Ever eager to do their bit for charity, especially if it can be combined with a short run (five kilometres in this case), Ana and Beatriz ran with 12,000 others around the course in Hyde Park in London and managed a very respectable time of 35 minutes. “It was a bit of a stalled start for [...]

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As part of our ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management accreditation we constantly monitor our customer service levels by asking all our clients to complete a very short questionnaire at the end of every project we deliver. On each one we ask them to score out of 10 (10 being excellent, 0 poor) on these questions: How [...]

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Legal transcription is one of those things the majority of people don’t even think about. As part of pretty much any legal proceedings transcription is used to ensure that every utterance is written down and attributed to the right person. Getting this right can mean the difference between a jail sentence or an acquittal so [...]

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Transcription is one of those things most companies don’t think about. It’s not seen as a core business function, and if you don’t know the advantages, working out why it would be useful is impossible. This post should give you more ideas about how transcription services can add really value to your organisation. 1. Transcribing [...]

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Things are going really well for us, so much so that we’ve expanded our operations in Leeds and opened a new office in the Leeds Innovation Centre, near the University. Initially this office will be the hub of our marketing and sales operations, with an initial staff of five and further expansion expected within the [...]

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Toeing the Line Between Niche-Market and Global Vendors In this Guest Blog Emily Stewart, Marketing Lead at Win & Winnow Communications in Argentina, discusses the options The global character of the translation industry is eminent. Populated by multilingual individuals who have dedicated their professional lives to linguistic communication, it is inherently so. And with the [...]

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Expanding the Leeds office

by Richard on June 28, 2010

Up to now, I’ve been the only person in the Leeds office. As the Director of Marketing it’s not essential that I work from the London office. So I’ve kept in touch with the rest of the team using email, phone, messenger and the odd visit to the smoke via train. Working this way is [...]

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The iPhone and iPad are revolutionising mobile computing with more and more apps being made available everyday. I got my first (if short) play with an iPad the other day and I must say it is a beautiful piece of technology, though I am a huge Apple fan. The interface, just like on the iPhone [...]

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Getting a job as a graduate designer can be tough. In this Guest Blog Darren Scotland Founder and Director of Character Creative shares a few tips. It’s that time of year again, the sun’s beginning to shine, the sound of ice cream vans is filling the streets and I’ve started getting into planting herbs again! [...]

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Language on the terraces is sometimes difficult enough to work out when you move around the Premier League from West Ham to Wigan the songs and abuse all have a very regional bent. We’re all aware of the songs from the terraces and clichés from the English pundits, but what about our continental friends? Do [...]

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