The annual Communication Central conference is back in Rochester, NY, this year, coming up September 27-28, 2013, at the Staybridge Suites hotel, with a great line-up of noted colleagues, including NAIWE president Janice Campbell and other familiar and new names. This year’s conference theme is “Be a Better Freelancer: Marketing Magic and More for Your Business.” This event is a unique opportunity to pick up on tips and insights essential to a successful freelance writing, editing, proofreading or related business. For those seeking intensive hands-on help with with editing work, there is also an Editorial Bootcamp, on September 29, at the same place (separate registration fee).

NAIWE members are eligible for the colleague’s discount on registration!

Hotel rooms are eminently sharable – even a studio unit has both bed and sleep sofa, with a divider for privacy. If you would like to share a room, please free to contact me and I’ll put you in contact with other participants who would like to do so.

If you book your hotel room by phone, be sure to use the direct number in the registration form; dial zero when you hear the voice-mail prompts.

Current info is here: 2013-C-C-Conf-program. More details about speakers and sessions will be at the conference website throughout the coming week:

http://www.communication-central.com/2013/events/2013-conference/

Looking forward to seeing everyone. Please pass the word!

The 2012 Communication Central conference is only a few weeks away: October 12-13 in Baltimore! Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to learn from and meet colleagues with a wealth of information about using editorial tools and crafting a successful freelance business. Details are at:

http://www.communication-central.com/category/conferences/

And don’t forget that NAIWE members get a colleagues’ discount on registration!

2012 C-C Conf Registration Form

It’s Sunday, it’s Mother’s Day, I have deadlines to meet, but … oh, irony … just posted to the SPJ Freelancers Blog about balancing work and family: http://lnkd.in/SztKTy

Let’s talk about this – how do NAIWE members manage that balance?

Colleagues might enjoy – and benefit from – some of my recent published work:

A column on ethics for freelance journalists in Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ):

http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/publication/?i=98521 (go to p. 32)

My latest marketing column at ImproMed, “Think Like Your Clients to Make Marketing More Effective,” which is aimed at veterinarians but is appropriate to independent writers and editors as well:

http://www.impromed.com/newsletter/article.aspx?e=419625&a=394

A column for the SPJ blog on getting started in freelancing:

http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/freelance/2011/09/05/ruth-e-thaler-carter-how-i-got-started-freelancing/

Registration is open for “Editorial Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century,” the 6th Annual Communication Central “Build Your Business” Conference, to be held Friday, September 30–Saturday, October 1, 2011, in Baltimore, MD. NAIWE members are eligible for a discount on registration!

Speakers include Jack Lyon, Rich Adin, Erin Brenner, Geoff Hart, Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, Richard Peabody, NAIWE member Ruth E. Thaler-Carter and more. A great opportunity to meet, network with and learn from experts in all aspects of editorial freelancing!

Details and registration form at:
www.communication-central.com