The Pill's Harmful Effects on the Environment

Birth Control and the Big Lie

Ten Simple Tips for Better Transcripts

Even seasoned transcriptionists can do at least one thing to further improve their transcription skills. Make your current best even better by following these ten simple tips for improving your transcripts:

Sharpen your English skills.
Take online quizzes and tests at least once a month. There are free tests on websites like Brainbench. If you're used to transcribing in US English, take a test in UK English. You might be pleasantly surprised as I was by the results. I came out in the Top 10 when I took the Brainbench UK Written English test two years ago. I also landed the top spot for test takers from the Philippines.

Sharpen your typing skills.
Pretend you're a newbie and Google 'typing freeware' or browse Download.com. Get new typing software that works for you and type away! Find out what your weak spot is (words you often misspell, for example). I personally enjoy word games and typing games so these are great ways to refresh and learn before tackling that next project.

Learn a new writing style or format.
Review or read about a format you're unfamiliar with. If you're used to the Chicago Manual of Style try reading about other formatting styles. This will enable you to apply for transcription jobs from buyers or clients who prefer that particular format.

Learn new tools.
I constantly search the world wide web for new tools, preferably freeware. Download new tools from Download.com so you can create even better transcripts. I love using Net Transport for downloading audio/video files, OneLook Reverse Dictionary and Ditto clipboard software for easier copypasting. These are great time savers!

Follow the rules.
Every client has a different set of rules that you must follow. If you gain a new client, stick to his or her rules and resist the urge to do your own thing or to follow the rules that your previous client has given you. When in doubt, ask. Take note of lessons or skills learned from your new client.

Learn from your past mistakes.
If possible, get a copy of edited or corrected transcripts so you can learn from your mistakes. Find out what your weaknesses are and learn how to best overcome them.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison US inventor (1847 - 1931)

Take time for self-improvement.
Even five-star providers or freelancers need a break. Devote 15 to 30 minutes each day for personal development. Learn a new type of exercise one day and practice a relaxation technique the next. Find out what suits you best and what time works for you. What's important is that you take time for yourself so you can give your best each time you're working on a file.

Take onsite projects.
Take an onsite project, if available and if your schedule permits, just to gain more experience and possibly even more contacts with prospective clients. If you're experiencing some downtime in your online business, find out if there are transcriptionists in your area (or elsewhere in the world for that matter!) with an overflow of work that they'd be more than glad to delegate to someone else. I got a text message yesterday from one of our team leaders that her friend needs home-based medical transcriptionists! :)

Learn from others.
Get tips from other transcriptionists. Find out what tools (online dictionaries, word expanders, etc.) or techniques they are using. Read related blogs and listen to relevant podcasts. I can recall many times where the right piece of information landed on my lap just when I needed it most.

Share with others.
If you're a gifted speaker or teacher, look for ways to share your knowledge in your community or even online through Skype. Your knowledge expands even as you start sharing your knowledge to other people. Volunteer your time and provide free service to charitable organizations. This is one great way to further sharpen your skill and get good feedback for your sales letters or business blogs and possibly even business referrals.

What's your own top ten tips for better transcripts? Please feel free to share them in the comments section below or write about it and leave a link here. I'd be more than glad to learn from you. :D

Net Transport free version download link: http://www.oldversion.com/Net-Transport.html
Ditto: http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

Happy Mother's Day

I thank God for my mother who chose to give me life! :D

Latest Prolife Tweets

" #Prochoice" Rhetoric & Lies has brought more harm to women & has killed over 50 million innocent human beings. #abortion #sexed

" #Prochoice" "Safe" Abortion rhetoric & lies has killed over 200 women since Roe. Next 1 could be U. Stop lying 2 women now!

Some #prochoice rs still believe/promote the "Back Alley" Myth. I say ditch the coathanger now! http://ajph.aphapublications.org/

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#Abortion #Fact American women have abortions in part because IT IS LEGAL hence # of abortions skyrocketed. #prochoice #prolife #pregnancy

#Abortion #Fact 1000s of women will NOT die if abortion becomes illegal. Actually, millions of lives will be saved. #Prochoice = #Ignorance

" #Prochoice" has destroyed billions of lives worldwide. " #Prochoice" has saved ZERO women's lives. Abortion saves NONE. Choose LIFE.

Advances in medicine--availability of emergency care & drugs like penicillin--has saved women's lives, not abortion. CHOOSE LIFE. #prochoice

#Prochoice #LIE: A fetus is not a baby/child. || #Prolife #FACT: Medical experts/books say & prove otherwise. Science says FETUS=BABY=CHILD.

#Prochoice #LIE: Abortion is not murder. | #Prolife #FACT: Abortion is the brutal/inhumane murder of innocent human babies/children.

#Prochoice #LIE: Abortion is not murder since it is legal. | #Prolife #FACT: To murder is "to kill brutally or inhumanly." HeresTheBlood.com

#Prochoice #LIE 1000s of women will die if abortion becomes illegal like b4 Roe. || #Prolife #FACT PreRoe figures were exaggerated by NARAL!

#Prochoice #LIE 1000s of women will die.. | #Prolife #FACT >90% of abortions b4 1973 were performed by LICENSED PHYSICIANS! (Mary Calderone)

#Abortion #FACT: Healthy women R dying from LEGAL abortions..disguised as hemorrhaging, peritonitis, or other natural causes. :(( #prochoice

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Leave it to libtards to emphasize that pregnancy is "worse than abortion". #Prochoice #LIE: Legal abortion is safe. Pregnancy isn't.

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NOTE: Most are not doctored. There are plenty online if one will honestly search for the truth.

#Prochoice #LIE: #Prolife rs view women as "incubators" w/o rights/choices. | #FACT Most women R prolife & vice versa. I'm a prolife woman.



There was a time when hurting children was the worst thing any1 could possibly do, then came along " #prochoice feminists". #Abortion=MURDER

Such warped " #prochoice" thinking, pregnancy & adoption R bad, while abortion is the ultimate solution to women's problems! O_o

Such warped " #prochoice" thinking, an ultrasound is an "invasive procedure" while an abortion is completely safe and comfortable! o_O






TWEET FOR LIFE!

My Son Chose Life

Just found this on YouTube. What a beautiful child! Thank God this boy (and his mom) chose life!

This is info given by his mommy:

I want to start by saying that I strongly believed in pro-choice before the birth of my son. Not until I held him for the first time, was it even possible for me to understand what pro-choice really meant.

My son deserved to live, from the very moment of conception, and the reason why I'm so passionate about the subject is, not only did several people close to me encourage abortion, but it was also a very real consideration for myself.

I am so thankful I went with my heart, and I thank you for taking the time to watch.

If you're considering abortion, please choose life. PLEASE CALL 800-395-HELP for free, confidential counseling services. http://www.pregnancycenters.org

After Abortion: Linda's Letter

Dear friend,

I was seventeen when I had my first abortion. I was a perfect candidate: too young, hadn't finished high school yet, no money, no skills, father of the baby didn't want to marry me, and adoption was too painful to think about.

Later in Nursing School, when I saw pictures of foetal development, I was shocked. That blob of tissue had feet, hands and a heartbeat.

I had become very interested in women's health care and reproductive rights, fighting for women's right to abortion, but what I was saying conflicted with what I was feeling.

Some of the things were:

• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling guilty and seeking help from psychiatrists and feminist therapists?
• If abortion is so right, why am I so hostile towards the father of the baby... an anger that turned into a hatred for all men?
• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling exploited and so abused?
• If abortion is so right, why am I needing increased amounts of alcohol and drugs to numb the pain?
• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling so guilty around infertile couples who agonise over the wait for a baby by adoption?
• If abortion is so right, why am I so depressed that I think of suicide as a way out?
• If abortion isn't killing, then why, when I found a counsellor who allowed me to grieve therapeutically, did I symbolically need to take the torn, broken pieces of my baby's body from the garbage can in New York, sew him back together, name him and hold and rock and cry for what I did to him?
• If abortion isn't the death of a baby, why am I grieving?

In Weba (Women Exploited by Abortion) I finally found women who didn't tell me I had "made the best decision at the time." They understood my struggle with denial and allowed me to express my feelings by saying, "I can't believe I killed my babies."

For women who say that they don't regret killing their babies, I say, "Wait." It took me five years to break through the stage of denial.

If there is grief, there was death.

If there was death, there was life.

Linda

From: http://www.truthtv.org/abortion/women/womens-letters/linda/