Translators' Web Presence

Tomorrow we are going to work on blogs as the last activity for the course. While I was looking at my twitter, I came across this video by Ian Emmet. It is a very simple way of advertising what his translation company does.



Via twitter, Ian Emmet has sent me a couple more videos. The one below shows some of  his hospitality and tourism translations.


You can achieve something similar with one of the many open source movie making/slide sites (animoto, stupeflix, even slideshare, smile box, etc).

You could easily create a similar little video with photostory or movie maker. Then you upload it onto your blog or onto youtube or vimeo to give it more air play.
Social media marketing for transaltors is becoming more topical by the minute.There are even webminars taking place. Just explore the net to get ideas and learn form what is going on out there!

Holiday Readings

I know you are having a rest from your classes or still working on your assignments and homework, but I thought you may be interested in a few sites related to interpreting (and applicable to translating in most cases). Here they are:

• Aventuras de una traductora interprete de Madrid writes about Los Gastos de cancelación.
• Don de Lenguas, radio blog published by the Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación de la Universidad de Salamanca, broadcasts interviews with professional interpreters and translators.
• Bootheando publishes a list of her favourite interpreting/translating blogs in A ♥ for Language Blogs  

 Happy reading/listening!