Today is Guest Post Day in the 2nd annual WordCount Blogathon, so give a big WordCount welcome to Tim Beyers, a Colorado freelancer and Motley Fool writer who’s filling in for me here. You’ll find me over on Tim’s blog, The Social Writer, talking about my favorite online hangouts for writers. By Tim Beyers Content […]
WordCount Q&A: Steven Walling, wiki boy wonder
At 21, Steven Walling has accomplished what some writers twice his age are still trying to figure out: how to make a living as a digital freelancer. Despite his youth, Walling took a very old fashioned path to get where he is today. Fresh out of high school, he took whatever paid writing work he […]
Digital media business news recap for week of May 15
The week’s highlights from the freelance world and digital media business: Standing up for writers – Today is the 2nd Annual Writers Worth Day. Lori Widmer, a Valley Forge, Pa., writer, dreamed up the campaign to help writers and other freelancers do a better job negotiating fees and standing up themselves. I’m down with that. […]
Can the techies save the news?
If you think reporters, editors, newspaper pundits, Sam Zell and the Sulzberger family are the only ones worried about the fate of the media business, you haven’t spent a Saturday morning with a room full of geeks. At last weekend’s BarCampPortland III meetup, the assembled developers, programmers and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs were just as concerned […]
News U, Knight Center team up on April 14 social networking Webinar for journalists
UPDATE: Online News Association members receive a $10 discount off the full Webinar price. To access the discount code, go to the Journalists.org Discounts page. Join ONA here. News U. and the Knight Digital Media Center are hosting a Webinar on social networks on Tuesday, April 14, 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. The Webinar, called […]
Social media 101 for small business
I spent Monday afternoon talking to small business owners at the ShopSymposium/09 conference here in Portland. The subject of the panel discussion I participated in: how small business owners can use social media without having it take over their lives. That’s not all the panel discussion covered – to track everything that was mentioned do […]