They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. So today, for your viewing enjoyment, here’s a picture of this blog. The image comes courtesy of Wordle, a Website that creates word clouds from text that you give it, or in this instance, of all of the words I’ve ever written in this blog. You can […]
LinkedIn's Companies directory best tool yet for freelancers
LinkedIn just unwrapped a new feature that may be the social network’s best tool yet for freelance writers – a comprehensive company directory. The Companies feature is a database of LinkedIn’s 26 million members that can be searched by company, geography or industry. Freelancers can use it to look up editors at umpteen publishers of […]
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 – 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 […]
Getting organized doesn't have to hurt
Want to know the secret to organizing your computer files? You don’t have to. Thanks to e-mail programs, online backup, software add-ons, and search tools like Google Desktop that work as well for freelance writers as they do for big companies, you never have to file anything again. That might not be the best way […]
Around the Web: the changing newsroom, young reporters, Twitter
Where are newspapers headed? It’s hard to say given the varying tone of reporting on the newspaper industry and fate of newspaper reporters. On one hand, Journalism.org’s The Changing Newsroom study describes today’s newspapers as being run by smaller, younger, more tech-savvy staff. But Mark Glaser, writing in his MediaShift column at PBS.org, says papers […]