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Why outsource your audio transcription?

Outsource to an expert If  your business needs case notes, reports, minutes or transcripts accurately documented, it makes good sense to outsource your audio transcription to an expert so you: ...

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How to become an on-site (face to face) scribe

If you're a good writer and fast typist you can potentially learn how to be an on-site scribe. Do you have good listening and writing skills? An on-site scribe is a person who scribes what the pe...

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Editing oral history transcripts

Oral histories can remain just that - oral - or they can be transcribed into an oral history transcript. For more information about recording and transcribing oral histories go to: Recording and t...

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Mini-book review: a very white history

A white history of Moe If you are interested in white people's  history, then you may enjoy Settlement to City - A History of Moe & Newborough, by Graham Goulding, which was revised and repub...

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What office equipment does a freelancer need?

Every freelancer or sole trader contractor needs 1) a suitable office, 2) suitable office equipment, and 3) the equipment (including software) they need for their particular business. Home-based o...

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Thank you, Bendigo community

Thank you, Bendigo, for a brilliant weekend The Easter Fair - carnivals in the street and in Rosalind Park including free activities for kids - and the Easter Procession were just a few of the del...

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Face value

Who owns your face? In Australia, by law, anyone can photograph and publish a picture of your image without asking your permission, unless doing so contravenes Australia's laws cultural or intelle...

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How I became a scribe

How I became a scribe was a long and winding road with a bumpy start in high school... The early days (before computers) It was the early eighties. In Year 10 at St Mary's College, Bendigo, Victo...

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Why pianists make good scribes

What do pianists and scribes have in common, and why do pianists make good scribes? By 'pianist', I mean anyone who has learned to play classical piano (whether or not they still play). By 'scri...

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How blogging (and social media) can help your business

Why blog? If your main aim of starting a blog is to capture more customers there are probably easier and less time consuming ways to do this (such as paid advertising); and blogging is of more val...

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