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Hi everybody! I am so happy to see you again! Today is my happiest day in a loooooong time - the end of Delia's school year! Yay! Parents love summer vacations just as much as kids do :) A few good things happened since we talked last: 1. I had a webinar on ProZ about Google Plus and what it offers to us, translators. In spite of some unexpected sound problems everything went excellent! 2. A few days before the webinar I was interviewed by Maria Kopnitsky about my experience as a translator, trainer and social media enthusiast. Here is the link . Hope you like the post.

Image credit Hi everybody! How've you been? It's high time I shared some interesting, useful and fun tweets with you about translation , languages , marketing and networking . All these tweets were published in April and according to Topsy.com they got the most shares, retweets and replies. I had a great time while looking through those links, reading the articles that I missed because it's simply impossible to see everything on Twitter! I hope these links will be as useful for you as they were for me. As usual, you can see the names and Twitter usernames of all people who shared them, as well as hashtags they used. So you can follow these great twitterers and/or type the same hashtag in Twitter and look for more cool tweets on the same topics!

Hi everybody! Happy Friday!  It's a great honor for me to continue with the #followfriday tradition by recommending another great colleague and also a friend, Sarai Pahla . Sarai writes a brilliant blog . Besides, she once took part in my series about translation specialisation. Here you can learn more about how Sarai chose her specialty field. As usual, I asked Sarai some questions and here are her replies. Enjoy :)

If yes, then the last weekend of September would be a perfect time for that! The reason is Translation Forum Russia that is going to take place September 26th - 28th in Yekaterinburg . I have never been in that part of Russia, but I've been reading wonderful blogs of Olga Tkachenko for a few years now ( here's the first one , and here's the second ) and thanks to her posts I became greatly interested in Siberia and the Urals. It is not exactly a popular destination for a vacation here, so I really appreciate the chance to actally see it with my own eyes and meet my colleagues from Russia and other countries. Yes, you read right, there will be people from other countries, too! So save the dates in your calendar and let me know if you are coming, I'd love to see you there!

My dear readers, hello! I missed you so much! Sorry I disappeared again. I've enjoyed a very intense feast period in my work, plus Easter is coming, and my daughter's birthday falls on Easter this year! So I've been preparing a special holiday for her. But I am happy to be back with you and I am bringing a wonderful guest post by Konstantina Drakou about staying fit and healthy as a freelancer. I love Konstantina's way of keeping fit. Wonder how she does that? Then keep reading :)

Hi everybody! I owe you something very important. As you know, every month I share an article with the best tweets about translation , languages , marketing and freelancing . But I didn’t publish top tweets for February, so I decided to cover two months in one post. I strongly recommend you to check out those tweets. They are truly THE best. I found some very interesting and useful information there. And if there’s a post or an article that inspired you in February and March please share it in comments!

Hi everybody! How's your week been? Mine was surely interesting: I had a webinar for Russian-speaking translators, there were 2 birthdays in my family, plus there were a couple very interesting translation projects and a lot of requests from new clients and agencies. Hope at least a couple of them turn into new long-term relationships :) It's Friday, so it's the time to recommend another colleague! Today I'd like to share the interview with Caroline Alberoni . Caroline once took part in my series about keeping healthy and fit as a freelancer. You can read her post here . I really enjoy reading Caroline's blog and her posts in social media and I appreciate this chance to get to know her better. So here's the interview. Enjoy :)