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....
Here is the cabaret recorded by mjlvideo.fr in 2013. We recorded the cabaret, edited the video, and ensured the sale of the DVD in favour of the Association A Portée de Choeur Auray. The creation of the APDC Association in pictures....
Jean Guillemet talks about the countryside This is a 58-minute documentary built from 22 hours of recording. L’Espérance de Vie was screened in three local cinemas – in Josselin Locminé and Grand Champ. It concerns Jean Guillemet a well-known amateur cyclist...
This comparison of Evernote, Nimbus, Notion and Todoist is based on quite extensive usage. Evernote I use Evernote as the document library, but increasingly I use Notion for all things archive, for collections and databases, issues. While Evernote was the goto...
I’m a technical translator with business and technical experience in information systems development, 10 years as a freelancer running a video transfer business and as an Excel teacher. I worked in France and the UK for 10 years. See the CV...
Systems analysis case studies established on the principle that any system can be analysed as long as its boundaries are established and any assumptions stated....
Business management software helps to fix objectives and plan for change. If you are an entrepreneur, try to learn as much as possible, since this management creates and maintains the production capacity that will enable you to work. Many thinking hats...
The translation management database helps me to manage my translation projects, create statistics on my productivity and drive invoicing. See here for more information on the design of the translation database. I record the time spent working on translation projects, the...
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...
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 it actually generates action. However, I retain...
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...
I describe the configuration of my Trusted Management System as an extension of the GTD idea of Trusted system, how it meets my requirements and the benefits of each module. There are many ways to build a managment system: either an...
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: glass plate photos of St Pierre and Miquelon around 1880 and talks about the fishing trade with Brittany. We processed these files as part of our previous digitization services. See also the history of St Pierre...
Here is the story of the Creation of the association and the show A Portée de Coeur Auray in favor of the restos du coeurin Auray – articles from Ouest France between 1996 and 2000. Documents bequeathed. We were involved in...
You can pilot tasks with Evernote to advance research on a topic. But what other management tools can you use to move actions in the desired direction? Your Evernote research base may be quite large. The challenge then is to take...
Use Todoist as a task manager to visualize and sequence activities, especially for information workers. Here is a summary of the main features when evaluating your task management tools. Why Todoist as a task manager? Days are never linear for information...
The following is a glossary of terms developed during work on quality documents and document management FR EN accéder à display, use, access acteurs workflow signatories, recipients, people, signatory Agrément Certification approbation approval arborescence tree structure avenant contract addendum Bureau d’etudes...
A company can use its information system to manage goals and performance and must determine how to manage staff performance. The objectives of vertical management Each service has its margin objectives, sometimes in conflict with each other. Sales must sell a...
Odoo is an ERP, business resource planning system. Even if supplied in several different versions, a free one and a paid one Including some paid modules, it remains a leading solution. It is relatively easy to use, not least due to...
One of the most important aspects of technical translation is translating the technical terms used. This Technical Terms Translation Database is at the heart of the technical translation process. Above is essentially the process of collecting terms for reference. There are...
Here is a summary of our old scanning, digital transfer and video editing services. Media Memory used to handle a wide range of analogue film formats to export them in the format of choice: DVD, CD or key. It was the...
The next creation is a follow-on from the management video with things I like in Todoist. Sections in Todoist Sections are a good thing. They are like the sections in Ayoa which are circles and subsets in the canvas. But now...
We did several video editing projects during the years, transferring old media to digital. Usually, these projects were one of many different types of video edits, such as compilations or reduction edits. Recording and video editing for theatre We had the...
A Reduction Video Editing is about reducing perhaps 10 hours of film to one hour or less. Watching ten hours of film is, of course, possible, but it is nice to have a shorter version that can be watched easily....
If you are unsure what is on your tapes or films, if you need them in a particular order but cannot watch them prior to transfer, digitise them and watch them first on DVD. We edit your recorded films....
Here is a list of the legal and business translation projects done to date. Most of these are translations from French to English, except the adoption ruling. Legal and Business translation is one area where I receive quite a bit of...
The canvas and workflow views in Ayoa are very helpful to visually model your tasks. You can easily swap categories and subcategories and add dependencies between tasks. Swap from the canvas views to the workflow (work breakdown structure) view: These perspectives...
Define your projects following Kepner Tregoe with Ayoa to define your project, establish a work breakdown, sequence and schedule deliverables What would be the added benefit of applying Kepner Tregoe to a project managed in Ayoa? Defining the project Am I...
My planner in Ayoa is an opportunity to play around with your tasks and to juggle what you should be doing or what you think you should be doing now. It is about focusing on the important and urgent priorities, the...
The link between mindmaps and tasks in Ayoa enables you both to break down a subject into next actions, or to build up a mind map from the nodes of a kanban grid. One of the interesting functions that I discovered,...
I finally got all my KPI onto one visual management board in Access. This is the completion of an old project where I had KPI all over the place in Excel and in Access, with a very complicated production mechanism between...
I think that the most important concept in GTD is next action. It is also the easiest, simplest of ideas to implement. If I want to achieve something, what is the next thing, the next action? Not all the actions. Not...
This is the technical translation process from receiving an initial job request to getting, managing and completing and invoicing technical translation orders. The technical translation process with Trello The idea is to describe the technical translation process itself. I have an...
To find purpose and direction in your life and your business is to know where you’re going. Managing is about knowing your intended destination. However, you may wonder whether you are heading in the hoped-for direction. To understand whether you are...
Use kanbanote to implement the Eisenhower method and focus on Evernotes which are urgent and important. Use Evernote as a library If you use Evernote to organise all your stuff, whether it be as a technical library or a list of...
Use the Trello Kanban to implement the Eisenhower method and distinguish important and urgent tasks from non-important and non-urgent tasks. This classic Eisenhower diagram helps to sort important and urgent tasks from the less important less urgent ones. The grid is...
The most important tool in your arsenal is the trusted system which embodies your project management method. I’ve looked at and used many different types of software starting with Toodledo, then Todoist, Droptask and now Trello, which is clearly the best....
Getting Things Done GTD is a fantastic framework for managing a business written and developed by David Allen. I use it selectively. I retain the bits that are of practical use to me, the parts that can be integrated into my...
Bottom-up analysis collects together recorded issues to solve together in a project as a group. Top-down analysis breaks a concept down into parts. A project starts with an idea to implement. The rest is about how to get it done, the...
The management process is a combination of using the right tools, within a process. It requires analysing new ideas, structuring action using an organised method. Tools in the Management Process I have a list of business management tools that I use...
The value of a company is the stored internal value of its information system. An internal forum for employees is a great way to enhance this value, to exchange with colleagues and help to manage issues. An internal forum can also...
Use Evernote as a document library when focusing on or researching a domain. Such an investigation requires lots of information, documents and references to sites. Evernote is useful as a business library as you can store material and links easily, but also comment...
We can describe the world as a collection of interacting systems and analyse it by observing its traits and interactions. Humans naturally observe things and understand the world without necessarily knowing its inner workings. The systemic approach views the world as...
Trello has many features including checklists, links, a description section and comments. Trello Plus reporting makes Trello into a powerful management system. Trello cards Cards are great because they are self contained. This means that all key information for a project...
The following analysis came from a project to build a transport management database for a transport association. The organisation transports people in financial difficulty, in return-to-work situations, with social problems, or mobility impaired workers on low wages. Context The organisation owns...
Its easy to have ideas. The challenge is to transform ideas into real action. What [todo] systems can help transform ideas into action. This post originally touted Ayoa as the tool to transform ideas into action....
Kanban is simple and provides a clear arrangement which is used in several management tools including Odoo, Trello, Kanbanote and Droptas From a visual point of view, kanban is reassuring since everything is visible. From a psychological point of view, this...
Mindmapping is a two-stage technique, first mind dumping, then critical analysis. Mindmapping is useful in planning an essay, in business meetings and business analysis, or just when collecting thoughts on a theme. Apply mindmapping to problem-solving, in defining projects, a presentation...
Herewith an engineering glossary of terms developed during a translation of a technical manual on dams. EN FR Abutment Piédroit Accessways Route D’Accès Aggregates Agrégats Back-Fill Remblais Baffles Cuillères Bolt Boulon Boring Forages Cast Concrete Béton Coffré Cladding Coffrages Compacted Rolled...
Document both structured backbone systems and informal information systems to guarantee operations against the turnover of information holders. Information systems in the broader sense include the informal verbal systems, the coffee machine and water-cooler discussions. People normally think of the internal...
Visual models are often underestimated and underused. Mindmapping and visual modelling are powerful techniques for communication Mindmapping is useful to start an activity diagram, a use case, the description of a system and provide a basis to formalise a model in...
The water distribution system is an example of a system described in UML and that a system can be described by its observed properties. The diagram below is a UML use case model of a modern urban distribution system and depicts...
This UML sequence diagram maps the observed financial relationships between patients, doctors, pharmacies, social security and medical insurance professionals in the delivery of patient care in France. Patients visit doctors who administer care and advice and prescribe medication or further treatment....
This is a UML model of the relationships between potential customers and service providers. The idea is to register both requirements and services provided. The service site model is aimed at B2B and B2C relationships and in theory could be applied...
Software is vital to produce management data, invoices and for tax authorities. We assist with requirements analysis for the most appropriate configuration. From 1992 to 2004 we were involved in IT information systems projects in large companies, with significant budgets. Since...
Taking notes with a mindmap helps to focus on the subject and related subjects rather than the time sequence of the meeting I read about the concept of mind-mapping many years ago and have never looked back; I use mind-mapping now...
The Eisenhower matrix helps reduce the stress of decision-making by placing tasks in a grid arranged by importance and urgency. I find it more appropriate to talk about managing priorities that managing time and the Eisenhower matrix helps to determine tasks,...
Kepner Tregoe Decision Analysis as developed by is a method to evaluate and score available options in an objective manner. The appropriate decision is then the one with the highest score. Clarify the Purpose State the decision What decision do we need to...
Changes to systems are driven by changing conditions, requiring system documentation to be maintained in line with strategy. But being able to adapt systems to the changing environment is also about documenting management experience. The Specification Process System changes start with...
The Compuprod Case Study determines the main functions within a company, the interfaces between functions and people, and the requirements for communication. Original work used in teaching information systems theory. The company context The company is a large Japanese computer producer...
