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Milos Prudek Czech Republic Local time: 06:56 English to Czech + ...
Oct 6, 2010
What is the current role of Facebook in marketing for freelance translators? How does it help get new business, and to what degree?
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Alex Eames Local time: 05:56 English to Polish + ...
More social than professional, but still worth it
Oct 6, 2010
At the virtual conference panel discussion last week, people were saying that facebook is more social than professional, but some leads can be gained from there because clients are more likely to hire you if they feel they "know" you a bit. Other networks like LinkedIn were considered of more professional use.
I expect some of the panellists may be along shortly to advise us.... See more
At the virtual conference panel discussion last week, people were saying that facebook is more social than professional, but some leads can be gained from there because clients are more likely to hire you if they feel they "know" you a bit. Other networks like LinkedIn were considered of more professional use.
I expect some of the panellists may be along shortly to advise us.
In my opinion, completely inexistent role. The only way you can reach big amounts of people is by making tons of friends.
In my opinion, LinkedIn is a more professional, potentially more interesting tool, but the amount of business coming that way is really ridiculous compared with the jobs and contacts you can make in a translator portal like Proz.com or similar.
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Milos Prudek Czech Republic Local time: 06:56 English to Czech + ...
Having said that, I would love to hear from people who get business from Facebook. Come forward please. ▲ Collapse
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Neil Coffey United Kingdom Local time: 05:56 French to English + ...
Privacy / Use
Oct 18, 2010
Re the privacy, it's a bit like anything else: the more functionality you use, the more you expose yourself, and you need to assess whether the benefits outweigh the risk in each case. I personally think that: - having a convenient place to communicate/catch up with friends I actually know probably outweighs the risks of passing certain data to Facebook - the benefit of accepting as "friends" people I actually don't know from Adam will often NOT outweigh the associated risks - ... See more
Re the privacy, it's a bit like anything else: the more functionality you use, the more you expose yourself, and you need to assess whether the benefits outweigh the risk in each case. I personally think that: - having a convenient place to communicate/catch up with friends I actually know probably outweighs the risks of passing certain data to Facebook - the benefit of accepting as "friends" people I actually don't know from Adam will often NOT outweigh the associated risks - the risk of passing my information to a third party probably outweighs the benefit of being able to "send" friends pictures of a pint of beer
As far as I can see, the Facebook security model is really designed around accepting as "friends" people who are actually friends and with whom you are prepared to share certain personal information that you wouldn't necessarily volunteer to a purely business client or to the wider world.
That said, actual friends can also from time to time bring you potential business. ▲ Collapse
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