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Last night I had a dream
by Paula Pitkethly Following on from last week’s blog post about volunteering, I’d like to tell you about the first collaborative volunteering project that the Deep End team was recently involved in....
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Podcasts for translators
by Claire Harmer When it comes to new technology I’m a little apprehensive. When my friends and family started listening to podcasts (about 3 years ago!) I didn’t know what all the fuss was about. Now...
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Moving abroad with your business
By Sandra Young Life in London could be exciting, stimulating and fun, but after five years there it was time for a change. Now I am here in Cáceres, forging a new life for myself in Spain. I don’t...
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A Review of The Sound of Music: an ITI Conference masterclass by Ros Schwartz
by Katharine Mears At this year’s ITI conference in Newcastle, I attended the masterclass The Sound of Music, run by renowned literary translator Ros Schwartz. The aim was to explore the overlap...
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Living the dream!
By Felicity Pearce Helen Barlow, founder of A World of Words Translations is literally living the dream. The dream that many of us (myself included) have when we think about being a freelance...
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The Entrepreneurial Linguist and meeting direct clients
By Claire Harmer In October 2013 I attended a workshop organised by the ITI’s London Regional Group entitled ‘No Pain, No Gain – Active Marketing to Direct Clients’. The workshop was given by Judy...
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ITI Medical and Pharmaceutical Network workshop on Diabetes
By Sandra Young This May I attended my second ITI Mednet workshop, this time on the subject of diabetes. For the morning sessions, the group had invited an expert in the field, Dr Shanti...
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Utilising keyboard shortcuts
by Katharine Mears A couple of weeks ago, I attended the workshop ‘Advanced Word course for Translators’ run by Galician translator, writer and broadcaster Xosé Castro Roig. This formed part of an ITI...
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Translation and Collaboration
by Felicity Pearce Last week I attended the exciting Translation as Collaboration Symposium at the University of Westminster, to hear a number of speakers discuss different interpretations (see what I...
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TIME MANAGEMENT FOR TRANSLATORS
by Claire Harmer For translators, time management can be a difficult task, particularly when we have large projects on the go. A few weeks ago I delivered a large (20,000 word) translation which left...
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How can style sheets help you to improve your business?
I attended a webinar by Karen Tkaczyk entitled Take charge: develop your technical style set, hosted by Alexandria Library in May. I wanted to write about what I learned in the webinar and I also feel...
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My first Jelly
by Katharine Mears A couple of weeks ago I attended my first Jelly; an informal co-working event where freelancers and small business owners can bring their laptops, and work, chat and collaborate with...
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Do you secretly want to be a literary translator?
By Felicity Pearce Image from http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk I do. I guess it’s not a secret anymore, but I think it’s quite a common dream among us commercial translators, and most literary...
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Speech, Interpreting and the Brain
by Sandra Young On Friday and Saturday I attended the ITI Medical and Pharmaceutical Network’s most recent workshop on the neurological processes involved in speech. Over the two days we heard from...
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A Review of the London Investor Show 2014
by Katharine Mears With this year’s Investor Shows taking place later this month, I thought this might be an appropriate time to post about my experience of last year’s London Investor Show, how I...
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The Distraction Trap
By Claire Harmer This week I wanted to share some insights from a book I read recently: ‘The Distraction Trap: How to Focus in a Digital World’ by Frances Booth. This post follows on from the last one...
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Guest post by Lucy Brooks
by Paula Pitkethly In September Lucy Brooks kindly hosted us as guest post writers on her blog eCPD Webinars. We are now able to reciprocate by hosting Lucy’s informative post on CPD and its importance...
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Merry Christmas and blogger update!
A very Merry Christmas to our followers from all of us at the Deep End! We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that Katharine Mears and Paula Pitkethly are currently on maternity leave...
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Using corpora in translation
by Sandra Young With the beginning of a new year come new ideas, challenges and resolutions. For the first blog of 2016 I wanted to invite you to explore what I consider to be an invaluable tool for...
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Some thoughts on networking events and using an ‘elevator pitch’
By Claire Harmer Last week I attended an LRG networking event held in central London. The committee has held similar events before but this one had a special focus: creating an elevator pitch. Nathalie...
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