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Save-the-Date for the 46th Annual 2017 ASJA Conference – Pivot. Publish. Prosper. Join us for the ASJA conference in New York at the Roosevelt Hotel May 5-6 with a stellar lineup of speakers including keynote speaker Andrea King Collier, a multimedia journalist, essayist and author who has been on a full-time freelance path for over 25 years. Registration opens next week. Stay tuned for details. Click here for speakers.
By Sherry Beck Paprocki
Content Marketing World has convinced me that big data will change the way content is written. Fortunately for ASJA members who are flexible, there is still plenty of work available. Being someone who pivots between traditional journalism and customized content, I’m feeling a need for balance. Having just returned from CMW, I witnessed both a dire need for writers specializing in tech — congratulations to tech writers here — and an astonishing realization that the future is now. There are digital companies clearly trying to replace the creative process of writing. And they have analytics and experts presenting on panels that will convince larger corporations, that there is absolutely no need for creativity in the writing of their brands’ stories.
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ASJA
On Thursday, Dec. 21 at 1 p.m. EST, join the Shop Talk conversation. Resolve to use your valuable ASJA membership to make more money in 2017! Discover current services available to members and learn about new initiatives designed to introduce you to income-generating opportunities. In our second annual “state of the organization” review, ASJA President Sherry Paprocki will review 2016 highlights and preview ASJA’s 2017 initiatives, and Board Member Jennifer Goforth Gregory will discuss programs specifically designed to help you make more money. For registration and instructions, click here.
Business 2 Community
Content is still king. No matter how many times you hear that phrase, it’ll still ring true.
Content can persuade people on an issue and it can help people avoid big mistakes. As long as it’s effective.
Regardless of the type of content you write, it’s important to write it well, make it reader-friendly. You don’t write for search engines, you write for people who use them to find your business.
You need to give your readers interesting, engaging, and fun material. And you want them to read all of your text, not just the headlines. And to make this happen you’ll need to understand how to humanize your content.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
Coming from someone who’s moved nine times in her 28 years of life: moving sucks. Especially when you’re a freelance writer moving to a town where you know nobody — and when the place you’re moving to doesn’t have a lot of options to support your career.
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The last foreign reporter living in South Sudan said on Wednesday he had been deported from the war-torn country after a series of articles critical of the government.
In a statement posted on his Twitter account, Justin Lynch, 25, said he was "arrested and deported," without explanation, by the South Sudan National Security Service.
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USA Today
If you’ve ever wished you had one extra day a week to get ahead, the holiday season is your time to shine. While your fellow entrepreneurs, freelancers, and general hustlers are hitting the egg nog hard or jetting off to white-sand beaches, you could be running laps around their “out of office” messages and teeing up for your most successful year yet. Here are some tips for really utilizing the holiday season.
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