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Freelancers and Freelance Work
The
American Society of Indexers
Professional organization of indexers, abstracters, and
database builders. Includes information
for publishers on finding and using freelance indexers.
Editorial
Freelancers Association
(incorporating the Freelance Editorial Association)
The Editorial Freelancers Association is a national, nonprofit,
professional organization of self-employed workers in the publishing
and communications industries. Members are editors, writers,
indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators,
and others. Site includes job list service, newsletter articles,
books for sale, list of organization's seminars and workshops,
membership and chapter information.
Elance
An exchange for freelancers and those who would hired them.
In the site's Writing & Editing Marketplace, publications
can post requests for proposal (RFPs) for freelance projects;
freelancers then submit bids. Freelancers also may post notice
of their services and rates. A tutorial explains how.
Farm
Matches employers with many different types of contractors,
including writers, translators, designers, marketers, and more.
Freeagent.com
Lists contractors who work in traditional media as well as Internet
and new media. Providers of financial services, human resources
assistance, and many other services are listed as well.
Freelance
Success newsletter site
This newsletter for freelance writers. The Web site offers subscribers
the opportunity to include their resumes and specialities in
a searchable
database. Editors can locate writers by keyword, last name
or by simply scrolling through until they see a writer's credentials
that fit the bill.
Guru.com
Project categories on this site include Creative/Media, Finance
and Legal, IT, Management and Strategy, Marketing, Advertising
and Sales, Training and Advice, Web - Business and Operations,
Web - Development and Creative.
Independent
Writers of Chicago
Includes calendar of events; professional standards; hints on
hiring and working with writers; a list of members and their
specialties; useful links for writers.
National
Writers Union
Contains a Job Hotline to help writers and employers find each
other, standard freelance contracts for print and online media;
information on repetitive stress injuries and other health and
safety issues for writers. Also links to its affiliate, the
Cartoonist's
Association.
Newmediary.com
There are no writers listed on this site, which emphasizes on
information technology projects, but it does cover useful areas
such as web content, web hosting, public relations, and training.
It includes both free and paid-listing options.
Rfpmarket.com
Site lists requests for proposals (RFPs) for projects such as
writing, editing, Internet services, marketing, advertising,
and training, among others.
Smarterwork.com
Lists Internet service providers, web design contractors, freelance
writers and translators, and more.
Society
for Technical Communication
Society members include writers, editors, illustrators, printers,
publishers, educators, students, engineers, and scientists.
Both national and chapter sites include permanent and contract
job listings.
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