![]() She is the president of UNIVERSITAS Austria Interpreters' and Translators' Association and is an accredited freelance conference interpreter for the institutions of the European Union, where she works in the German booth. Dagmar has a graduate degree in French, an undergraduate translation degree and a graduate degree in French and Spanish conference interpreting from the University of Vienna. She holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ![]() The "Entrepreneurial Linguist" book has sold more than 5,000 copies and is available on Judy pens the monthly "Entrepreneurial Linguist" column for the American Translators Association's Chronicle and also serves as a spokesperson for the ATA. We frequently share what we know with fellow linguists via our "The Entrepreneurial Linguist" workshop. In this blog, we dispense (useful) tips and tricks on how to run a translation and interpreting business. We were born in Austria, grew up in a bilingual household in Mexico City, and run our translation, interpreting and copywriting business, Twin Translations, from Vegas and Vienna (Austria). We (Judy and Dagmar Jenner) are a pair of identical translating and interpreting twins working in Spanish, German, English, and French (Dagmar only). ![]() We’d love to hear what you use and what your experiences have been with backing up your data. However, our IT guru recommends using two external hard drives (one for daily backups and one for backups in larger intervals) because it’s ultimately the cheaper option. Tim Borman has compiled a list (sorry, it’s in German) and he actually tested a few of them. In fact, there are many companies out there offering these services. Just imagine: there might be a fire in the apartment or a burglary – you never know.Īnother option is using Online Backup Services which run between EUR 5 and EUR 50 per month for 10 GB (which is approximately the amount of data we back up). Since the computer was up and running, no data was lost, but hey, you never know! If push comes to shove, we’d much rather have a 3-week-old version of our data than none at all (addresses! translation memories! termbases! e-mails! accounting!). What might seem like an unnecessary precaution came in really handy the other day because the external hard drive we use for daily backups fell to the floor and died (RIP, dear hard-working hard drive). It addition to that, Tom, our web guru, does another backup in larger intervals (in Dagy’s case, every 3 weeks) using another external hard drive, which he keeps at his downtown office. For the daily backup, we use one of the smaller hard drives in combination with the free backup tool EzBackitup. 500 GB 3.5’’ external hard drives (the large ones with power supply) cost approximately EUR 60 and 320 GB/2.5’’ (the small ones without power supply) cost around EUR 80. For that purpose, we use an external hard drive. We do daily backups of our business data at 11:00 p.m. So we better take really good care of it. Other than the information in our heads, our data is the most valuable asset we have. Still, one can never emphasize enough how important data security is in our business. Yes, we know: you’ve probably heard this a gazillion times. Spain's Prime Minister: It Starts with an "F". ![]() German-English Airport/Aviation Glossary.Fraud Alert: Wedding Interpretation Scam.Translation and Interpretation: Economic Outlook.American Translators Association Get-Together: Vegas.
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