Archive for May, 2016
Conference calls are very different from a typical mobile phone call. In our previous post, Why Your Mobile is Killing Your Client Calls (and What to do About it!), we mentioned that one study found that the huge majority of mobile calls last less than 30 minutes. This is in sharp contrast to conference calls […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Troublesome Terps is a new podcast for the interpreter community. The project is co-hosted by Alexander Drechsel (@adrechsel ), Alexander Gansmeier (@ACGInterpret) and Jonathan Downie (@jonathandownie), who are themselves professional interpreters based around Europe and the UK. Episode #4 of the podcast featured Barry Slaughter-Olsen (@ProfessorOlsen), General Manager of Multilingual at ZipDX, in a nearly […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Mobile phones are one of the most successful, rapidly-accepted and deployed technologies ever. For all they can do, mobile phones are relatively cheap, functional and easy to use. It’s no wonder that virtually everybody in the developed world has a mobile phone. In fact, there’s over four billion of them in use today. What business […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →(Note: This is Part One in a three part series) When it comes to making a phone call today, you have a number of options. From prehistoric landlines to super-cool mobile phones – and all the specialty apps in between – there’s no shortage of the ways for business professionals to get connected today. Once […]
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