Michelle Rafter

The Future of Freelancing

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Best of WordCount – Make editors fight over you

While I’m on vacation this week, I’ll be rerunning some of the best WordCount posts of the year. Look for new posts, including my predictions for the top digital media personalities to watch in 2009, starting January 5. Happy New Year! Today’s reruns: Make yourself so irresistible editors will fight over you. What editors want […]

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Best of WordCount – LinkedIn tips for writers

While I’m on vacation this week, I’ll be rerunning some of the best WordCount posts of the year. Watch for new posts, including my predictions for the top digital media personalities to watch in 2009, starting January 5. Happy New Year! Today’s reruns: how writers can use LinkedIn, the business social network. The secret to […]

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MIT Mgt. Review on "nanobots" and why freelancers should care

MIT Sloan Management Review just published this story about employees who  work well outside of the office and used the term “nanobots” to describe them: There’s a new class of worker out there: Nearly Autonomous, Not in the Office, doing Business in their Own Time Staff. Or nanobots, for short. Empowered by their mobile devices […]

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In Portland, the big story is snow

The weather here has turned from major distraction to major story. In Portland, snow of any kind is a rarity and snow before Christmas just doesn’t happen all that often. The city’s at sea level, locked between the coastal mountain range and the Cascades, so conditions have to be just right for the stuff coming […]

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Freelancers' business wish list for 2009

If you’re going to spend money on your writing business in 2009, what’s at the top of your wish list? That’s the question I posed to writers on LinkedIn a couple weeks ago. The answers I got were as varied as the writing businesses of the people who replied. Many freelance writers are upgrading faster […]