for those unfamiliar with it,
Posted By: a bit of info, sm on 2009-04-04
In Reply to: Facebook is way more positive. You can - chill with your friends, MT or family
FB is set up so you completely control who sees your page (by invitation or accepting request), and how much they can see. Its free. You control what if any personal info you want to share. Its like mini snapshots of friends/family personal lives. Its not a brag page or tell all juicy nonsense page, but a way to stay connected and interact. Its also fun when someone goes on a trip and shares pics of places you've never been. I have family scattered all over and would never otherwise stay in touch with whats going on with them so well, but can do it from one page. Really kinda cool. Its worth a try for those who haven't yet!!
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Unfamiliar with this company. Do they have contact information??
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Hi, Unfamiliar. An already typed report comes up on the screen. You listen SM
just as you always did to the dictation and hop the cursor along the sentences and down the page with the dictation, making corrections as needed, such as correcting formatting, names, spelling, and wrong words, correcting and adding punctuation, filling in blanks, and so on.
It seems to require somewhat different skills from straight transcribing--ability to read and decide what and how to edit fast and accurately are needed, in addition to the ability to listen and type. I have the audio speed cranked up at or close to maximum on dictators I'm familiar with and whiz through those reports. Some make more editing and love it, some make less and hate it.
But all produce a lot more lines editing than transcribing. My company pays exactly half the transcribing rate for editing, feeling the average person produces about twice as many lines per minute of dictation on our platform, but some produce significantly more. So when you see someone fussing about how she's going broke earning only 60% of her transcription cents-per-line rate for editing, it's possible that she's significantly below average in her ability to edit quickly. Or something else is wrong, because at current pay rates a competent Editor should be making a decent or even better living.
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