(Almost) Wordless Wednesday March 16, 2022
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday March 9, 2022
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Let’s talk about email signatures March 1, 2022
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in Business practices.6 comments
Hey everyone! It’s ya gurl Jill. How has everyone been? Hopefully, most of you are healthy and doing well. This whole pandemic thing has really done a number on my mental health. I love our job and we were ideally suited for working through the pandemic, but living alone and being cut off from friends and family has really affected me. Sure, I have managed to stay COVID-free so far (vaccinated and boostered now), but I am still rather leery of attending large group events. I attended the ATA conference in person this year, and they did a great job with our group. Granted, we were only about 500 people, but it helped us keep some distance between us. I missed the hugs though. And if it hadn’t been for Zoom I would probably be typing this from a mental health facility. I’ve definitely been under a low-grade depression.
I haven’t blogged in a long, long time. It’s been almost a year and a half since my last “comics” post, but even longer since I had something to say. I always said I would still be here and chime in if I had something to say. Well, I would love to hear your opinions about email signatures. I am taking Corinne’s March Marketing Madness course, and the first task is to review our email signatures. I’ve had the same signature for a while, which means I could maybe spruce it up and bring it in line with the times.
What do you all think? Is less more? How many lines should a signature be? Graphics – yay or nay? I know some email clients might not be thrilled with graphics in the signature. Mine tends to pull all graphics out of a mail/signature and attach them as, well, attachments. I have several text-based signatures for my various email accounts.
This is my work email sig:
Sincerely,
Jill
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- Your feedback is very much appreciated as an essental element of my quality assurance process *
Jill R. Sommer, M.A.
Translation (Ger->Eng) & Net Services
http://www.jill-sommer.com / http://translationmusings.com
Phone: +1-330-421-0057
And my “personal” account:
Sincerely,
Jill
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Jill R. Sommer, MA
No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
And my Ethics Committee signature:
Sincerely,
Jill
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960), French Author, Philosopher, and Journalist
What do you all think? Are they OK as they are? Should I add something critically needed? Share your thoughts in the comments. I’m curious to see if anyone is still following this little blog o’ mine.
TGIF: The Translator September 4, 2020
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in TGIF.5 comments
Yeah, yeah, they mean interpreter. It’s still pretty funny.
Petition June 22, 2020
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in ATA.2 comments
If you are a voting member of ATA my colleagues and I respectfully ask you to consider signing and submitting this petition by June 24 (that’s tomorrow) so that a Bylaws amendment to ensure voter choice will be presented for a vote at the 2020 ATA Elections.
I spoke with a former president about this very subject on Thursday, so I was able to gain some insight as to why ATA does what it does. [S/he] said they don’t want to have to put up a “straw man” when they already have a good candidate in mind for the position. That doesn’t sound very democratic to me. In order for an organization to be strong there should be an active exchange of opinions – even and especially opinions that aren’t unanimous. [S/he] didn’t want anyone’s feelings to get hurt and have them decide not to run again. It’s business, folks; it’s not personal. When Bob and I weren’t elected last year I didn’t let it get me down. That isn’t why I’m not running this year. I (and several others) put my nomination in this year, and it wasn’t accepted. I then decided to stay off the board and be a loud, pain-in-the-ass, squeaky wheel instead. If someone chooses to run for office in a contested election there will always be a winner and a loser. Maybe people didn’t know them. Maybe their speech didn’t match what people wanted for a representative. It doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t try again in the future.
ATA’s Bylaws allow competitive elections for President-elect as well as the other officers (Secretary and Treasurer). After Bob and I got over 100 votes each as write-in candidates, we sat in on the board meetings on Saturday and Sunday and witnessed the debate and the Board, at the Nominating Committee’s request, subsequently voting to eliminate the NC’s obligation to put forward multiple qualified members as nominees. There was quite a bit of confusion surrounding this vote, in fact.
Let’s clarify it for them. If you feel the Board should be working for its own members’ best interests, we need a vote to add a Bylaws amendment to ensure voter choice will be presented for a vote at the 2020 ATA Elections. Signing the petition will take two minutes at the most. Once you are finished please send the signed petition to atapetition@gmail.com. This ensures it will at least be put to a vote, as it should be.
Musings from an overworked translator 