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How to Take Meeting Minutes
How to Take Meeting Minutes Taking minutes at a meeting is a crucial job, this is our simple guide on what a professional minute taker should consider when attending a meeting. Take Note has been providing professional minute takers & transcription services to businesses across the globe for over a decade; this is our guide…
Read MoreTranscriber Job Description: Is a career in transcription worth it?
Transcriber Job Description: Is a career in transcription worth it? Did you know there’s a flexible and reliable way to make money from home? No, really – there is! By freelancing as a transcriptionist you choose how many hours you work, making it a great option for students or anyone looking to earn some extra…
Read MoreDo you think you could freelance?
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When you say you freelance, plenty of people think you simply don’t work and have all the time in the world to listen to their problems. That’s not the case at all, it requires great self-discipline. Certain types of freelance work, like transcription can be much needed additional income that slots brilliantly into your schedule.…
Read MoreTranscribers’ 5 biggest audio bugbears
Have you ever tried to look for blessings ‘in the skies’, or wondered why someone has a ‘ship’ on their shoulder? Perhaps you’ve been perplexed by the ‘lame man’ and his many terms, or simply couldn’t understand why someone would have zero ‘taller ants’.
Read MoreHow long does it take to transcribe an hour of audio?
What do the movie Titanic, a flight from the UK to Morocco, and the shaven heads of 662 Canadians all have in common? No idea? Well, they all take approximately the same amount of time as it takes a Take Note transcriber to produce an affordable transcript of one hour of audio.
Read MoreHow to make journal writing part of your life
As we hit the middle of January, now seems like a good time to check in on how we’re all doing with our New Year’s resolutions. We have officially passed the date when most people give up on their resolutions (January 10 th ), so if you’re still managing to keep up with yours, then…
Read MoreWhy It’s Time to Outsource Your Transcription
What could you get done if you had four extra hours in your day?
Read MoreHow the Skills You Learn as a Transcriber Benefit You in the Real World
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Being a transcriber requires accuracy, speed, and efficiency. We talk about that a lot, but we don’t talk so much about what being a transcriber gives you in return, even though it’s actually the gift that keeps on giving.
Read MoreThe Top Rules of Punctuation That People Still Get Wrong
They are but dots and dashes on a page, and they make no sound (unless you’re Victor Borge), and yet without them nothing we say would ever make sense.
Read MoreHow language quirks shape who we are
In 2007, professors at the USA’s National Academy of Sciences discovered that native Russian speakers were quicker at identifying certain shades of blue than native English Speakers. And with that gem of a fact, I don’t want anyone complaining that we fail to bring you the important news here at Take Note!
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