I’m delighted to announce that I will running another Selling Translations workshop with Common Sense Advisory in Atlanta, GA, USA May 7-8 2015. The course, exercises and reference materials were developed from the ground up exclusively for the language services industry. Our sales training is based on Common Sense Advisory industry research and delivered by […]
What I do
People often ask me what I do for a living. The answer is usually not very straightforward or interesting. The questioner often starts to lose interest quite rapidly. This animation explains what I do more succinctly and in a far more interesting manner. Hhmm … maybe it’s the backing track?
Teaser for Translation Sales Workshops at TFR Sochi 2013
My fourth year at Translation Forum Russia! I’m very grateful to the organisers who have invited me again … спасибо огромное! I’m looking forward to going to Sochi where I shall be speaking and running pre-conference workshops for translators and translation companies. I hope you enjoy this animated teaser for TFR Sochi 2013 …
Selling Translations® and CSA Sales Workshop How to Become the Ultimate Salesperson Announced
“How to Become the Ultimate Salesperson” Sales Workshop Chicago, October 24-25, 2013 Hello All! I’m excited to announce that I’ll be running another workshop with CSA in Chicago in October. Hélène Pielmeier, CSA Director of LSP services, will co-present with Don DePalma and Rebecca Ray joining us by video-link. The workshop is designed specifically for […]
Setting Arabic WordPress locale
These are the steps I went through with the help of Ben Huson to: 1) Set the locale of my Arabic site on my English language Multisite 2) Install the Arabic languages files on my English WordPress Multisite 3) ‘Activate’ the rtl style sheet for the front end of the Arabic website Set the locale […]
Going Global with WordPress presentation WCUK 2013
I was delighted to deliver a presentation WCUK 2013 Going Global with WordPress 20130708 today during WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013 at Lancaster University. I wanted the presentation to facilitate discussion which it did despite a large audience. They were very kind to me 😉 and from feedback during and afterwards I learnt a lot more about making […]
Setting WordPress Multisite Locale
I’m running an English install of WordPress multisite with a few sites in languages other than English. I was dismayed see that multisite appeared to set the locale to en_US (English for the United States) for these non-English sites. Mike Little helped me to implement the following code to fix this: <?php add_filter(‘locale’,’sitename_locale’); function sitename_locale($locale){ […]
Selling Translations® & memoQ Weekend Workshops, 6th &7th Oct 2012 Lærdansk Odense Denmark
I’ll be running a joint workshop weekend with long time friend and ex-Trados colleague Lone Beheshty. The workshop will take place at the Lærdansk centre in Odense (Hans Christian Andersen’s birth place!). I’ll be delivering a Selling Translations® Sales & Marketing workshop with a focus on making translation technology investments a competitive advantage rather than just another cost. Lone will cover memoQ […]
Joint ITI East and West Midlands Group 2012 Summer Walk at Calke Abbey
The weather held out for another excellent ITI summer group walk. This time held jointly with the East and West Midlands ITI regional groups at Calke Abbey on Saturday 21 July 2012. You can see the rest of the pictures or a slide show on my Flickr account. Calke Abbey is a National Trust property near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is at the heart […]
‘Interconnect IT’ Lego Twitter-Skittle dispenser WordCamp UK 2012
Interconnect IT built an automatic Twitter-Lego-Skittle dispenser at WordCamp UK 2012, which was activated by tweeting a hash tag. Great for geeks who are more interested in the Twitter integration that the Skittles, as you can see by the number uneaten Skittles lying in the collection tray!