You may have heard that YouTube added auto-captioning capabilities to its videos in March 2010. But why is captioning your videos on YouTube so important? YouTube says it’s all about accessibility. In addition, providing captions for the videos you post on any video-sharing website including YouTube, Viddler, and Vimeo can benefit both you and your video-watching audience in more ways than one.

Having your YouTube videos transcribed/captioned provides three main benefits:

• Captions help the deaf and hard of hearing to understand your video content.
• Captioning can significantly boost your video’s SEO (search engine optimization) by encouraging Google and YouTube to index your content.
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Improve Your Home Office Week is the second week in October. As transcriptionists, our workplace is often our home office. Since we spend so much time there, what better time to find ways to improve productivity and make our home office more comfortable?

Get Organized

--Buy a new desk organizer

--Come up with a better more efficient way to store client/customer info

--Keep your workstation clean so that finding what you need is easier and faster

Improve Your Health and Stamina

--Buy a new ergonomic chair to fight fatigue and neck and back strain

--Buy typing gloves and an ergonomic keyboard to fight carpal tunnel

Decorate Your Surroundings

--Incorporate plants, pictures, and your favorite things ...

I have to admit, most people are familiar with medical transcription but are absolutely clueless about general transcription. It’s not hard to see why that is, as medical transcription plays a very important role in the healthcare industry. Without medical transcription, a patient’s medical record would be almost barren to say the least.

I spent about five years working as a medical transcriptionist before venturing into general transcription. I may delve into the whys of my transition into providing general transcription services in a future post. It’s such a long and tedious story. But back to the subject at hand…

General transcription usually falls into four specialties:

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