The World from Your Desktop: Making Friends with the Internet [workshop announcement: electronic communication]

Leader: Eric Bossieux, Technological Transformations International

One-day Writing Workshop [Kansai announcement]

Leader: Linda Crawford

Dialogue on Translation [professional latitude, responsibility]

A Mangled Message (LER)

"Fat Horse Talk" (CDW)

Help Wanted [call for volunteers for SWET activities and functions]

Boons and Doggles (JS) [review: several online word tools by Anu Garg]

The Book Mavin Returns: Professional Reading [book reviews]

The Elements of E-mail Style (FMU)

The Programmer's Survival Guide: Career Strategies for Computer Professionals (KW)

Wordwrights: Words for Sale [freelance writing as a business]

Featured: Bill Williams

Getting Started: A Freelance Writer's Guide to the Magazine and Journal Market in Japan (KM) [input from editors of leading periodicals]

Periodicals represented: Kansai Time Out; The Imperial; Japan Related; Japan Times Weekly; Mangajin; PHP Intersect; Tokyo Journal; Tokyo Today; Wingspan           

Over Their Shoulders (FMU) [translation comparison: business conference report

Translators: Ruth McCreery, Suzanne Trumbull, Richard Walker

Money (FMU) [benefits of raising your rates]