November 8th, 2012
I spent a week last October in Oxford - for presenting a paper and also for just having a long walk [Read More...]
September 27th, 2012
Professor Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, a scholar and gentleman, and former Vice Chancellor of the Univer[Read More...]
September 20th, 2012
Snapshot of Trainings in Sept/Oct 2012 Course Title Summary Teacher and Profile Date [Read More...]
September 19th, 2012
Technology sometimes behaves like cataract - it prohibits natural function. However, treating catara[Read More...]
September 11th, 2012
First barrier in mind we create while we think of learning a foreign language is the very word 'fore[Read More...]
I started to go to an office for morning to evening work since I was 21 years old -in 1996. It meant[Read More...]
It is true that a freelancer has some kind of feast and famine cycle. It is part of the job and cann[Read More...]
September 9th, 2012
Language, any language of past, present and future is used by poets, wordsmiths, specialist and lay [Read More...]
I have been running an agency – Wordsmith Communication for last seven years or so and the hardest [Read More...]
Your first client is the most important client for your whole career. No client ever will have so mu[Read More...]
September 5th, 2012
A Freelance Translator's business success depends quite critically on understanding business models.[Read More...]
For last few weeks, I have been trying to solve a problem : How to monetize visitors in our Freelanc[Read More...]
August 20th, 2012
I have been kind of a unrequited lover if publishing a book of one's own can be matter of love for a[Read More...]
August 16th, 2012
I need your help in solving the following mysteries. Here are they : 1. In TC and proz (surely in[Read More...]
We are frequently asked to proof / check / assess quality of translation in some 5-6 languages. The [Read More...]
August 15th, 2012
An electronics or communication engineer learns a cardinal rule : as noise (random thermal motion of[Read More...]
August 7th, 2012
Many freelancers ask me as how they should price their services. Pricing is an art and communicating[Read More...]
If you are interested to be a successful project manager in translation industry, here are 5 fundame[Read More...]
There is a perception (and not very uncommon) that freelancers are those who are unemployed incomp[Read More...]
had a post written entitled 5 fundamental lessons for freelance translators and sent this to a Proje[Read More...]
Every client prefers his project to be done within deadline and of best quality. This is a wishful t[Read More...]
While I got a mobile phone, I was an employee. It did not remain long for me to see that the facilit[Read More...]
Early this month, I conducted a webinar for first time where I advised freelancer translators as how[Read More...]
I met an engineering student recently – a barely twenty plus young man – one of half a million India[Read More...]
n my early youth, many thought that I would become a scholar. In India, a scholar needs to be a prof[Read More...]
A Freelancer survives. A Manager manages. In a relatively static world of buisness, a Manager is [Read More...]
Seth Godin (www.sethgodin.com) has announced in his last blog that we are under 2 recessions now. O[Read More...]
1. All the seminal and enduring works of Civilization are done either by formal freelancers or those[Read More...]
Every Freelancer, as a freeman needs to be prepared for Future – financially as well as non-financia[Read More...]
Marketing of any service cannot ignore the social networking noise or sonetoise. The origin of this[Read More...]
Before MBA-business was highly profitable, people started business naturally. They started and learn[Read More...]
In 2006, when I became a Freelancer cum CEO (all Freelancers are CEOs by default – they are too mode[Read More...]
1. Public Sector Fund Cut : Many developed countries are cutting public funding in providing ‘multi-[Read More...]
Here they are (Disclaimer : Reason has reasons to have got clouded by self-love) De-E[Read More...]
This is my favourite story while I speak among corporate managers planning to start their own ventur[Read More...]
Many corporate managers / CEOs, having sometime read Shakespeare sometime, find their later life as [Read More...]
All our actions are not work. Sometimes we ‘act’ for a long time but that’s not work. For example, w[Read More...]
There are five kinds of freelancers and I would like to classify them depending on their attitude o[Read More...]
Most of the time, while I train freelance translators, I am being asked as how one can be a vendor o[Read More...]
Many linguists confirm a deadline without taking into account 3 deadly enemies. Worse : they are mor[Read More...]
The fear of marketing is another name of seeking time to prepare. Most of the time, seeking time to [Read More...]
The Linux development / open-source model first gave the idea and implementation of crowdsourcing. T[Read More...]
How many user manual have you read to operate your new device ? You might have read a blog or google[Read More...]
Translation Quality is defined by me, writing from my doomed keyboard : Ego-signature for some ideal[Read More...]
I checked myself not to write translation industry during recession. Translation as a business pu[Read More...]
More than a decade and half back, I used to work in an international telephone switch. As routine ch[Read More...]
here is a para-rational feeling in us that can be phrased like this : ” I would do dirt-digging for [Read More...]
On 12th August, the webinar entitled How does a LSP work at proz.com has been a great experience. I[Read More...]
I am tempted to ask a question : Why different translation tools are available today ? There are two[Read More...]
A true translator may need training on all things in the universe but not on translation per se. A t[Read More...]
For a freelancer and for any professional, there are important works and significant works. Sending[Read More...]
Pension, 401K, Provident Fund, Savings to Retire, Social Security – all these were attempts by vario[Read More...]
Recently, we had sought freelance translators for a large En > Spanish project in few leading fre[Read More...]
An employee is forced to take a training – sometimes decided by the sole reason for the CEO being a [Read More...]
Wordsmith’s definition of business 1. A process designed to earn a livelihood 2. A process des[Read More...]
We recently had a startup : www.wordsmithuniversity.com – a learning platform which we believe is th[Read More...]
xcept a few social networking sites, most (and the most popular (or populated) ones) have minimum de[Read More...]
Envy : Finding a clasmate / peer working in a large corporation having much better creature comfort [Read More...]
We did a dictionary project for a client and we requested them to send the final printed dictionary [Read More...]
Businesses started, grew and failed long before social media came. Hence, we may safely conclude tha[Read More...]
In course of my career as a freelancer, I have had reasons communicate regarding projects and here [Read More...]
think a lot about what is ‘business growth’ for a freelancer / agency owner / SME owner. My friend M[Read More...]
A Freelancer in most happy circumstances can be a Life-Designer. Li-Designer or Li-Der is a person w[Read More...]
There is a fine line between challenge and risk although both terms are used without this distinctio[Read More...]
I come across excellent freelancers with very high focus on their work but this is causing side-blin[Read More...]
Anything the world has got an impersonal and personal comonent and they cannot be separated. Lets ta[Read More...]
Almost eight years to the day, I left my job as a corporate employee and became a freelancer. Re[Read More...]
1.Unless and until you know many languages, you cannot become a successful freelance translator &[Read More...]
One of the most-subtle aspects of radiographing a business is business model. This post, little long[Read More...]
As per natural propensity and activities, there are four classes of freelancers : Thinkers : This[Read More...]
Money is an instrument, as per time and circumstances to acquire necessary resources to satisfy our [Read More...]
We receive a lot of bids when we advertise a job (not very frequently) in portals like TC or proz. M[Read More...]
On Mayday, I had a long conversation with a very talented, successful and balanced freelancer. His o[Read More...]
The first rating system was invented when people discovered ‘examination’. Examinations at all le[Read More...]
Since November 2011, we are trying to build an online University with a narrow focus on the sunjects[Read More...]
I have been entrusted with the responsibility of teaching English to my 7 year old son. I was search[Read More...]
Who is London’s greatest freelancer ? For me, it can be only one person who could say – ‘…I am th[Read More...]
If I were the Director of a Business School, I would make this question mandatory for all professors[Read More...]
The President Vivaswan was first told by his superior : You are not this body. No living entity is a[Read More...]
‘Every home-loan-lender cannot just refrain using the term ‘dream home’. We know why having a home i[Read More...]
Vedic Literature, especially the Upanishads and the Bhagawad-Gita starts with the explicit and impli[Read More...]
Except a microscopic minority, [Read More...]
Thanks to grave-diggers for gold and thanks to Discovery and National Geographic Channel for TRP, an[Read More...]
The word 'Upanishad' means - to sit closely. With who? A teacher. Who ? : sincere students. Where [Read More...]
When I went to Benares / Kashi for the first time, the ancient city seemed to me a 'city of death'. [Read More...]
Here are 5 questions all universities either avoid or behave as if they don't exist. Instead, they g[Read More...]
The mass-speculatory market is called a share market. An individual investor can never have all the [Read More...]
Contemporary Biology very diplomatically avoids the question: Where does Life come from?Its main bus[Read More...]
5000 years back or so, the civilization of that time visualized University in a form we cannot even [Read More...]
The word 'Upanishad' means - to sit closely. With whom : A teacher. Who : sincere students. Where :[Read More...]
I will define, rejecting all previous definitions (including those from 'management thinkers' first)[Read More...]
x certain parameter of our body (there are enough choices). Let us call this parameter Faltuf[Read More...]
Every University – ancient, modern, online and off-line have got a place of lecture – a hall, a hut,[Read More...]
A pure impersonalist philosopher reasons this way:That who worship and serve a personal god with a f[Read More...]
A colleague of mine remarked that he has a co-worker who owns a flat in Calcutta which costs around [Read More...]
August 6th, 2012
A Freelancer has no career plan coming from HR dept or for that matter from anyone. Typically a free[Read More...]
July 25th, 2012
My research on dangerous cults and frauds posing as spiritual organizations continues and here are 2[Read More...]
For few weeks, I have been researching into 'spiritual cults' and here is a summary. This summary is[Read More...]
July 9th, 2012
More courses, More languages and more teachers at the beta release site of Wordsmith University Cou[Read More...]
July 8th, 2012
Regarding last post of mine on History of Indian IT, my very old friend and classmate Mr. Minoy had [Read More...]
July 2nd, 2012
I searched to find a history book on this theme but did not find any. If you know one, please let me[Read More...]
June 29th, 2012
In general case, what we call 'career' or 'biography' of a person is actually the biography of the m[Read More...]
Before I enter into the actual discussion, here are some issues, I shall overlook and discard after [Read More...]
June 28th, 2012
In 2006, I had a chat with a MBA student in the hostel corrirdor of Indian Institute of Technology, [Read More...]
June 14th, 2012
June 12th, 2012
Since November 2011, we are trying to build an online University with a narrow focus on the sunject[Read More...]
In Wordsmith University, we have recently announced a series of free webinars. We are also looking f[Read More...]
May 3rd, 2012
This how to is not only applicable for your boss but for any superior authority. This How to is eter[Read More...]
A normal worker or karmi (which means 99% of people) has something or other to say about his/her bos[Read More...]
According to Vedic Literature, there are four pillars of 'sinful life' or 'sowing the seeds of suff[Read More...]
April 26th, 2012
Subtle Art appeals to mind rather than senses alone. Hence, literature flourishes just before or aft[Read More...]
February 21st, 2012
February 8th, 2012
In late sixties, an old Bengali gentleman born near Harrison Road, Calcutta went to Massachusetes In[Read More...]
February 1st, 2012
The discovery of birth-control pill has been explained by an old man of Bengal to me in a conversati[Read More...]
When I was young, say thirty years back from now, we used to hear lots of noises coming from top end[Read More...]
January 24th, 2012
January 20th, 2012
Except a microscopic minority like islands, almost all universities of our times have the followin[Read More...]
January 7th, 2012
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December 30th, 2011
Here is what authorized and revealed Vedic Literature concludes on these issues. Courtesy : Lectures[Read More...]
Somewhere in 1920s, the tradition of science starting from Ionian awakening to Galileo-Kepler-Tycho-[Read More...]
December 29th, 2011
There is no man-made machine known which does not have a manual. An authentic and bona-fide manual c[Read More...]
December 17th, 2011
University is considered to be a concentration of 'intellectuals' just like a certain habitat finds [Read More...]
December 16th, 2011
University is a place for first class persons and the activities are to make first class persons. On[Read More...]
I am writing this for Indian young men and women in the age group of 18-22. There is quite a strong [Read More...]
December 15th, 2011
Six years ago as a telecom engineer working in a major corporation, I was looking for change in work[Read More...]
December 4th, 2011
In Sanskrit, a teacher is called an acharya - a person who practices what he preaches. In Vedic Cul[Read More...]
USO and CSO (University / College shaped Objects as per Fred Reed) are doomed today, at least if the[Read More...]
Never in human history, access to a place of sleeping, eating, mating and not formally working (home[Read More...]
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