Proford Carnival

Friday, 20/02/15: Upcoming event for language service experts with an excellent opportunity for networking: Proford Carnival.

Interpreter’s Blog: What Makes the Difference?

Let’s start with an example: Interesting and/or entertaining content is vital to all kinds of blogs, otherwise nobody wouldread them. The Interpreter’s Blog, however, would like to convey useful information as well: concrete and palpable information to all the players of the language service providing industry, like what you need to do for conference interpreting to be really smooth and professional. At the end of this article you’ll find a checklist for organisers to help your work.

The Interpreter's Blog Starts

After spending quite some time with preparations, it’s time for me to start the Interpreter’s Blog which will be the first professional blog to highlight useful, interesting and entertaining information in connection with interpreting. However, this leads to the first question: Will the Interpreter's Blog really be the blog the industry has been waiting for? There are already a bunch of blogs dealing with that topic… This is true, of course, but whenever I come across a site dealing with interpreting, I almost always have the feeling that there is something missing. These sites are full of reports and accounts in first person singular and barely contain anyuseful content. the Interpreter’s Blog wants to be different in this regard. How this is going to work out, I will highlight that in the next post.