How to participate

Participation doesn't require to register. There is no membership structure. Come relaxed.

Anyone involved or interested is welcome. Anyone means: seasoned interpreters, consec or simul, in conference, in social, business, medical, legal, liaison or any theater you can think about, beginners, students, teachers, interpreters with or without formal training.

If you are not used to it and fret about reading and discussing academic content and other "hard stuff", don't procrastinate. Many participants are not used to it (yet) to do this as a kind of exercise, so just let's try and do this, and have some serious fun, and especially be enlightened, encouraged and fortified.

Some rules and participation strategies

1. When you come in to participate, start by saying who you are, where you are, and what you do. It can be as simple as this:
2. "I am AAA, in Buenos Aires, conf interpreter"
3. Even if you jump into the conversation after it started, do your self-introduction. It is also a valuable way for participants to find out that they may be located next door. It gives a feel at how international #IntJC is.
4. Try and focus on the discussion points and session topics. Side-trackings on extended points are of course welcome but focus allows for quality and an enlightening professional chat experience.
5. Consider getting in touch in private with other participants. Leverage the sessions to engage into lasting professional dialogues.

Participation is easy.

If you only lurk, you don't need to get a Twitter account. If you want to participate, you need a Twitter account. Twitter is a free service.

We use Twitter with the hashtag #IntJC. The hashtag is a marker that allows to create a virtual meeting room with a common thread.

In order to simplify communication via Twitter, it is a good idea to use any application or web site that allows you to automate the insertion and tracking of the hashtag so you won't have to do it yourself and risk forgetting to insert #IntJC in your messages.

Tweetchat, a web based free service, allows to do automated tracking and hashtag insertion, but there are other solutions to do the same thing.

1. Have a Twitter account
2. Go to tweetchat.com
3. Sign up or Log in
4. Allow the system to use your Twitter account
5. In the top frame left to the button Go, type this: #IntJC (yes, it's dimmed and it shouldn't be that way)
6. Click Go
7. Now, you can see the #IntJC stream. From now on, there is no need to input the hashtag #IntJC in the message box on top each time you write down something. Tweetchat will take care of this.
8. Make things comfortable: Select RefreshSpeed button under the message frame
9. Push the slider to the left so that the screen is refreshed every 5 seconds.
10. Voilà, you are ready. Next time, you will simply have to Sign in.
11. That's it.
12. Join the professional conversation

Any similar solution to Tweetchat automatically inserts the #IntJC hashtag when you write down something. Tracking of new input by other participants is processed automatically so you don't have to refresh. Set the fastest refresh rate for maximum comfort (5 seconds in Tweetchat).

To have a look at what it feels, click Tweetchat, or search #IntJC using any other front-end, including the standard Twitter interface. Also check the transcripts of past sessions in the Archive tab above.

On D-Day, participants will freely enter and leave the loop, hopefully staying for the whole session.

You can already test the hashtag #IntJC and say something.

As you can see with the above link, things look and are indeed cluttered, especially if you are not participating. If you do, the interaction feels different and very meaningful.

Read all sections of this web site, experiment with the hashtag #IntJC, and when the time comes, get in the loop and participate.