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Birgitt Olsen AE, Oh Yes You Can

 

Address: 9 Richards Road
Willunga SA 5172
Phone: (08) 8557 1062
Mobile: 0431 625 970
Email: birgitto@iprimus.com.au

OH YES YOU CAN offers the following services for web and print media:

Editing
Good editing puts zing into your text. It can make your reader keen, your ideas striking, your points powerful. Yes, editing makes you look good.
Our range of services covers basics such as grammar, syntax and spelling, and structural issues such as logical and persuasive arrangements. Having taken care of those, you’ll find you’ve suddenly raised the feel and appeal of your text too.
 
Writing
If you think writing should work for you, not you for it, then we can help.
Writing good articles, websites, reports, newsletters, advertisements and guidelines, for example, demands specific understanding and skill. We offer writing services for all of the above and more, whether the content is a few words or hundreds of pages.

Translation (German and Afrikaans into English) and localisation
We can translate your general and commercial texts into fluent English, making sure that they’re localised for Australia. Not only that: your translations also benefit from our professional editing and writing skills at no extra cost.

Experience

Freelance:

Private enterprise: Website content editing and writing; sales and promotional material, presentations and reports editing and writing; trade and industry advertising copywriting; newsletter editing and writing; translation of business presentations and newspaper articles.
Government: Editing of good practice guides and primary and secondary school textbooks.

Other:

As manager at an internationally linked food technology company: Editing and writing of reports, presentations, technical documents and magazine and newsletter articles; translation of industrial recipes and processing guidelines.

Qualifications

IPEd Accredited Editor (2011)
Web Site Copywriting I (Search Engine College, Australia, 2011)
Search Engine Optimisation I (Search Engine College, Australia, 2011)
Master of Arts, Translation (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2009) – including editor training
Bachelor of Arts (University of South Africa, 2001)
National Diploma in Public Relations (Technikon Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1989)

Special skills

Website copywriting and content editing, basic search engine optimisation.

Areas of expertise

Business, trade and commerce, the arts (general), food production and technology, hotels and travel, languages.

Computer software capability

Windows:

Word processing (MS Word); spreadsheets (MS Excel); publishing (MS Publisher); presentations (MS PowerPoint).