Powwow Report for China - Beijing (Apr 19 2008)


Trouble uploading your powwow report or photos? Contact support.
Report from  Dominique Laurent

First of all, thanks to all of you for coming!

What was to be a “free flowing chat” between 10-15 people was not possible with 51 people attending. So please excuse me if I was sometime very directive :-)

Special thanks to Louis Huo, ProZ member, Wendy and Derek, from N.E Courtyard Hotel, who helped me a lot with the Powwow organization.


Beijing Powwow April 19th 3-6 pm
Networking, tips etc…

1th part:

General discussion about the following topics:

How to advertise oneself?

How to develop working relationships with companies and freelance agencies?

Rates and quality: in general and in China.

Are translations' agencies useful or not?

We were lucky enough to have attendees from all sides of the language business: starting and established translators, interpreters, language students and translation agencies, so that the exchange of ideas and experiences were quite interesting.

Break

2d part:

Each attendee introduced him/herself: Name, language pairs, specialization.

Break

3d part:

Free networking.


Participants showed interest for a new meeting in a couple of months.






Login to add your name to the list of people interested.Click here to login now.

Click here to register. (It is free.)


ProZ.com users and members who attended
: organizer : photos : report : host
Cristina Tabbia (X)
X
Arnaud Jacobs
Jeffrey Chen
Jianjun Zhang
ChrisWukong
lbone
Dandan Zhang
Ernest Georn
Melody Xie
Qin Liu
Jimmy Tian
Aaron Gilkison (X)
X
Andrew Rink
alex73
Estelle Nurier
Impala Services
Joachim Sieg (X)
X
JEFFRAY
mtj73athome
phdvet2001
Shirley Fan
chrisleo
Chen Run
William He
logique
Maria Semenova
yangxxxx
Arianne Farah
lesleyding
Rensheng Qi
Christine Wan
Hualin Wang
Wenjia
slew
X
atoptrans
X
louis huo
Bea Geenen
Dominique Laurent
\"Reporter\"
helen zeng
mahuta
Beyondlingua
Prudence Zhu
vera123
happy sherry
 


Postings from ProZians who attended this event

Apr 22 '08  Qin Liu: Thank you, Dominique!
Thank you, Dominique! It was a very successful Powwow! Nice place, nice people...

It is very hard to find a topic that 51 people are interested. However, free networking gives us more opportunities to know more colleagues.
Apr 21 '08  mtj73athome: Thank you
Thank you everyone, especially Dominque for organizing the powwow. I'm looking forward to the future ones. Marek
Apr 21 '08  logique: Thanks, Dominique
Thanks for organizing the event, Dominique! Really great to see so many colleagues in real life and the wonderful smiles radiating from the faces of our fellow translators and interpreters! Looking forward to next gathering!
Apr 21 '08  Rensheng Qi: Thanks to everyone!
Let's thank Dominique for initiating and organizing, and thank everyone for sharing their experiences and information.
Apr 21 '08  lbone: Thank you, Dominique!
Dominique, thank you for the successful organiation of this big powwow. And also thanks Jianjun for the live broadcast.
Apr 21 '08  lesleyding: Thank you!
Dominique, thank you for your organization!
It was really nice to see you all and hope we'll meet again soon~
Apr 21 '08  Cristina Tabbia (X): Great to meet you all!
It was really nice to meet you all and have a chance to get to know each other better. Hope we'll do it again soon :-)
Apr 21 '08  Bea Geenen: Thanks!
Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you, Dominique, for organizing this powwow! It was great to see the faces behind the names. I definitely picked up some interesting ideas too. Unfortunately, I did not get to talk to everyone, so I really hope we can get together again soon. Did anyone take any pictures? I had brought my camera but then totally forgot about it. It would be great to get copies of the pictures!
Hope to see you all soon!
Bea
Apr 21 '08  Aaron Gilkison (X): It was a good meeting! Thanks Dominique!
Apr 19 '08  Chen Run: May I go with my friend?
I said in my last post that one friend come to Beijing, could I go with him?
Apr 19 '08  mintwine: thanks, Dominique
I received the scheduled order now. so I can't attend. But thanks a lot for your effort in arranging this and good luck:)
Apr 19 '08  mintwine: Dear Dominique
last time I said I was supposed to have a surgery. it is actually cancelled temporarilly. but I still get a urgent task to assistant an expo manegement or something this afternoon(still waiting for the detailed order). so surely I will go to this powwow if I don't have to go to the expo, and please excuse me if I have to. as for the fee, if my absence bring any budget shortage. i think you can give me an account to sent my due charge even though i may not be able to attend. thanks for you arrangement of this event
Apr 19 '08  Chen Run: Sorry, I can not attend
My calssmate just called me that he's come to Beijing from Shanghai. I feel sorry I can not attend the meeting. Wish u a good time, and hope have another chance.
Apr 19 '08  Wenjia: attendants
Yeah, sure. Really appreciate your quick response.

See you later! :P

Wenjia
Apr 19 '08  Wenjia: Attendants
Dear Dominique,

Would it be ok if I bring two more friends over, one is a professional translator also and the other is just a friend who's interested in translation.

Thanks.

Wenjia