What was to be a “free flowing chat” between 10-15 people was not possible with 51 people attending. So please excuse me if I was sometime very directive :-)
Special thanks to Louis Huo, ProZ member, Wendy and Derek, from N.E Courtyard Hotel, who helped me a lot with the Powwow organization.
Beijing Powwow April 19th 3-6 pm
Networking, tips etc…
1th part:
General discussion about the following topics:
How to advertise oneself?
How to develop working relationships with companies and freelance agencies?
Rates and quality: in general and in China.
Are translations' agencies useful or not?
We were lucky enough to have attendees from all sides of the language business: starting and established translators, interpreters, language students and translation agencies, so that the exchange of ideas and experiences were quite interesting.
Break
2d part:
Each attendee introduced him/herself: Name, language pairs, specialization.
Break
3d part:
Free networking.
Participants showed interest for a new meeting in a couple of months.
Thanks for organizing the event, Dominique! Really great to see so many colleagues in real life and the wonderful smiles radiating from the faces of our fellow translators and interpreters! Looking forward to next gathering!
Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you, Dominique, for organizing this powwow! It was great to see the faces behind the names. I definitely picked up some interesting ideas too. Unfortunately, I did not get to talk to everyone, so I really hope we can get together again soon. Did anyone take any pictures? I had brought my camera but then totally forgot about it. It would be great to get copies of the pictures!
Hope to see you all soon!
Bea
Apr 21, 2008Aaron Gilkison:
It was a good meeting! Thanks Dominique！
last time I said I was supposed to have a surgery. it is actually cancelled temporarilly. but I still get a urgent task to assistant an expo manegement or something this afternoon(still waiting for the detailed order). so surely I will go to this powwow if I don't have to go to the expo, and please excuse me if I have to. as for the fee, if my absence bring any budget shortage. i think you can give me an account to sent my due charge even though i may not be able to attend. thanks for you arrangement of this event
My calssmate just called me that he's come to Beijing from Shanghai. I feel sorry I can not attend the meeting. Wish u a good time, and hope have another chance.
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