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Comstock's Magazine
Feeling all alone in your freelance world? We get it. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
“Freelance isolation” is a real thing. Just ask any freelancer or solopreneur. It happens to real freelancers in real time, there’s no way around it. But with 55 million other freelancers across the U.S., including an ever-growing community of us right here in the greater Sacramento area, there are plenty of ways to overcome feelings of solitude in your everyday life of running a business, solo.
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Complete Music Update
Some PRs will tell you that you can place too much importance on the good old press release when contacting journalists, editors and DJs. A personalized email or sneaky phone call to an existing trusted contact will usually achieve so much more.
Though with hundreds of writers, editors and bloggers out there, inevitably sometimes you are going to want to send out a press release to your whole database, and even when you have a productive phone conversation with a media contact, they are probably going to want key information in writing.
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The Huffington Post
For the past few months I’ve contacted countless writers from websites like Inc, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and my home site, The Huffington Post, to get their input on what makes a great headline. In the broader sense, I also want to know what makes some articles go viral on social media while others get left on the homepage, collecting dust.
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AroundtheO
The shooting at Roseburg’s Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1 ended with 10 deceased and seven injured — the event is Oregon’s deadliest mass shooting.
On that same morning, UO School of Journalism and Communication educators Lori Shontz and Nicole Dahmen were participating in the Experience Engagement conference when they heard the devastating news. As they discussed the relationship between journalism and the community, reporters from Eugene and around the country were preparing to cover the story in Roseburg. By the time they had heard the president’s address to the nation, during which he referred to both America’s mass shootings and their media coverage as becoming “routine,” Shontz and Dahmen decided that they wanted to help — not only the victims and their communities, but the journalists who cover tragedies.
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Business 2 Community
Google receives over 3.3 billion searches every day, from people who want answers to questions and problems that they have. But rather than just any old answers search engines need to provide the most relevant, useful, and trustworthy answers. To do this they use spiders to crawl web pages and figure out what each page is about and then rank them.
And that’s why having a good knowledge of SEO is crucial when it comes to copywriting for web pages and blog posts.
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SHRM
On Oct. 27, the New York City Council approved a bill that would establish protections for freelance workers. It is expected that Mayor Bill de Blasio will sign the bill into law in the near future.
The bill, entitled "Establishing Protections For Freelance Workers," defines a freelance worker as a single person, or an entity composed of no more than one person that is retained as an independent contractor to perform services in exchange for compensation.
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USA Today
Move over Upwork, Fiverr, Craigslist and, well, good old Internet stalking. There’s a relatively new tool that’s entered the U.S. freelance workforce, powered by one of the biggest professional social networks available — LinkedIn.
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Poynter.
Journalists tend to interview white people more than they interview non-white people, according to a report published by Pew Research Center.
The survey shows that whites reported being interviewed 10 percent more than non-whites. Those with college degrees reported being interviewed 13 percent more than those without college degrees, and people with high school degrees were half as likely as college graduates to be interviewed.
White men reported being interviewed by local journalists 6 percent more than white women. This gender gap, however, disappears among men and women of all races.
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