Michelle Vranizan Rafter is a reporter and blogger covering technology, workplace issues, business and the media.
Rafter is a regular contributor to Inc. magazine’s tech Website, IncTechnology.com, Conde Nast Portfolio.com, CBSinteractive’s MoneyWatch.com and Oregon Business and other national business and trade publications.
She’s also a contributing editor at Crain Communication’s award-winning HR industry magazine, Workforce Management, following recruiting, HR IT, social networking, benefits, training, outsourcing and workplace ethics.
Rafter has written for Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Industry Standard, Internet World, CNET and other business and trade publications. She was previously on staff at the Orange County Register, where she helped start the paper’s tech industry and personal technology coverage.
In December 2007, Rafter started WordCount: Freelancing in the Digital Age, a blog about freelancing and new media.
Rafter is a member of the Online News Association. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
Reach her at:
Email: michellerafter (at) comcast.net
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/michellerafter
Twitter: @michellerafter
Hi Michelle. I found your blog through Google Alerts, though the specific link is gone. Good stuff!
Sounds as though we’ve done many of the same things, (including writing about RFID) though I’m primariy a speechwriter. My blog is at http://wordtales.typepad.com in case you’d like to take a look.
Cheers
Jean Gogolin
Hey Michelle: i fondly remember your stories for the LA TIMES – and happened to read your great profile of the wonderful Mr. Burmeister – I had a Portland-based story idea for you – please contact me at harry.medved@fandango.com – best, Harry
Hello Michelle,
Great site! I found this site very helpful and very interesting.
Keep writing!
Regards,
Apple
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hi, Michelle. Do you accept advertisements in your blog? If so how much do you charge for them?
Thanks.
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Yours is a wonderful site. I’d started a rather lame attempt at a blog for freelancers, but yours is so thorough and engaging that I’m taking mine down. Congratulations on a really first-rate blog.
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Hi Michelle,
Great blog and advice for freelancers!
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Thanks Dan – but please reconsider your decision to take your blog down! For all the reasons why, please read this:
http://michellerafter.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/dear-writer-please-dont-stop-blogging/
Michelle