I was recently invited to become a forum moderator over at Translators Cafe. Naturally I accepted this honor and I'm now the moderator of the "Working as a Freelancer" forum. I'm excited to have this opportunity to get to know my industry better, as well as to meet some peers in the field.
This should also help me stay in touch with my work in general, I think, by encouraging me to concentrate on the field of translation and what it means to work as a freelance translator.
Several folks have written to recommend some other useful translation databases. Thanks to everyone who has done so, and keep them coming! Here are my latest finds:
Proz.com is one that I have actually subscribed to for some time and just forgot to mention. There are lots and lots of jobs that flow through this site. I wonder sometimes about price-gouging, but I have gotten a few jobs from this one.
Translator's Cafe is another one that I'm registered at, which I simply forgot to mention. Personally, I have found this most useful as a community discussion site, but there are jobs here as well.
Logtar points out Globalization.com, a new one to me that I shall have to investigate.
Most of my business so far has come from responses via the Internet, in various forms. I try to register myself at as many databases that I can find as one way to get my name out. I thought it might be useful to others to list some of the ones I've found. I will continue to post them in the future, as well, so if you want to check back, just click the "Translator Database" category index to see all of the posts on this particular topic.
The latest one I've found is Aquarius.net. They have a good profile system where you can provide pretty detailed info, as well as upload your resume in Word or .pdf format.
Some others, in no particular order:
24 Hour Translations
All Star Translators
Foreignword.biz
Foreignword.com
GoTranslators
Term Seek, Inc.
TRALLY.COM
Translator Planet
Traduguide
1stop-language.com
transline.net
ekoke.com