How to Help Everyone Cross the Linguistic Bridge: Tips for Accessible Digital Translation and Interpreting
Your work as a T&I professional touches many, including individuals with disabilities. By adding accessibility checks to your process, you鈥檒l be helping everyone cross the linguistic bridge.
Shohei Ohtani鈥檚 Japanese Interpreter Under the Microscope
Interpreting, ethics, and the importance of professionalism in language access Given that language professionals often work behind the scenes, it鈥檚 uncommon for the outside…
Using AI for Translation: (When) is it Safe?
If you鈥檙e a translation buyer, you鈥檝e probably heard a lot of buzz lately about the artificial intelligence/machine translation (AI/MT) boom. No question about it,…