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ASJA
Our 2018 ASJA Writing Awards are open for entries, now through 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1. Sort through your stories, essays and personal blog posts published last year. Pick out your best — the ones that make you proud — then consult the list of writing award categories for the best fit. Fill out the entry form, and, done! See the Awards rules here. For descriptions of the awards categories, please click here.
PS: Tell your writer friends that if they apply now for membership, they’ll be eligible for all the awards, not just those open to the public. (Sure, it’s generating your own competition. But hey, a good deed creates good karma!)
ASJA
Client Connections is an extremely valuable professional members-only program offered at ASJA Austin on Saturday, Feb 3.
At this highly focused networking event, editors, literary agents, and professional members sit down for nine-minute meet-and-greets to learn more about how they can work together. See a full list of clients here, including AAA's Texas Journey, American Heart Association, CreditCards.com and Texas Highways Magazine.
Mark your calendars! Registration for the Client Connections lottery will be open between Jan. 15-19.
Be sure to read the FAQs if this is your first time participating.
Mark your calendars! Registration for the Client Connections lottery will be open to professional members between Jan. 15-19.
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Start your new year with an Om, or, in this case, with some thoughts on using mindfulness to create the best writing possible. Amy Hertz, a 30-year student of Tibetan Buddhism, will be hosting a special pre-conference session on mindfulness that is open to all attendees at Write in the Heart of Texas in Austin on Saturday, Feb. 3.
In addition to teaching meditation and Buddhist workshops and coaching clients on crafting effective messaging, she consults with authors, corporations and thought leaders on same. She sat down with ASJA Confidential to answer a few questions ... and raise a few more.
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Feb. 8 is your chance to pitch American Way, the inflight magazine for American Airlines.
Virtual Pitch Slams (VPS) are one-hour interactive phone conference calls during which a moderator hosts a client, who outlines what his/her outlet is looking for from freelance writers. Then, ASJA Professional members give live pitches by telephone, followed by constructive feedback on each story idea.
ASJA Professional members can sign up on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Thursday, Jan. 25 at noon Eastern to get one of the 15 pitching slots. The sign up link will be here. Due to technical limitations, professional and associate members can no longer sign up just to listen; VPS will also be recorded and accessible via ASJA’s website shortly after the event.
Be sure to read the VPS FAQs here for more information.
ASJA
If you’re planning on flying to Austin for Write in the Heart of Texas on Saturday, Feb. 3 now is the time to get your tickets! Delta Airlines is offering a discount: Just click the “Advanced Search” link on www.delta.com and enter NMRCL in the box that says “Meeting Event Code.” If your flight qualifies for a discount, it will automatically be applied to your search results. To sign up for a great speaker and Client Connections lineup,
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The newest, busiest topics in our members-only online forums
Got To Get You Out of MyLife: Is your personal info on MyLife.com without your consent? How do you opt out without registering with the site? (Join the conversation)
Your Five Minutes of Fame. (It ain’t what it used to be.) For ASJA Confidential: Would you take editing or writing tests to land assignments? If so — or no — Sandra Gurvis would like to hear from you: sjgurvis@gmail.com. (Join the conversation)
Here’s an idea! Can members receive forum digests daily or weekly? (Join the conversation)
Started in 2015, the database settlement discussion continues: (Join the conversation)
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS: This is the place to go for links to new freelance gigs. When you see work opportunities, please share them in this forum — it's a group effort.
Log in daily to see the latest discussions and check out tips on making the most of the forums. Remember, you must log in to the forums in addition to logging in to the members-only side of the ASJA website.
NIHCM Foundation
The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Awards recognizes excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy. The prize is $10,000 and the entry deadline is Feb. 16, 2018. Entries must originally have been published in 2017.
For more information and online entry, visit www.nihcm.org/awards/print-journalism-awards
National Press Foundation
First Amendment webinar will cover the origins and evolution of the First Amendment, from James Madison’s role to court rulings that shaped its meaning to its critical significance to journalism today.
Led by Stephen Wermiel, professor, American University Washington College of Law, and Lata Nott, executive director, Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center. This webinar is free and you can register here.
The Association for Garden Communicators
Do you have a topic aimed at professional writers and building their skills and their businesses? GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators has opened their call for speaker proposals for their 70th Annual Conference & Expo (#GWA2018) in Chicago, IL, Aug. 13-16, and is looking for informative and interesting topics covering writing, business, publishing, social media and much more. Whether you are a garden communicator or just a professional writer, all proposals are welcome from GWA members and non-members alike. Deadline: Jan. 31. Learn more here.
In the communication industries of today, change is the new normal. This survey is designed to examine the roles and status of communication professionals, including the types of positions they hold, the role mentoring has played in their careers and their access to management opportunities in all of the major communication industries.
This study and second national survey about the role and status of women and men in the communication industries, is being conducted by the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in the College of Communication, Architecture & the Arts at Florida International University.
The 2017 survey is being distributed to leading professional associations in newspaper, magazine, online and broadcast journalism; advertising, and public relations. The survey was first administered in 2015 — the first time in at least a decade that all of these industries were being surveyed at the same time. This survey replicates the first survey.
The Kopenhaver Center will release the results of this study in early 2018 and publish them as well on its Kopenhaver Center website. Results also will be sent to the corresponding professional organizations that participated in this study.
Your participation is voluntary, and your responses are anonymous. The survey should take you no more than 20 minutes to complete.
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Lillian A. Abreu at the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, at labreu@fiu.edu or 305-919-4065
Writer's Digest
Writing your life story sounds easy. After all, you know your life better than anyone else. In fact you know lots of things, way too many things to ever get it all on paper. That’s a relief. But what do you write? Where do you begin?
Here’s a process to get you kick-started on your own life story. Answer the following 10 questions, and the answers to the writing prompts will be the framework to your story.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
I love to ideate.
When it comes to setting business goals, whether for an entire year or a shorter time span, I could spend hours each day dreaming up ideas I’d love to turn into reality. However, a business can’t thrive on goals alone. Thoughts need to be nurtured into actions, and learning how to set effective goals is integral to making that happen. But where do you start?
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Business 2 Community
So, you finally decided to up your writing game; you better make sure you’re equipped for the job.
As a freelance writer and content marketer myself, I can guarantee that you need more than just grammar and spelling accuracy. After all, the writing task is but a small part of this field. You also have a brand to maintain, leads to pursue, clients to keep happy, and a heavy workload that you need to shoulder all by yourself.
Most — if not all — of these can be handled through your official online website. And in this post, you’ll learn all about the most important WordPress plugins you can use.
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Forbes
Freelancing is no longer associated with doing minimum wage gigs while in between "real" jobs. For many young professionals, it's a conscious career route with 76 percent of people doing it by choice, rather than need. The perks of freelancing certainly are plentiful. However, one aspect often remains in the gray area — the compensation.
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