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A world without reading: For over 50 years, UNESCO has celebrated International Literacy Day in an attempt to highlight and overcome the levels of illiteracy that still exist amongst the world’s population.  When records began back in 1800, adult illiteracy levels were at a whopping 88%, with accessibility to schooling for the vast majority of…

In this post, we’ve collated some of the best places for online transcription jobs. If you have a good grasp of the English language, are a fast typer and have high attention to detail, transcription could be an ideal way for you to earn around your other commitments. Transcription is the process of transforming speech…

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 on how to take meeting…

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 money. This is a simple transcriber job description, to help…

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.

What could you get done if you had four extra hours in your day?

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.

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!

In 1946, Stella Pajunas, from Cleveland, Ohio, became the fastest typist in the world, achieving an incredible speed of 216 words per minute. At that pace, it would’ve taken her just under ten years to copy out every word of the King James Bible; five times quicker than the average human. In fact, Ms Pajunas…

Thor has his hammer, Bert has Ernie, and Beyoncé…well, Beyoncé doesn’t have anything, because she’s Beyoncé, but most superheroes have that one thing that’s by their side at all times, that one thing they simply can’t live without.