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As 2015 comes to a close, GWA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of GWA News Clippings a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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CNET
From Feb. 19: As if robots weren't already super-cool, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has built an entire garden out of robots to entice kids to get into programming — particularly girls.
The garden has two functions: an aesthetically appealing enticement to children to learn about programming; and a showcase for the team's latest work in distributed computing.
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Bustle
From July 9: Writing is hard. Finding the inspiration, time, motivation, mood and energy to write is even harder. You're so over calling it "writer's block," and are ready to start feeling inspired to create your next great project. We all know that simply sitting down at the keyboard and putting in effort is the first rule to getting any writing done. Then why is it important to feel inspired?
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GWA
From Oct. 2: The 2015-2016 GWA Board of Directors was announced at the Pasadena symposium. See who your new leaders are for the coming year.
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FishbowlNY
From March 20: Tax season is definitely one of the downsides of the freedom/responsibility equation of the freelance life. For help dealing with the added complexities freelance income induces, we went straight to the source, enlisting the help of four accountants accustomed to working with freelancers. Among the advice we received is that organization is key, whether you're going it along or hiring an accountant.
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Quartz
From July 23: I expend a huge amount of my time and energy writing books and articles and working to keep my company innovative. I've developed an obsession with some of history's most creative minds in the hope that I might learn some tricks to expand my own creative productivity.
Some of the things I've learned are more useful than others, and some are simply too weird to try.
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GWA
From June 25: For more than 25 years, the GWA has conducted an annual awards program for talent and products published or aired in the field of garden communications. We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 GWA Silver Garden Media Awards of Achievement.
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Poynter
From Feb. 5: By Butch Ward: I was 11 years old on the November Friday when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Does anyone else remember what Jackie Kennedy was wearing that day?
A pink suit. Not an important detail at first glance, except that this designer suit bore the bloodstains left behind after the wounded president collapsed into his wife's lap.
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MediaShift
From Aug. 20: When I first started writing, everyone always warned me to stay far, far away from the comments. Perhaps I'm narcissistic — or a glutton for punishment — but I found it nearly impossible to stop myself from checking in. When writing for MMA sites, I'd read through insult after insult written by teenagers living in their parents' basement (our core audience), which was never a pleasant experience.
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Digital Book World
From Aug. 7: Here's a good game to play in an idle moment. Imagine you are starting a new publishing company, with your own money, from scratch today. Whom would you choose to employ on fixed-term contracts, and which external services would you hire in? Focuses the mind, doesn't it?
In response to Emma Barnes' well-intentioned post on the benefits of keeping work in house and not outsourcing, let's be clear about one thing: this particular ship has already sailed.
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PBS
From May 7: For awhile, it probably seemed to some friends and family that Rebecca Faith Heyman had pursued an expensive degree at NYU without any intention of actually using it. She did her undergraduate and graduate degrees there, both in English, and while many of her classmates secured internships at the big publishers and magazines, Heyman spent her summers working service jobs in hotels and restaurants.
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