translation, interpreting, productivity Josh Goldsmith translation, interpreting, productivity Josh Goldsmith

Make Invoicing and Project Management A Breeze with LSP.expert

Everyone loves getting paid.

But…invoicing and tracking expenses can be a drag!

While a range of invoicing tools like FreshBooks or Xero are available on the market, they’re not ideal for language professionals. Want to bill by the word, charge different rates based on language or subject, and easily track rates, income and expenses for each client – all from a single program?

Enter LSP.expert, a web-based tool designed by and for translators to seamlessly manage projects, quotes, invoices and more!

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translation, interpreting, productivity, terminology Josh Goldsmith translation, interpreting, productivity, terminology Josh Goldsmith

How to digitize your paper glossaries

Do you have tons of paper notes and glossaries floating around after your interpreting assignments?

Perhaps you've jotted down key terms you want to remember, or a colleague has given you a photocopy of their precious word list.

Instead of keeping those paper glossaries in a drawer somewhere or throwing them out, wouldn't it be great to hang on to all that valuable knowledge?

In this blog post, I’ll share tips to help you make the most of your paper glossaries. 🤩

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Tech-savvy tools to tame your email monster

Email can be the bane of our existence. Like there’s a monster in your inbox that keeps you from getting actual work done!

I designed the Tame your email monster challenge for the techforword insiders community to help fellow professionals like you tackle the overwhelm and develop strategies and habits for efficient email management.

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interpreting, productivity, tablets, hardware Josh Goldsmith interpreting, productivity, tablets, hardware Josh Goldsmith

Why we love tablets for interpreting

We've been huge proponents of tablets for interpreting for over a decade. And when the first tablets came out, we wondered how this new technology could be used for interpreting -- we're curious about everything, like all interpreters!

So we started poking around and discovered countless reasons why tablets make great interpreting companions.

In this article, we share some of our favorite ways to use tablets for preparation, consecutive interpreting and in the booth.

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Turn your most used websites into apps

There’s an app for pretty much everything, or so they say. And it’s true that smartphones and tablets have brought us millions and millions of apps to solve nearly every problem under the sun.

But surely you use a handful of sites that don’t have an app or simply work better online. How do you make sure your go-to websites don’t get lost among all those browser tabs? How do you get them to behave more like real apps? SSBs to the rescue!

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