Use WordPress enhanced stats to improve your writing blog
The business reporter in me loves numbers, so I was pretty jazzed a couple weeks ago when I was deciding how to pre-write a bunch of blog posts to cover my vacation and noticed some statistics on WordPress.com I hadn’t seen before. It wasn’t just me. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the hosted [...]
Online News Association job fair, grants, NFL player access
Here’s some interesting tidbits from the Online News Association, one of the biggest groups for journalists and freelance writers who work online. * The finalists for this year’s Online Journalism Awards will be announced at the ONA’s annual conference on Sept. 13 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. Here is the complete list of [...]
Keeping sources on the subject in short phone interviews
You’re on deadline and only have 15 minutes with a source before you need to hang up and move onto another previously scheduled phone interview. But your source wants to talk and talk and talk. And not necessarily about the matter at hand. Sound familiar? If you’ve written for any length of time, you’ve run [...]
5 reasons why freelancers need to take vacations
Don’t underestimate the power of a good vacation. I just got back from one and the mental break was as beneficial as the extra physical activity I did while I was gone. It’s hard for freelancers to get away. When we don’t work, money doesn’t come in. It’s especially hard to turn down projects in [...]
Best of WordCount recap
In case you missed it, while I was on vacation last week, I ran some of the most popular posts from WordCount’s back issues. Take a look: Online resources for writers – Help navigating the world of Web-based resources for writers, including top Web 2.0 tools, what writers should know about SEO and how to [...]
Best of WordCount: Career development for freelancers
WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation, so I’m rerunning some of WordCount’s most popular posts ever on a variety of topics. Today: Career development for freelancers Freelancers’ strategies for prospering in bad times – Suggestions from established freelancers with a variety of backgrounds and business plans, including tips for maintaining [...]
Best of WordCount: Best blogs for writers
WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation, so I’m rerunning some popular posts on a variety of topics. Today: Best blogs for writers Best blogs for writers – WordCount’s most popular post ever – more than 1,000 page views – lists a variety of blogs written by and for freelance writers [...]
Best of WordCount: Tips to improve your writing
WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation, so I’m rerunning some of my most popular posts. Today’s topic: Tips For Improving Your Writing 25 tips for better freelance writing – Never go into an interview cold. Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions. Show, don’t tell. Use active verbs. Read the [...]
Best of WordCount – Blogging basics for writers
WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation, so I’m rerunning some of my most popular posts. Today: Blogging Basics for Writers 6 simple steps for starting your freelance writing blog – Includes information on picking a topic, choosing software, committing to regular postings and more. How to write great freelance blog [...]
Best of WordCount – Online resources for freelance writers
WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation. For the next five days, I’m rerunning popular posts on a variety of topics. Today’s topic: Online resources for freelance writers: What freelance writers should know about SEO – Sounds tricky, but search engine optimization, or SEO, is simply understanding how to tag articles [...]
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