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Fast Company
People who wind up becoming their own bosses because they have to — after a layoff, say, or to escape a toxic work culture — may be outnumbered by those who start freelancing by choice.
According to the latest study by the Freelancers Union and Upwork, 63% of the freelance workforce (which numbers as many as 55 million strong) reported doing so voluntarily rather than out of necessity, and 79% agreed that it’s better than working a normal job.
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Publishers Weekly
I started my writing career in the early 1980s as a satirical essayist. I wrote a book but was eventually lured away by the crazy money writers make in film and television. A few years ago, having accrued some cash and a Writer's Guild pension, I returned to more literary pursuits. My reentry into the publishing world's atmosphere was staggering. I was the 1950s airplane passenger — accustomed to flying in style — walking onto a flight today and being trampled by earbud-wearing passengers in velour running suits.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Local news is in dire straits. In a quest for profit, publishers have gutted newsrooms and hollowed out coverage of local communities. As the industry struggles to build the business model of the future, it's missing an opportunity to embrace a funding mechanism that can enshrine journalism as a public service: the special service district.
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Evernote
Clutter gets a bad rap. But relatively new research from the University of Minnesota affirms the common justification that messiness encourages creativity. Kathleen Vohs, the scientist and professor who spearheaded the study, first noticed that desk tidiness influences outcomes when she moved office buildings during her Ph.D. studies. Vohs suspected that the new environment was influencing her test subjects, and ended up discovering through research that her hypothesis held weight.
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Recode
It's summer, so lots of people are posting vacation pictures on various social media platforms. I do, too — but not until I'm back to my regular life.
I still log in while traveling; I look at others' posts, comment sometimes; I might even post an occasional article. But I don't post descriptions or pictures of what I did or saw that day, even if I think my friends would enjoy them.
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Recode
Facebook says it wants to help publishers sell subscriptions. But Facebook says it doesn't want a piece of the revenue those subscriptions generate, or any of the data involved in the transaction.
Those details are emerging as Facebook talks to publishers about a subscription tool it wants to launch later this year, in conjunction with its Instant Articles program, where Facebook hosts publishers' articles on its own mobile app.
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TechCrunch
One-third of all link clicks on Facebook already go to its self-hosted Instant Articles. Facebook claims they drive more referral traffic click-for-click because people don't abandon them mid-click as they do with slow-loading mobile websites. Now Facebook is teaming up with Nielsen to prove that individual publishers benefit when they post with the Instant Articles format.
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Did you know money really can grow on trees? Learn how trees cut costs and save energy from arborists at Davey Tree. MORE
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Pink and yellow wildflowers burst from a lush bed of grass hidden from public view for more than a century. Towering trees and snow-capped mountains encircle the wild meadow, beckoning visitors to a largely untouched piece of California's Sierra Nevada.
Conservation groups bought the land in Lower Carpenter Valley north of Lake Tahoe and are opening it for tours. It contains rare carnivorous plants and threatened birds and serves as a migration corridor for other species.
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The Oregonian
When people travel to Portland, Oregon, there are a handful of places that are on their tourist must-list — the stacks at Powell's Books, the line for bacon maple bars at Voodoo Doughnut, and the city's "living room," Pioneer Courthouse Square. Right up there on Portland must-list is the massive International Rose Test Garden at Washington Park, where 4.5 acres are covered with gorgeous blooms.
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Greenhouse Grower
AmericanHort's Production Technology ConferenceDrone at Woodburn Nursery will pack quite a bit of knowledge into two days when attendees converge on Dallas in October. Here's a look at a few can't-miss presentations, along with information on a pre-conference tour that allows you to see technology in action.
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Digiday
The great pivot to video continues. In the past few weeks alone, the publishers that said they were shifting resources to video (and often laying off staff in the process) has included Vice, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated and MTV News. Underpinning all of these moves is an inconvenient truth: Advertisers love digital video more than users. And even ad buyers are wondering if this will pan out.
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Recode
Advertising is the lifeblood of the internet. Ahead of Google's second-quarter earnings, here's a look at the state of the company's ad revenue and how it has grown over the years.
Google parent company Alphabet makes more money from digital ads than any company on the planet — it's expected to make $73.8 billion dollars in net digital ad sales in 2017 after subtracting for traffic acquisition costs, according to internet research firm eMarketer.
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Poynter
Late last year, the San Diego Union-Tribune began a daunting project: Create an almanac for the San Diego metropolitan area, a region that 3.1 million residents call home.
As they began profiling the city's smaller communities (there are lots), journalists at the Union-Tribune realized there was a huge reservoir of information they hadn't tapped yet: Nextdoor.
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GWA
The 69th Annual GWA Conference and Expo is just around the corner! Here are a few things to help make preparing for #GWA2017 much easier!
All events are at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center except the President's Reception for Exhibitors and Sponsors, and the #GWA2017 AfterParty. BNCC is located across the street from the Hyatt Regency and is accessible via covered walkway or by walking across the street.
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GWA
Join garden writers, bloggers, photographers, speakers and communicators from across the world for special events designed to make new connections and reconnect with old friends, including networking events and receptions, including Meet the Authors and Morning Reboot, all culminating with the 2017 Annual Awards & Honors Dinner with Emcee Allan Armitage.
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GWA
CareerNext is a one-day exclusive workshop series taking place in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, Sept. 16. This event is designed for students looking to grow education into stable jobs in the industry, veteran communicators looking to redefine career goals and confident professionals diversifying their toolbox with state-of-the-art media awareness!
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GWA
GWA congratulates the winners of the 2017 Media Awards Silver Medals, a special designation recognizing the top talent in competition categories. These winners will now be entered for judging in the Gold Medal Round, where awards will be given for the best of each award class. Gold Medal winners will be announced during the 2017 Awards & Honors Dinner at the GWA Annual Conference & Expo in Buffalo, N.Y.
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GWA
GWA congratulates recipients of its 2017 Honors, recognizing excellence and service in the green communicators industry. Honorees will be presented their awards during the 2017 Awards & Honors Dinner at the GWA Annual Conference & Expo in Buffalo, New York, on Monday, Aug. 7.
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GWA
Like most folks putting an outdoor event together, I had crossed fingers and toes in hopes that the weather would be perfect for the Iowa Arbors & Botanicals Tour at the Brenton Arboretum in Dallas Center, Iowa, and the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Des Moines, Iowa. Waking up the morning of June 2, I looked outside and breathed a sigh of relief — blue skies, no rain.
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GWA
In the June-July 2017 issue ...
- Sally Cunningham previews one of the private gardens featured on the #GWA2017 Tours
- Tips for first-time #GWA2017 attendees from Carol Michel
- Reflections from GWA President Kirk Brown
- New and returning columns covering: Food with Denise Schreiber and Sustainability with Nancy Taylor Robson
- Overview of publishing contracts with GWA attorney John Hazard
- GWA member profiles on Allen Bush and Teresa Watkins
- Recaps of recent Gro1000 events
- GWA regional, publishing and industry news
- Plus much more!
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