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LucindaBrooks

  1. Getting ready for today's webinar on Getting the most out of your Internet Searches #xl8 @ecpdwebinars.
  2. Milton Keynes co. seeks f/t in-house technical translator (Ger-Eng) with substantial experience. Exc. bens. welliott@schueco.com. Pls RT
  3. RT @ecpdwebinars: Final day to book your place on "Internet Searching" webinar with Julian Holliday. 29 May 11:30 just £20....
  4. Very short (3 Qs) survey on my blog today. .I'd love you to respond - and RT ow.ly/b96xL
  5. RT @bbcclick: Facebook troubles & non-stick sauce bottles in this week's tech news news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme… #BBCClick
  6. Milton Keynes co. seeks f/t in-house tech. translator (DE-EN) with substantial experience. Exc. bens. email welliott@schueco.com. pls RT
  7. You may have seen this already from MOJ. I missed it due to being away. ow.ly/b8ZBW #MOJALS #int9
  8. Sussex Group of CIoL is meeting for lunch in Haywards Heath on 22 June. Non-members welcome. Cost £20 for lunch. Contact @LucindaBrooks
  9. @nickrosenthal But they will probably only monitor whether they turn up - not the quality of the interpreting provided
  10. RT @nickrosenthal: Telegraph reports that MOJ to "monitor" ALS after 1 in 10 court interpreters don't turn up: tgr.ph/LlSjKl
  11. Today I'm working on organising our language workshop webinars in November. I'll tell you when they are on the website. #xl8 @eCPDWebinars
  12. RT @itiuk: ITI Webinar: Translating the Spoken Word 11:00 - June 19th, 2012 - Further info on ITI website - Events
  13. You may have noticed I was on holiday in May. Here are some photos of San Francisco, Alaska, Vancouver flic.kr/s/aHsjzz4LsA
  14. RT @ecpdwebinars: [ecpd event reminder] Getting the most from translation searches on the web - eepurl.com/j0DmT
  15. RT @ecpdwebinars: Pleased to say that server issue on our website has been resolved and we are live. Some emails may have been lost though.
  16. Lesson learned today: In multi-file job xl8ed in CAT tool, always do one file first and test the export function before proceeding.further.
  17. I wish MQ would remind not to import V97 Excel files - they won't export. Good job only 9 files. Imagine if hundreds! Tip. Must be xlsx
  18. Why I like my direct client. Job sent Apr 30 while on hols. On return 21 May I enquire "do you still want me to do it? Answer: "yes please".
  19. RT @ecpdwebinars: Interaction with authors, illustrators and the readers is hugely important to Sarah Ardizonne. Speaking now at our webinar
  20. RT @ecpdwebinars: Ask yourself "how can I be useful?" rather than imposing personal ideas. Sarah Ardizonne on children's literature