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By Joanne Cleaver
How many times has a client asked you if you could take on a project that requires skills you have been picking up only in the course of work? I've had clients ask me to ghostwrite executive blogs, outline points for an investor pitch, write short speeches, and write video scripts. Did I know what I was doing? I do now.
I took the work based on my knowledge of the content, the client, and the audience, but it would have been great to have had specific training for the various formats that clients increasingly request. That's the philosophy driving a new series of workshops designed by the ASJA Educational Foundation.
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Learn about ASJA’s plans for the future, its financial overview and more by joining ASJA’s State of the Association webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern on July 18. Pre-register for the event here.
“We want to give ASJA members an overview of activities underway within the organization and a preview of the exciting calendar of events planned for fiscal 2018,” says Sherry Beck Paprocki, ASJA President. “With ASJA’s 2018 fiscal year beginning July 1, the time is right to review the past and talk about the future.”
Among items on the agenda are: a review of ASJA’s recent financial audit, a membership update, insight about ASJA’s partnership with its association management company, an overview of new programming and advocacy that’s underway, important events during fiscal 2018, as well as activities involving ASJA’s Charitable Trust, which oversees WEAF and the Educational Foundation.
For those unavailable to listen in that day, the webinar will be recorded for later viewing.
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Looking to supplement your freelance writer income with other work? Damon Brown's panel discussion on "side hustles for writers" at the recent ASJA annual conference was a big hit. He'll share with us techniques successful writers are using to diversify their income, build their brands, and make a serious profit. Learn how to apply skills you've acquired as a freelancer and author to a variety of ideas outside of traditional journalism and books.
That’s what we’ll talk about in this month’s “Shop Talk” event.
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Time: 1 pm. Eastern (calculate for your time zone)
Cost: Members — free / Non-members — $19
Register here!
About our guest expert:
Former ASJA Board Member Damon Brown helps potential and current entrepreneurs make their mark without sacrificing themselves. He co-founded the popular platonic connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year, all while being the primary caretaker of his infant first son. He now guides others through his consulting, weekly Inc.com column, and public speaking on platforms such as TED. Damon’s most recent book is The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 24 Smart Secrets to Do More in Less Time, the latest in his best-selling Bite-Sized Entrepreneur series. To join his exclusive better business discussions, click here.
Poynter
Sometimes it takes a village to find the truth — or at least a handful of fact-checking news partners.
Even though journalism is a competitive business, members of the fact-checking community have long reaped the benefits of collaboration — from PolitiFact's formal network of state news affiliates in the United States to informal "factcheckathons" focused on events such as International Women's Day or the 2015 G-20 summit.
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Business 2 Community
By 2020 it is predicted that in the U.S. 40 percent of the workforce will be self-employed or freelance. More and more people are finding ways to earn a living without leaving their homes and without the constraints and normality of being employed by someone else. The freelancer and gig economy is booming right now.
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The WRITER
A true hybrid, the micro-memoir strives to combine the extreme abbreviation of poetry, the narrative tension of fiction, and the truth-telling of creative nonfiction. The form might be considered a subset of the larger category of "flash nonfiction," but it's hard to draw strict lines here, because the recent proliferation of boundary-busting work is accompanied by a proliferation of terms – Anne Carson's "short talks," J. Robert Lennon's "anecdotes," Sarah Manguso's "aphorisms,” James Richardson's "ten-second essays:" all of these could at times be called "micro-memoirs."
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Inc.
Authors are not immune to procrastination, nor to distraction. To write a book requires dedication and a consistent writing schedule, but any author will tell you that the kind of focus needed to finish something as long as a book doesn't come naturally. It's a skill that they have developed over time through continued practice.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
"When was the last time you were dumped?
I've been married for a few years now, so I thought my days of being broken up with were over. However, I neglected to consider how closely my writing career aligned with my fear of rejection."
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