New sheriff in town

Hello everyone. Christian has accepted my offer and I am now the Nordic Division blog and web site editor. He lured me in with the promise of only a little work. Let’s prove him wrong — I look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best regards,

Charlie

Charles Ek
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NORDIC DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (Oct 28, 2011)

Hi Everyone,

I’m in process of putting together an agenda for the annual meeting in Boston.  I have outlined a few items for the agenda – please send me any additional items you wish to discuss (preferably no later than Oct. 5th), and I’ll include them in the final version.

Best,

Christian Schoenberg
Administrator

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

NORDIC DIVISION OF THE

AMERICAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION

 

Friday, October 28, 2011 at 10:00am–11:00am

Marriott Copley Place, Boston

 

 

 1.       Call to order

2.       Acceptance of agenda

3.       Approval of minutes of last year’s meeting

4.        ND Overview for 2011

• Report on LinkedIn
• Report on Website
• Report on ND Blog
• Report on Outreach Effort relating to Chambers of Commerce
• Report on ND Annual Dinner

5.       New Business for 2012

•  Introduction of Governing Policy for Divisions: http://www.atanet.org/divisions/governing_policy_2011.pdf
• Division Elections

– Review of officer duties

– Call for volunteers for Nominating Committee

• ATA’s 53rd  Annual Conference (Hilton San Diego Convention Center,  San Diego, California, October 24-27, 2012)

– Topics and speakers wanted

– Submission of proposal form online

• Division plans for coming year

– Newsletter (call for articles; announce schedule; recruit new editor and layout designer, if needed)

– Website (upcoming changes, additional volunteers; suggestions)

– ND Blog/LinkedIn (past year and future)

– New Media (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)

6.       Adjournment

 

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Nordic Division’s Annual Dinner

52nd Annual ATA Conference

Come visit us at the upcoming 52nd Annual ATA Conference (October 26-29, 2011, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts).

And don’t forget to sign up for the Nordic Division’s Annual Dinner in Boston. We need to have a very accurate headcount for this event, so please sign up no later than Saturday, October 1st by writing me at cs@tollund.com. 

This year’s event will take place at Friday Oct 28th, from 7:30 to 11:00 PM at
Morton’s Steakhouse, 699 Boylston Exeter Plz
Boston, MA 02116-2848, Tel. (617) 266-5858

(Map at http://g.co/maps/28ysu)

In the hope that Google Maps is more reliable than Google Translate, it will take a reasonably healthy translator about 4 minutes to walk from the Conference Site (Marriott) to the restaurant. Depending on the food/drinks consumed, the return trip may take considerably longer.

Christian Schoenberg
ND Administrator

Information on becoming a certified English into Swedish translator

After a successful spring meeting for the language chairs in the certification program, I am happy to announce that you will have the opportunity to take the English into Swedish certification at the ATA annual conference in Boston, Oct. 26-29, or at the FIT conference, Aug. 1-4 in San Francisco.

For more information on how to register for the exam, please go to: http://atanet.org/certification/aboutexams_overview.php

There is also plenty of information there on how to prepare, how the grading works, eligibility requirements etc.

The best tip I can give is to take a practice exam, since you receive your graded passage/text back with comments. When you take the actual exam, you do not receive your graded exam back, only the results.  The practice test is sent to you and you return it to a grader who then will send you back the results. More information on requesting a practice test can be found here: http://atanet.org/certification/aboutpractice_test.php

 Why should you get certified?

Certification is by no means required to succeed as a translator. However, certified translators usually earn more and have increased credibility of being a professional translator.

Feel free to contact me at tess@swedishtranslationservices.com if you have any questions or concerns, and good luck! For certification in other Nordic languages, please contact respective language chair.

English into Swedish Certification now approved

Just wanted to let you know that the ATA has now approved the certification program of English into Swedish. A lot of hard work went into this, so permit me to extend our heartfelt thanks to Tess Whitty, Lisa Dahlander, Gunilla Medina, and Ingrid Olsson (and Thor Truelson and David Rumsey) and everyone else who worked so tirelessly to make this happen. Stay tuned for how to take practice tests and exams.

Also, please join our LinkedIn Nordic Division Group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3682273&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Christian Schoenberg

Message from Christian – our new Administrator

Dear ND Members:

A brief note to thank you for the honor of nominating and electing me Administrator of the Nordic Division. And thank you to Thor Truelson and Tiina Fallini for their excellent work over the past years.

I’m truly regret not being able to attend the convention in Denver. Alas, the life of of a translator is unpreditable.

I hope to be able to perhaps create greater network opportunities for our members both on the Internet and by making the various local chambers of commerce aware of our existence and the advantages of using translators and interpreters who conform and adhere to ATA standards. In that regard, and to start off, I should like to arrange for an informal by-invitation-only discussion forum (perhaps on Facebook or LinkedIn) to bring individual members together and to facilitate the sharing of ideas and viewpoints. (More about that later.)

In addition to these goals, one of my formal duties is to find speakers for the next Convention. I’d be very interested in suggestions. Our deadline for nominating such speakers is in February, so please submit proposals by January.

Anyway, for now, again, thanks so much for electing me – I hope I’ll be able to make a difference, bring us closer together and even grow our numbers.

Best wishes for a busy November,
Christian

Best regards,
Christian

CHRISTIAN SCHOENBERG
Tollund, Inc. • Nordic Legal Language Services Tel. +1 (212) 933-1800 • Cell. +1 (978) 257-6426

Time to vote for a new Administrator

For the first time in many years the Nordic Division has two candidates for the new Administration for the Nordic Division.

You should have received ballots for voting and candidate statements in the mail. If you have not, please contact Jamie Padula at jamie@atanet.org.

All voting ballots should be returned by October 20, 2010 and the results will be announced at the Nordic Division Annual Meeting at the ATA Conference on Thursday October 28th, 2010.

ATA Webinar – The Entrepreneurial Linguist

ATA has started with continuing education through webinars. Next webinar is called “The Entrepreneurial Linguist”, by Judy Jenner. Don’t miss this opportunity.

This webinar will focus on working with direct clients and marketing in an online world. The presentation will cover:

•Finance/economics—pricing, supply and demand
•Accounting—decreasing expenses
•Entrepreneurship—generating new business, networking
•Negotiating—tips and tricks

You can get more information by following the link below:

The attachment gives details for Judy Jenner’s Webinar, “The
Entrepreneurial Linguist: Lessons from Business School.” The Webinar
date is September 23, at noon. You can also see Webinar details here:
http://www.atanet.org/webinars/business_2010.php

Is this Swedish? The recent changes in language

Languages are constantly changing. Are you keeping up with the changes in the Swedish language?

Nordstjernan recently posted a very interesting article about new words in Swedish, called “Fett and keff and other words you need to know”.

Here is the link: http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/education%7Cresearch/2572/

Nordstjernan is the Swedish newspaper in America. With roots in the nineteenth century, it has become a platform for Swedes and Swedish-Americans to meet, online and in print.

Nordic Division at the ATA Conference

We hope to see you at the ATA Annual Conference in Denver. Here are things to pencil into your calendar during the conference:

The annual Nordic Division dinner will take place Friday Oct. 29th at 7 pm. We will go to Venice Ristorante and Wine bar in downtown Denver.

Thursday Oct. 28th: 11:30 am -12:30 pm Working as an In-House Scandinavian Translator
Thursday Oct. 28th: 2:30-3:30 pm Scandinavian to English Translation Workshop
Thursday Oct. 28th: 4-5 pm Annual Meeting
Friday Oct. 29th: 2.30-3:30 pm English-Danish Financial Translation
Friday Oct. 29th: 4-5 pm Back to School: Translating Scandinavian Educational Documentation