Category: editor

Social Media – the #HireMe #FireMe water-cooler effect

Posted on April 26, 2013 by sjdonaldson

Social Media is a wonderful thing. It allows us to keep in touch with family and friends, and allows us to fill our leisure time with frivolous websites (often for some reason including cats or sloths). The number of hours you can waste in… Continue Reading “Social Media – the #HireMe #FireMe water-cooler effect”

Category: business, editor, freelance, Social Media, Twitter, workTags: freelancing, job, jobhunting, Social Media, Social network, Twitter

When you’re working, but you don’t really think you’re working

Posted on April 12, 2013 by sjdonaldson

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(subtitled: When CPD eats into the wee small hours) It’s all too easy these days to work the work, without actually realising you are working. Work isn’t just about working for clients (although that’s the main aim, obviously), it’s about working for yourself if… Continue Reading “When you’re working, but you don’t really think you’re working”

Category: business, editing, editor, freelance, workTags: burnout, CPD, freelancer, freelancing, Professional development, Small business

So, how come I see errors by editors and proofreaders?

Posted on March 30, 2013 by sjdonaldson

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Ok, so we all know that you go to an editor to work magic with your words, tighten you tables and add pzazz to your paragraphs. But you pop along to a blog, twitter or another piece of writing …and what’s that? A typo!… Continue Reading “So, how come I see errors by editors and proofreaders?”

Category: books, business, editing, editor, proofreadingTags: Errors, mistakes, typo, writing