There are many ways to translate a document but professional translators need to maintain quality and so use translation tools to productionize the translation process (repetition and continuous improvement of the same process). Here we discuss five key translation tools: Trados...
There are many different types of video editing: simple cutting, based on a theme, reduction editing or compilation. Choose the best type of editing for you....
I retain a passionate interest in business management tools. I regularly overhaul my management architecture, to find the best configuration to manage my business and my information flows. I’m constantly on the lookout for useful, innovative, practical tools to manage my...
The translation management database helps me to manage my translation projects, create statistics on my productivity and drive invoicing. Numbers produced (combinations) I produce some or all of these combinations Axis Production words Production time Hourly rate (GBP) Hourly word rate...
If you use Evernote as your GTD inbox, you may find this system useful. It uses a Kanbanote dashboard to filter and sort content to drive next actions in Evernote. Functional Requirement The functional GTD requirement is to have a way...
The Content Production Machine With Ayoa workflow Despite my evaluation of Ayoa being too slow for everyday use, I have come back to the Ayoa workflow because currently, I know no better way of organizing Evernotes into a kanban such that...
Managing a company is complex, with multiple aspects; administration, how to make yourself known, what strategy. Especially when you are self-employed and have to ask yourself what services to develop, in what order and relying on what resources. This task is...
The challenge for me has been to write more about Ayoa when I am no longer entirely convinced – and no longer use it operationally. I was very keen at first and included Ayoa in my trusted management system. I built...
The Trusted Management System is an extension of the GTD idea of Trusted system. Here I describe my system configuration, how it meets my requirements and the benefits of each module. There are many ways to build a managment system: either...
This is my take on some tricky words to translate, that I came across in my work. At least there may be some terms which may have culturally different implications, emphases or approaches which aren’t necessarily fully reflected in the words...
Here is an interesting project which we processed as part of our old scanning services. Glass plates of St Pierre and Miquelon around 1880 – a visual trace of the fishing trade with Brittany. See also the history of St Pierre...