Freelance Camp

Pro Bono Freelancing: Bonus Bylines or a Bust?

By Erin Dalpini

Whether early on in your writing career or later down the line, if you’re good at what you do and people begin to notice, it’s likely the time will come when you’ll be faced with this dilemma: to pro bono or not to pro bono?

That [...]

Freelance Camp PRO San Francisco: Saturday, June 5

Due to popular demand, the organizers of Freelance Camp San Francisco 2010 have created a new sub-brand, Freelance Camp PRO. This “unconference” will target attendees who have been running a freelance business full time for a year or more. The event will be smaller (+/- 100), topics more advanced, and participation is expected to be [...]

Radio Interview: Upcoming Freelance Camp PRO

Freelancer Forum interviewed Rebecca Brian, Shane Pearlman, and Jeremy Neuner about Freelance Camp PRO and the movement that is sweeping the nation.

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Upcoming Freelance Conference at Stanford

A two day conference called The Future of Freelancing: Redefining Journalism, Reinventing Yourself, produced by the John S. Knight Fellowships program will be held at Stanford on June 18-19.  The  conference is designed to help experienced journalists explore their evolving careers and stay inspired to do their best work.
Editors from the [...]

How to make the right decision

From chaos and confusion to peace and sanity
This Brown Bag Lunch focused on decision making and was made possible by Lydia Snider, a certified performance and family coach based out of Santa Cruz.  She began by quoting someone who once said “the only difference between regular and successful people is [...]

BBL 1 Public Speaking for Dummies: Expert Public Speaking Made Simple

BBL 1 Public Speaking for Dummies: Expert Public Speaking Made Simple
Noel Murphy’s “The Speaker’s Gym”
This brown bag lunch featured Noel Murphy, bio.
We participated in a session of the Speaker’s Gym which was designed to help people develop their public speaking skills.
Noel broke down the speech into three main parts: (make it a paragraph)
1.Ground (Disconnecting from [...]

Don’t Let It Fester

How to keep disputes with customers, suppliers, and employees from sidetracking your business
This brown bag brought Allan and Jim Kass from the Santa Cruz Mediation Group to NextSpace to talk about how to solve client or partner relationships that may get in the way of running your business.
Is a current issue with a customer [...]

Dropped: Independent Contractor Withholding

Dear Coalition Opposing Independent Contractor Withholding:
You made a difference! Thank you!

We are pleased to report the Legislature temporarily shelved the independent contractor withholding proposal, and it is no longer part of the current Senate budget package. We believe this is due in large part to the efforts of this coalition! The budget, however, will continue to [...]

Proposal makes businesses tax collectors

Call to Action: Proposal makes businesses tax collectors and forces small biz to make interest-free loans to state.
California continues to have a severe budget crisis – $20 billion in the hole. Unfortunately, one of the solutions being proposed in Sacramento is yet another budget gimmick – an onerous 3% independent contractor withholding mandate on businesses [...]