Just Okay is Not Okay

Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 9 – 10:30 a.m. (.15 CEUs)
Presenter: Anissa Nierenberger
CEUs: LASC 1.5 hours/.15 NCRA CEUs pending. LACCRA will report attendance and submit reimbursement paperwork so long as paperwork is completed and submitted to LACCRA immediately following the seminar. PLEASE NOTE: attendees are still required to self-report attendance to the LASC as well. LACCRA will report your attendance to NCRA as long as your NCRA number was provided during registration.
Registration: Please click here to register. $65 Members, $95 Nonmembers, $25 Students

Description:
While realtime does not mean perfection, how do you know if your realtime measures up as a sellable product? Let’s look beyond the gray and examine concrete, real-world examples of what is great, good, and just okay. Just because you can read through it, doesn’t mean that your clients can. Anissa will debunk untranslate rate myths and other misperceptions about quality realtime. She’ll also provide solutions to common stacking, easy brief ideas, and why you should be editing in a way that school never taught you! If you’ve felt “in the dark” regarding realtime standards, you won’t want to miss this presentation!

Learning Objectives: Applies to NCRA 3.02
1. Identify the benefits of editing properly and how this, alone, can improve realtime
2. Learn how to figure your TAR (total accuracy ratio) and see how this can help you pass the CRR
3. Discover the standard of realtime that is required to represent yourselfyou’re your profession

About the Presenter:
Anissa Nierenberger has pursued her passion for captioning in three distinct areas; her proprietary software Dictionary Jumpstart, her captioning company Captionique, and as a coach and trainer in her educational programs. Anissa discovered stenography when she was just 14 years old after spending a career day with a court reporter in court. Determined to become a stenographer, she pursued her goal and within a year of graduation from court reporting school, she began captioning for television. She’s captioned local newscasts in numerous U.S. markets and Canada; NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL games; state legislature sessions, tech company events, religious conventions, and more recently she’s done media captioning.

In 2000, Anissa founded Dictionary Jumpstart, a realtime dictionary-building software that has helped thousands of reporters improve their dictionaries and allowed them to explore other areas of reporting, including broadcast captioning and CART captioning. As an author, Anissa has also published several articles as well as books that include the Drug Speller; Simple Syllables; Simpler Syllables; A Jump Back in Time, and most recently, Fantabulous Families.

Anissa is a past President of MAPCR (Michigan Association of Professional Court Reporters) and has been a member of NCRA (National Court Reporters Association) for over 25 years. She has presented seminars on realtime, captioning, dictionary building, and Dictionary Jumpstart to state and national associations.