Poll: Do you keep in touch with Prozians you meet at Powwows? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Powwows are not only great fun but also perfect for building up your network with other translators, and also to meet old friends and colleagues. After each powwow I try to keep in contact with most of the new faces I have met.
I was a bit surprised though to see that roughly 2/3 of all who has taken part in the poll has never visited any Powwow. I can highly recommend it!
Regards
Erik
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Erik Hansson ( SFÖ ... See more Powwows are not only great fun but also perfect for building up your network with other translators, and also to meet old friends and colleagues. After each powwow I try to keep in contact with most of the new faces I have met.
I was a bit surprised though to see that roughly 2/3 of all who has taken part in the poll has never visited any Powwow. I can highly recommend it!
Regards
Erik
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Erik Hansson ( SFÖ )
Technical translator DE-SV
Hansson Übersetzungen GmbH
www.hansson.de
[email protected]
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Local time: 13:12
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In memoriam | Business is all about people | Feb 21, 2008 |
Yes, I most certainly do keep in touch.
Even to the extent of travelling abroad in order to meet and indulge in intellectual discourse beyond the scope of a traditional Powwow. Such as this occasion when a peer very kindly invited 3 others of us to a family party (I believe that made us one 'bottle' short of full Powwow status).
 ... See more Yes, I most certainly do keep in touch.
Even to the extent of travelling abroad in order to meet and indulge in intellectual discourse beyond the scope of a traditional Powwow. Such as this occasion when a peer very kindly invited 3 others of us to a family party (I believe that made us one 'bottle' short of full Powwow status).
Like Erik, the number of those who have never attended a Powwow surprises me (in fact Erik often surprises me).
I usually attend at least two in a year in Germany, the country of my source language. This costs more than a bus ticket but there are indeed benefits.
If there is a major Powwow coming up, I will plan my work around it, rather than the other way around. Apart from anything else, the guys who organise these events go to a lot of trouble and certainly deserve being the extended the courtesy of knowing who will be present.
The benefits are as follows:
-You get to know people. You make friends. This leads to their sharing work/leads with you. I would imagine that this could indeed be of key importance to those new to the business.
-The 'chit-chat' aspect means a very useful exchange of technical and business-related issues.
-There are often demonstrations/lectures on aspects of our work. I have found many of these to be both interesting and highly useful.
-Also, go on: be honest! Has it ever ocurred to you that your partner/friends might not be quite as interested in the discussion of translation as you possibly suspected. Believe it or not, at a Powwow, I fancy that you will meet very few peers who will say: "Oh no, he's rambling on about bloody translation again..."
Finally, there is the pure fun aspect. With the hours that we work, a day or two away from the office is always welcome. You can relax and chill out in the company of your peers. In fact, it is interesting to note that many translators I know can - when called upon to do so - party just as intensively as they can work.
It's that old translation concept of "Right, I am into it now and I am going to see it through and it's going to be superb."
There are some great people out there - do yourself a favour and get to meet them!
Chris
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| | | | awilliams
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:12
Italian to English
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| Poll: Do you keep in touch with Prozians you meet at Powwows? | Feb 21, 2008 |
Man, what is that blue drink?
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| Blue beverage | Feb 21, 2008 |
Wow, Textclick, what on EARTH is that poisonous blue beverage? If that's what they serve up at Powows I'm in!
Jenny.
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In memoriam | No Powwow, that... | Feb 21, 2008 |
Jenny Forbes wrote:
Wow, Textclick, what on EARTH is that poisonous blue beverage? If that's what they serve up at Powows I'm in!
Jenny.
...as I suggested in the second sentence of my post.
It was in fact a summer cocktail party (and I'm not surprised the glass was left standing). If I saw something like that at a Powwow, my motherboard would melt.
Still, glad your interest has been ignited.
Chris
[Edited at 2008-02-21 17:36]
| | | | Ágata Sousa
Brazil
Local time: 09:12
English to Portuguese
But I never attended one. But if there is something in Rio de Janeiro, I'm sure to go!
| | | | | No powwows here... | Feb 22, 2008 |
I'd love to attend a powwow in Japan, but unfortunately the one scheduled for January this year got canceled and there are no upcoming new ones yet...
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Nicole Schnell
United States
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In memoriam | Keeping in touch? Absolutely! | Feb 22, 2008 |
Mere fellow Proz-members turn into real colleagues turn into friends. Priceless.
There is more to work than typing your fingers to the bone.
Attending Powwows always means serious airplane tickets and hotel stays to me as translators in my language pair are pretty scarce in the Pacific-Northwest. It's worth every mile, every cent and every minute.
Even better: staying in touch afterwards.
I truly hope that I can make it again to Berlin in a ... See more Mere fellow Proz-members turn into real colleagues turn into friends. Priceless.
There is more to work than typing your fingers to the bone.
Attending Powwows always means serious airplane tickets and hotel stays to me as translators in my language pair are pretty scarce in the Pacific-Northwest. It's worth every mile, every cent and every minute.
Even better: staying in touch afterwards.
I truly hope that I can make it again to Berlin in a couple of weeks!!
Totally forgot: Don't underestimate networking. Colleagues will recommend you after they got to know you. Guess, where I got my largest client from.
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| | | | | Swimming Pool? | Feb 22, 2008 |
Amy Williams wrote:
Man, what is that blue drink?
To my (entirely untrained, of course!) eye, it looks like a Swimming Pool - Blue Curacao, pineapple juice, rum, coconut and cream? It's basically a blue pina colada....
| | | | Silvina Matheu
Argentina
Local time: 09:12
Member
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| Keep contact with many | Feb 22, 2008 |
Only 3%?
I have worked in groups, made some friends. I enjoy meeting them a lot!
It's true what I've been told about networking.
Silvina
| | | | Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 14:12
Member (2006)
Russian to Hungarian
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SITE LOCALIZER | powwows are valuable | Feb 23, 2008 |
...because in the office we never have time to TALK
...because I can meet more colleagues, not just for building a network, but SEE THE PERSONALITY AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK AND THE POSTS
and I think the personality is something valuable what is always good to explore.
Sometimes this personal meetings help just ... better understand each other, even without common working languages.
(But..there is still always the problem I face: should I close the office for ... See more ...because in the office we never have time to TALK
...because I can meet more colleagues, not just for building a network, but SEE THE PERSONALITY AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK AND THE POSTS
and I think the personality is something valuable what is always good to explore.
Sometimes this personal meetings help just ... better understand each other, even without common working languages.
(But..there is still always the problem I face: should I close the office for two or three days? Can I sacrifice the time and the money for "just" a Powwow? If I think about Budapest conference, maybe it was one of harvest decisions not take a part in it. We were in the middle of big project, I had to decide between summer camps of my kids and between the conference - simply: there was no time, no money enough. But there is a big dream somehow to St. Petersburg.. in the period of my study in Russia and Latvia it was restricted area for foreigners and I left Russia without seeing this wonderful city... ) ▲ Collapse
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| Blue beverage | Feb 29, 2008 |
The mysterious liquid was named Blue Scrab
after him/her: 
Ingredients:
3 cl Blue Curacao
2 cl cream
3 cl coconut sirup
10 cl pineapple juice
Cheers,
Harry
[Edited at 2008-03-12 06:32]
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