Archive for the 10th anniversary Category

Year 9: the power of networking Dorota and Mark never liked networking. As simple as that. Despite knowing the old business truth that networking is power, we simply did not enjoy it and felt very proud that we managed to build a well-working company without any artificial networking strategies. Mark never had any social media profiles apart from basic on ResearchGate, Dorota had her FB account but only for close friends. With the COVID-19 lockdowns going on in 2020 and 2021, something changed. All meetings with key clients were moved online and somehow – in all its convenience – something was missing. So when Dorota read about the new initiative in the translation community – POLOT – where the language service providers decided to create a new space for the exchange of thoughts and experiences, she gladly joined it. She knew most of the founding members as they were regular

Year 8:  ONLINE goes even more online! COVID-19, lockdown! Everybody remembers the time that the world stood still. For a while it definitely did. We got covered in masks, stopped talking, touching, going out. We all got imprisoned at homes – which meant offices, schools, all life was moved ONLINE. For many it was a real scare- what will happen now? How to work, how to live? For us…when it comes to MD Online, we did not notice such a big impact. We had developed as a truly online company, we had all systems in place. The only difference was dealing with children staying home due to online school, the same for many of our employees. This change came with their partners taking the space in order to work online too. Despite the fact that we didn’t feel obvious organisational changes we did notice a clear decrease in the number