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Salary and Rate Reporting for Q3 2009 Begins July 1
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Reporting takes place at the start of each fiscal quarter.
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Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects
Smashing Magazine posted a great article entitled "Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects" which is relevant to anyone doing freelance work.
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5th Annual Tech Writers Picnic
June 7 2009 elephant (Svi Ben-Elya) under Headlines | Comments (0)(edited 1 day, 12 hours ago)
Tags:Mark your calendars. This year's picnic will be July 10 at the the Kibbutz Hazorea swimming pool. The picnic is open to all technical writers, marcom writers, copy editors and members of similar professions. You do not need to be a member to come. It is always great fun for the whole family and fun to meet your colleague's families. There is a great swimming pool for kids and infants, and an even better one for the adults. There will be an entrance fee of 20 NIS per person charged by the Kibbutz. This fee covers entrance to the area and will be charged regardless of whether you use the pool. Please fill in the preregistration form below. It will help us plan and help Mike Lee get us a really low rate again this year. Click here for directions...
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Technical Writer/Marcom Writer Rates
The results of the recent Salary Survey (18 pages) and Freelance Rate Survey (10 pages) are ready.
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35 Online Tools That Make Your Freelance Career Easier
FreelanceFolder.com posted 35 Online Tools That Make Your Freelance Career Easier. Some highlights from the article:
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Business News that may help you find a job
Knowledge is power when looking for work, especially in a tight job market. So knowing the following may just point you toward a local company that needs your services (more details inside).
The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta Georgia recently announced that three companies, Baran Telecom (Beit Dagan), Precision Components International (Nahariya), and Verint Systems (Tel-Aviv), are the finalists for their prestigious "Israeli Company of the Year" award. They also announced the finalists for their "Deal of the Year" award are: Starling (Yokneam) for their deal with EMS, Jacada (Herzelia) for their deal with Nationwide Insurance , and NICE Systems (Ra'anana) for their deal with Southern Company.
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Giving your Computer the Boot
Giving your Computer the Boot
By this, I don't mean kicking your computer when it freezes or fails to respond! Booting is the initial process that happens when you turn on or power on your computer. The term was coined by comparing the start of a computer with getting dressed.
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7th Annual ITA Conference: Event of the Year
February 28 2009 Mark L. Levinson under Event Summaries
Tags:- Achamelsh Tasema
- Alona Frankel
- computer-aided translation
- creative writing
- crowdsourcing
- Daniel Goldschmidt
- Doron Greenshpan
- Dr. Gadi Taub
- education
- Eitan Sarig
- Eliezer Nowodworski
- Erga Heller
- Eshkol Nevo
- event
- event summary
- Getty Images
- Iris Malako
- ita
- Jonathan Golan
- Josephine Bacon
- Leon Pinsker
- Leszek Kwiatkowski
- LingoTip
- medical translation
- Miryam Blum
- nondisclosure agreements
- Professional insurance
- Shai Sendik
- statistical machine translation
- tax deductions
- Trados
- translation
- translation software
- Tzviya Levin
- Yiftach Shilony
The Israel Translators Association (ITA, www.ita.org.il) held a well-timed seventh annual conference, during the lull between this year’s two February rainstorms. The conference’s opening, on the evening of the 23rd, was preceded by optional, separately charged workshops: “The Internet as a Driver for Your Business,” “Advanced Localization,” “Words in Context” (about the editing of translations), and “Good Time Management.”
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Quiet in the South
Sunday 18th January, a group of soldiers and an electrician stopped by to do maintenance work on the local bomb shelter. It was very much appreciated as there was no lighting or plumbing. They gave it a much needed coat of paint, repaired the electricals and fitted lamps.
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Welcome Home?!?
My welcoming when approaching Ashqelon railway station last Sunday night was the announcement of the colour red and for everybody to lie flat on the train floor. It seems as though the sounds of rockets exploding have become part of our lives here. I pray daily for our soldiers who are confronted by death traps for the safety of the nation.
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Mouse Euthanasia with Camtasia
Hi, you keyboard whiz readers! I needed to make a change in this month's featured application at the last minute. Because of some previous damage to my computer, the Captivate download did not work properly. No matter! Camtasia is an excellent tool that can do a lot of what Captivate does for less money. Unfortunately, Camtasia is no longer freeware, but you can download a 30-day trial version, as I did.
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Eye Spy
November 3 2008 David Siegel under Broken Bell Education | Comments (3)(edited 4 months, 2 weeks ago)
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"You know your teacher is possessed by Beelzebub when his or her head rotates 360 degrees at the blackboard. But is this what it takes to effectively keep watch over a classroom while a teacher unveils a frontal lesson? All adults who work with kids instinctively understand that they love to deny their mischievous behavior when the teacher isn't looking. It's one of the hallmarks of adolescent classroom acuity. Lest you grow eyes in the back of your head, educators are in a significantly vulnerable position. So how does one fight back?
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It’s a column, It’s a blog, It’s Moving to Chelm: Is this a blog or not?
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התשתית החוקית, האתית והמעשית
תיאור של תהליך הגישור בפרק זה מתייחס לגישור באופן כללי כשיטה ליישוב סכסוכים בתחומים רבים – סכסוכים עסקיים ומסחריים, סכסוכים בצרכנות, בין שכנים, בין קרובי משפחה ועוד.
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All About Indexing #8: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 2: Marketing
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Creating Your Home Court Advantage
You may root for your home team, but how often do you root for yourself? How to develop self-talk that is positive and genuine.
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Guide for the Perplexed: Where the How-To’s Are, and Office 2007 Commands
June 16 2008 Jonathan Plutchok under Jonathan's Tool Bar & Grill(edited 3 months, 3 weeks ago)
Tags:Drop in for a roundup of helpful Web sites that offer instructional content in textual form, news about a Microsoft Office add-in that helps you adapt to Office 2007, and all about run-time environments in Linux.
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Thanks for Reading
With the column of June 1, “The Final Why,” The Why of Style has concluded a two-year fortnighly run. Any future columns will be occasional. My e-mail address remains open for questions and comments: . Thanks for reading, and particular thanks to those who wrote in from time to time. — Mark L. Levinson
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Play Music and Get a Date at the Tool Bar & Grill
Wherein Jonathan recommends a great simple media player and a Web site that can get you out of trouble, and Mark reviews Linux calendar utilities.
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The Final Why
“When we didn’t have a manual yet, when we didn’t know what to name the commands on our menus, when we needed our business cards spelled right, we couldn’t have done without you,” the boss said. “But now the product is in release, and I don’t see the ROI from fine-polishing the error messages.”
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What the Romans Knew
Memory improvement techniques are based on finding memory pegs, on which to hang the things one wants to remember. The principle of memory pegs is simple...
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What is PDC all about?
TheP eopleD evelopmentC olumns help you maximize your chances for success. These columns are currently broken into 2 groups that appear 3 times per month.
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Loops
Excerpted from my book FrameScript for Newbies Copyright [7/17/2007] by Paul Schnall
Loops are a way of moving through a book or document and running lines of code on each object of a particular type. For example, looping through every paragraph (paragraph being the object) in a document and searching for a specific word or text is easily done using this construct.
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Create Screencasts and Quick Video Captures with Jing (Totally Free)
February 20 2008 Tom Johnson under World of Podcasting | Comments (1)(edited 4 months, 1 week ago)
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The First Rain of Poetry
The first rain of the season reminds us that even if we do live in the Middle East, we still succumb to the forces of Mother Nature and her tokens. Yet, the weather wasn’t the only thing on my mind last Sunday.
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What Does a Shoe Store Have in Common with a Technical Writer?
Normally not much, but there is one shoe store in Florida that does. Technical writing is a niche business, and in Israel many of the more successful technical writers have created a niche-within a niche.
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God and the Technical Writer
And in the beginning there was nothing. And then one day a huge bang was heard that echoed round the universe and when the smoke had cleared, all that could be seen was a giant Product Manager and a petite Technical Writer
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