Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013
    Events,  IPEd 2017

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017 / No Comments

    Yay! I am off to the IPEd conference! And then of course you would ask “Yeah, ok Mari, what does IPEd stand for?” IPED: Institute of Professional Editors. Professional society of editors working either in-house or freelance throughout Australia. Basically, once every two years, somewhere in a state capital, the IPEd conference is set up and run by the local branch of IPEd. In 2013, it was our turn in Perth and yours truly was the IPEd Conference convenor. Yes. There is a video on the about me page. Go watch it. We were cool. In 2015, the IPEd Conference was in Canberra but I could not go. I was…

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  • Perth Diary Articles

    Cricket fever pitching rather feverishly low

    March 26, 2011 / 3 Comments

    It’s not quite the same thing. “Only 0.2% of Australians are watching.”  – Australian cricket fan on Twitter. Mind you, this was prior to the India/Australia match. And I have no idea if the figure is right. But it struck me as odd. Those of you who know me have no doubt been giggling over the status updates I have been making over the past few days relating to cricket. Tidbits of information like the fact that the West Indies have won the Cricket World Cup twice. That it started off in 1979. That sort of thing. It’s not that the Australians don’t like cricket, they do. But for some reason,…

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    Perth Diary is back!

    March 21, 2011
  • Journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism

    Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research

    March 16, 2011 / 2 Comments

    Date published: 15th March 2010 Publication: Science Network WA Editor: Jason Boudville Author: Marisa Wikramanayake Title: Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research Link to full article: Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research

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    Mentoring: the why and the how of doing it

    December 6, 2013

    Salinity threatens freshwater mussels

    September 9, 2010

    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013
  • Projects

    List of Planet Sites To Submit Your RSS Feed To:

    March 19, 2009 / 1 Comment

    In this post, Marisa Wikramanayake lists all the "planets" (RSS feed aggregator sites) that she has found and discusses the benefits of submitting your website's RSS feed to the few that are relevant to your website's topic as a targeted marketing tool. Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance writer and editor, based in Australia.

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    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013

    The final #ipedcon2013 Program!

    April 6, 2013

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