Canada’s meeting place for freelance writers and creators

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Once a week, we gather stories about the media business, journalism, writing, publishing, and freelancing—with a Canadian focus—and share them in Off the Wire. Who needs a water cooler?

From Canada:

From the U.S. and beyond: This week on Story Board:
  • Do What You Love? Value Your Work.: Happy Valentine’s Day, freelancers! On this day of homage to all things amorous, let’s take a minute to think about love of our work. There was a brilliant article in Jacobin Magazine last month that scrutinized the popular mantra ”Do What You Love” — advice that’s been offered to job seekers by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs...
  • The Born Freelancer on Email Self-Marketing: I still use old-school email to promote myself to potential new clients as well as for keeping in touch with select past clients. They appear as friendly, newsy “updates” but of course their real purpose is to facilitate future work...
  • Freelance Friday #1, Storified: Last Friday was the CMG's first Freelance Friday workshop in Toronto. It focused on taxes for freelancers and featured a presentation from the dynamic Sunny Widerman, tax preparer and advisor at Personal Tax Advisors in Toronto...
 

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COMMENTS

Heather van der Hoop February 20, 2014 - 9:03 AM

Thanks for sharing our post! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Heather
Assistant Editor
The Write Life

editor February 20, 2014 - 9:39 AM

It’s a great post… just the kind of reminder freelancers need in the middle of winter!

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