Tim Parker's report on the webinar, Saturday 21st September 2024, with Teresa Sousa.
Teresa offered NTWN and ITI members some insight into the world of SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, based on her own experience and training courses she has developed.
The morning session focused on the basics of SEO, namely what it is and how it works.We looked at some key terms and concepts, as well
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Generative AI Social Saturday
Main Presenter: Angela Sigee – Panellists: Louise Killeen, Silke Lührmann, Silvia Terribile, Mike Farrell – Held at The House of Books and Friends, King Street, Manchester, from 1.00 to 4.00-4.30pm, on 9th March 2024 – Report written by: Nicole van den Wittenboer ____
For our NWTN Social Saturday event on Generative AI, our Events Team Leader Kate Lo and Chair Laurence Bisot welcomed us back to
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Member Monday presents: Nick Hubble
Nick Hubble (he/him)
Where do you live/work?
I live in Manchester and work in the city centre – I have made use of various co-working opportunities in the city for a good ten years and currently work from a Grade-2 listed loft in an old mill in Ancoats.
Are you mainly a translator or interpreter or both? What languages do you work with?
I translate exclusively from German to
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Festive Social 2023
Having recently returned to the NWTN fold after a few years in the professional-networking wilderness, I couldn’t think of a better occasion to connect with the group than the annual Festive Social. On registering my interest with event organiser Kate in advance, I was reminded of the two conditions of attendance: wear something festive and bake something for the buffet.
Thus, clad in my faithful
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Member Monday presents: Rachel Jones
Rachel Jones
Where do you live/work?
I live and work in Liverpool. I grew up on the Wirral, but after six cities and 12 houses in ten years, it was time to return and put down some roots!
Are you a translator or interpreter or both? Which languages do you work with?
I’m an audiovisual translator, working from French and German into English, but I also do text translations.
What are your
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Stronger Together: Empowerment through Collaboration, Revision, Accountability & Mentoring
By Laurence Auffret
FACT OF OUR LIVES: we work hard at building a social media presence to buy ourselves an existence in ‘this big world’ and GUESS WHAT? There is nothing we love better than a face-2-face natter-do, a mug-to-mug mingle, well a proper chit-chat rendezvous!!
For this very reason, on Saturday 18 November 2023, Laurence Bisot and the NWTN team gathered their
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Member Monday presents: Marta Cisa
Marta Cisa
Where do you live/work?
I live and work in Liverpool, Merseyside.
Are you a translator or interpreter or both? Which languages do you work with?
I am mainly a translator from English and French into Spanish and Catalan, but I am also a DPSI-qualified interpreter.
What are your specialist fields?
Literary translation, linguistic services for businesses in the cosmetics,
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Rose Jenkinson 1981-2023
Written by Roz Howarth -
Rose Jenkinson (née Oakes) sadly passed away in August 2023, following a two-year battle with bowel cancer. She is survived by her husband, Russ, and her two young daughters Iris and Amy.
I first met Rose in Chester at a Translators’ Powwow event organised by Michaela (Pschierer-Barnfather) at around the time of International Translation Day in 2008. The three of us
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Summer Walk 2023
This year’s NWTN summer walk set off from the village of Arnside in Cumbria, a former fishing port on the estuary where the River Kent enters Morecambe Bay.
A generously sized group of intrepid translators gathered at the glamourous meeting point of the public conveniences on the front ready to set out on a circular walk around the headland. Everyone was in high spirits despite the looming
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NTWN Tour of RHS Garden Bridgewater
When my regional ITI network, the North West Translators' Network (NWTN), advertised a trip to the RHS Garden Bridgewater I signed up immediately. I had seen spectacular aerial pictures of the enormous walled garden on TV when the garden first opened a couple of years ago, so the opportunity to join a private group tour was too good to miss.
Named after the Bridgewater Canal, which runs past
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