I was recently invited to be a “guest blogger” by Alexandra Popovic from VIP Virtual Solutions, a fellow twitterer, regarding transcription typing. There were many things I could have written about regarding this topic however considering my fellow twitterer is an online virtual assistant and VA’s make up the majority of people that contact The Transcription People looking for transcription work, I thought documenting the difference between transcription and typing would be a very relevant topic. You can view the post on Alexandra’s...

Running, no sprinting into the 21st Century the team at The Transcription People are starting to become more and more active in social media in Australia and Worldwide so now it is time for our blog to be born. The role of your stereotypical typist has changed greatly over the last ten years. We no longer use dictaphone tapes, audio files are now now digital and shared across the internet. We don’t wear large headphones on our ears straining to hear the the audio we have to type above the noise of a mechanical typewriter, these have been replaced by...