Celebrate the holidays with NEaT

NEaT’s annual holiday party will be in Helsinki on the evening of Friday, 1 December. Join us after work at 6 pm for a relaxed and fun evening focused on getting to know each other. We’ll have a baked potato bar, so bring your favorite potato topping to add to the menu and your own beverages. NEaT will provide a welcoming drink, dessert and all the potatoes you can eat. 

This is an open event so bring a friend or colleague you would like to introduce to NEaT.

1 December at 6 pm

PAM Office, Säästöpankinranta 4 C 21, Helsinki, push the buzzer and we’ll open the door

Free for members, five euros for non-members

RSVP at info@nordicedit.fi.

If you miss the Helsinki gathering, you are welcome to join the NEaT new year online on Tuesday 9 January. 

A new year, a new you? See you in January to share experiences from last year and think about the year to come. What do you hope for yourself and your work in 2024? Do you have any new year’s resolutions? Join us on Zoom for an hour from 5 pm Helsinki time to ring in the new year with us.

NEaT deep dive: Negotiating, charging and selling translation and editing services

Come and listen to a panel discussion between Vanessa Fuller (Revisor and Instructor in Finland) and David Ordoubadian (Translator in Sweden).

Thursday, 30.11.23 @ 16-17.30 Finnish time

Now’s your chance to hear two experienced language professionals talk about the secrets to their success!

Want to know how they decide what to charge a client? How they negotiate rates and ensure good quality translations and edits? Why they don’t have to market their services too much? What they do when they realize they’ve quoted far too little for a difficult job?

Interested? Then come and join in! Sign up at info@nordicedit.fi.

**********************************************************************************

Vanessa Fuller, a University Instructor and English-language revisor at the University of Helsinki, tweaks texts. For the past 20+ years, first in Moscow and later in Holland and Helsinki, she has worked as an in-house and freelance style editor and publications manager, in both the public and private sectors, and obsessively encourages and gently assists clients and mentees to communicate their science in more audience friendly and creative ways. 

David Ordoubadian runs his own translation agency in Sweden. Started  in 1997, his agency is small but is able to compete with the big agencies in public procurements and has developed a few specialties where it can compete. David is a translator, editor, instructor in academic writing and works with issues relevant for the translation industry.

**********************************************************************************

NEaTup!

Welcome to a Helsinki NEaTup! Feeling a bit restless after getting back to work? Or just want to meet more NEaT people? We’ll NEaTup for a gaming night at Harry’s Bar at 6 pm on 28 September. We’ve reserved the back room, and we’ll bring games. Join us, and bring a favorite game along if you like! See you there!

  • NEaTup at Harry’s Bar
  • Liisankatu 27, Helsinki
  • Thursday, 28 September
  • From 6 pm

Want to chat about ChatGPT?

Everyone’s talking about it….so let’s talk too!!

Join us on Zoom to discuss ChatGPT. Have you experimented with it yet?  What does it mean for language professionals? Is it an opportunity for us, or a threat?

8th July, 18.00 FINNISH TIME.