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IFTTT and how to use it – a screencast
So earlier on in this post I explained that IFTTT saves me a lot of time looking for work opportunities. And people at the conference wanted me to explain more about IFTTT and how to use it in detail. At the same time Malini Devadas and Hilary Cadman challenged us all to try screencasting so I thought this was a perfect way to try and screencast a quick explanation of how to build an applet in IFTTT. I am rather soft spoken and stilll figuring out how to get my headset mic to record me at a louder volume so please use headphones when watching the following video: Unable to…
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Building alliances – a panel on organisations working together
So I was asked to be on this panel about building alliances which mostly came about because I had previously contacted IPEd with ideas about how IPEd and MEAA could collaborate. The panel consisted of myself, representing all things MEAA, Juliet Rogers of the ASA, Sherrey Quinn from ANZSI, Queensland Writers Centre’s CEO Katie Woods and the Rosanna Arciuli from the Copyright Agency. In a nutshell we definitely agreed on several points: It was vital for us to band together on several big theme issues because there was power in numbers no matter which organisation spearheaded the issue and campaign. Such big theme issues that we cared about were copyright…
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Screencasting for editors by Malini Devadas and Hilary Cadman
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a session on screencasting. I have screencast before using different software programs and edited videos for Youtube. And I was a bit puzzled as to how all this could be used by an editor for the purposes of editing. Or as part of a business. Part One of the presentation was telling us what screencasting was. And what is wasn’t. Screencasting is basically like taking a screenshot but instead of an image, ending up with video as the result. Video of whatever may be on your screen at that time. I am aware of people using screencasting for gaming purposes to showcase…
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Evolving tools for digital publications: Stephen White’s presentation at IPEd 2017
This session was really eye opening. Stephen started with the question of what exactly constituted a digital publication. What is a digital publication? He urged us to think beyond text alone on a page. Digital publications can include maps, atlases and other interactive works online or offline. But there is a problem with editing such works. While the tools to create and deliver such works exist, there often are no simple functions built into the tools for the ease of editing the information in the work. Information within the works has to be pulled out, edited in other software and pieced back into the work, looked at in context with…
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Mentoring writers as an editor and writer
This blog post is intended to be a summary and cheat sheet on my part of the mentoring panel on 15 Sept 2017 at the IPEd 2017 Conference in Brisbane. Proceedings will be published online by the conference organisers so you can always check those out for more information but here are my tips, tricks and my experiences of mentoring writers as opposed to mentoring editors. First, a definition of mentoring and what I mean by it: I don’t mean actively editing a writer’s work but more reading it and discussing how they go about developing the story, how they go through the process and if it’s a business/practice related…
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Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship 2017 Report – Annabel Blay
Every two years, one lucky editor gets to go on an all expenses paid research trip to work with publishers in the US as part of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship and this past year it was Annabel Blay. Part of the Fellowship involves speaking at the next IPEd Conference on what the outcome of the research was and presenting a report to IPEd that is made available to all members and the public. Annabel Blay wanted to see what the role of the editor was in commercial fiction in the US and compare it to the role in Australia. In point form below are some of the things she…
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Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017
I’m not necessarily going to write these notes out in order but here is a quick run down of my bootstrapping for a freelancing business. Use tech to bring freelancing work to you: I find that my work comes through being the first person to email someone as soon as an opportunity comes up. I also find it useful to work across time zones. So how do you bootstrap this? And for free? Facebook groups: figure out which group has the most posts for the sort of work you want to do popping up and change its settings so that you are notified by Facebook of new posts popping up.…
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IPEd 2017: Workshops, whirlwinds and welcome
Today is sort of the first day of the IPEd 2017 conference. Sort of but not quite. There are lots of things that have evolved into traditions over the years with this conference. One of them is the running of workshops the day before the conference actually starts. So today there were workshops on marketing and freelancing and technical aspects of editing. From all accounts they were wonderful – unfortunately I didn’t get to attend any this time around. But I needed that time. I had landed in Brisbane sans business cards. And so after brunch committments, I had to have a catch up meeting with fellow IPEd 2017 panelists…
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IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?
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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Watch “Emily Paull in conversation with Liz Byrski” on YouTube
A week or so ago, I filmed this video for Westbooks of their Q & A session with author Liz Byrski. Find out about her latest book The Woman Next Door and her writing routine as she gets interviewed by Emily Paull.
