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What I'm involved in these days...
Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: français
SAWI: la formation MCMS a démarré!
[en]The year-long course on social media and online communities (20 days) that I’m co-directing for the SAWI here in Lausanne has started today. Great first day, and great class![fr]Vous vous souvenez, il y a quelque mois, je vous annonçais l’ouverture … Continue reading
Posted in My work
Tagged communautés en ligne, community manager, formation, français, lausanne, mcms, médias sociaux, sawi
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Traduction suisse romande de WordPress.com
[en]Swiss-French translation of WordPress.com: I got it! (Thanks, Zé) You may or may not know that French (like any other language) varies between linguistic regions. There is now a Swiss-French translation of WordPress.com, which I’m proud to manage.[fr]Il y a … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress
Tagged fr-ch, français, suisse, suisse romande, traduction, Wordpress, wordpress.com
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Tulalu avec Paule Mangeat
[en]A literary meetup with a local author, and some considerations on what language I write in as a bilingual person (answer: way more English than French).[fr]Mon “petit homonyme” Stéphanie, comme je l’appelais affectueusement il y a une quinzaine d’années déjà, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, My corner of the world, On Writing
Tagged anglais, bilingue, côté rue, écrire, écriture, écrivain, français, genève, littérature, littérature romande, nouvelles, paule mangeat, premier jet, tulalu, zinema
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Bloguer en français ou en anglais?
[en]I write a weekly column for Les Quotidiennes, which I republish here on CTTS for safekeeping.[fr]Chroniques du monde connecté: cet article a été initialement publié dans Les Quotidiennes (voir l’original). Les blogueurs qui se lancent se demandent souvent dans quelle … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Chroniques du monde connecté, Language Geekiness
Tagged anglais, anglosphère, blogosphère, choix, français, francosphère, langue, public
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Je tweete, tu tweetes… merci de laisser les twits au vestiaire
[en]About the correct way to say “to tweet” and “a tweet” in French. No twits, please. Or even twitts. It just sounds plain stupid.[fr]J’ai beau être une horrible bilingue qui parsème allègrement mon français d’anglicismes et mon anglais de gallicismes, … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Social Media and the Web
Tagged anglais, bon usage, explication, français, langue, terminologie, traduction, tweet, tweeter, twit, twitt, twitter
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De la dégradation de la langue
[en]About my French spelling being worse than it was 15 years ago (is it the keyboard? is it something else?) and the terrifying experience of “losing my French” while I was in India 10 years ago.[fr]La mienne, en l’occurence. Plus … Continue reading
Mon article sur Twitter dans Le Temps
[en]I wrote an article about Twitter for a local newspaper. It was published on Monday, and I’m pretty happy about it![fr]Lundi a paru dans Le Temps Twitter, ou 140 caractères pour raconter sa vie, article écrit par bibi et dont … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media and the Web
Tagged article, explications, français, le temps, Press, publication, Social Software, stephanie booth, twitter
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Que d’anglais
[fr]Just an explanation to my French readers about the amount of English here recently. Has to do with a post-LIFT’07 effect and the hard time I have coming back to “where we are with blogs and stuff in Switzerland”. (Answer: … Continue reading
Posted in My corner of the world, Social Media and the Web
Tagged anglais, décalage, Events, français, grinche, journaux, lift07, Media, médias, romandie, Social Software, suisseromande, Swiss blogging, switzerland, Venting
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Chassons les fautes
[en]Typos and other stuff. Encouraging readers to hunt them down in the photos I took.[fr]Comme promis hier soir aux participants du dernier Bloggy Friday, une petite chasse aux fautes. Trois images pour vous, au moins trois fautes. Cliquez sur les … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggy Friday, Language Geekiness
Tagged 20minutes, chasseauxfautes, correcteurs, correction, edipresse, édition, faute, fautedefrançais, français, Fun for me, Languages / Linguistics, langue, lematinbleu, matinbleu, Media, orthographe, Press, presse, switzerland, tamedia
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Digital Crumble
Cours d’initiation aux blogs le 26 février
[en]On February 26th I will be holding my first public blogging class (beginners) at the ISL. The workshop I am holding tomorrow morning at LIFT covers the same material, but in English.[fr]Mise à jour, 13.02.2008: ce cours est repoussé car … Continue reading →