This year has been a roller coaster ride. For those of you who missed it, I maintained FWJ while working full time as a community manager, lost the full time gig thanks to budget cuts, and have to battle negativity on a regular basis for standing by a sponsor I absolutely believe in. A few people even tried to buy FWJ, but we weren’t having it. I also welcomed some wonderful new members to the FWJ community and watched our traffic make a nice steady rise. I’ve made many new freelance writing friends both on and offline, and the revenue [Read more…]

Awesomeness and news from around the web: The BlogWorld and New Media Expo is less than two weeks away. There’s still time to buy a ticket and book a room. BWE cut deals with several hotels for less than $100 per night. This is the biggest and best blogging and social media conference and I recommend anyone who is serious about succeeding as a blogger attend. Chris Brogan addresses a topic near and dear to my heart. I’m sure Chris gets way more email than I do here, but it seems he has the same issues regarding weeding through the [Read more…]

I took some time yesterday and this morning to do something I haven’t had the chance to do in a very long time: read blogs.  Here’s some awesomeness from around the blogosphere: Newslancers is a social networking job search site for journalists, and it’s now accepting registrants for their beta launch. According to FWJ community member, Ed Sutherland, this site is speficially geared towards journalists and only journalists – including editors. Who qualifies as a journalist? “Anyone who earns the majority of their income writing sourced non-fiction or creates media for news purposes. This means writers and editors, bloggers and [Read more…]

I’m remembering back in the day when I used to be able to stoke up my feed reader and check out my favorite blogs each morning with my first cup of coffee. Good times. Nowadays, I have so many favorite blogs it’s impossible to get them all in during a cup of coffee’s worth of time. I’d need several pots brewing and even that wouldn’t be enough. Having a full time job also took me away from my blog reading, though I’m happy to report I have a lot more time on my hands. Flexibility rocks, and with it comes [Read more…]

Happy Mother’s Day. I don’t plan on spending much time on my laptop today, but I’m still taking some time to read my feeds. This is one of my favorite weekend things to do, I wish I had more time to read during the week! Here’s what I’m reading this weekend: 5 Ways to Earn Money Blogging at ABC Technology Better Opportunities for Paid Bloggers at  BlogWorld Expo Blog Stop Reading, Start Doing at Blogging Tips Are the Proofreading Police Watching You? at Copyblogger (They sure are, and I have the mail to prove it! – Deb) 8 Things I [Read more…]

Once upon a time, my weekly link love posts were an anticipated event. After a while however, I was so busy building up someone else’s brand, I began forgetting about my own. Weekend Link Love fell by the wayside. As a result, the FWJ community began missing out on some really good stuff. Today, I’m happy to bring you some terrific weekend link love. I can’t promise this every weekend (yet), but I can promise I’m back and FWJ is on the front burner once again. Here’s what I’m reading this weekend: Top 10 Signs You Are Not Cut Out [Read more…]