Tweeting your way to job leads
Pamela Findling (@pfindling) gave a presentation at last evening’s EAC-BC monthly meeting about how to use Twitter to find writing and editing work. The key is to exploit the medium’s uniquely informal...
View ArticlePublishers: Are you maximizing the marketing capacity of your freelancers?
As I put together my post last week on the care and feeding of freelancers, I began to wonder why gestures like inviting freelancers to events and sending them awards news weren’t standard in the...
View ArticleISC Conference 2012, Day 2—What is the future of indexing?
Cheryl Landes is a technical writer and indexer who sees a changing role for indexers—one that is rife with possibilities. Today people are consuming content in four main ways: through print, on...
View ArticleLouise Spiteri—User-generated metadata: boon or bust for indexing and...
Louise Spiteri is the director of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, and she spoke at the ISC conference about social tagging and folksonomies. As a trained cataloguer,...
View ArticleEditors Canada: update on national happenings (Editors BC meeting)
Margaret Shaw, Editors Canada’s regional director of Western Canada’s branches and twigs, attended her first meeting as a member of the National Executive Council (NEC) in September, and at yesterday’s...
View ArticleCommunication Convergence 2015
Building on last year’s inaugural event, Cheryl Stephens and Kate Harrison Whiteside put together a full day of sessions at Communication Convergence 2015, most of them looking at the ways technology...
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