Speak Schmeak

JUNE 6, 2011

In my post, Speaking from a script doesn't have to sound scripted , I neglected to mention a big red flag that you're sounding stilted and stiff: Missing contractions. As writing is a more formal way to express ourselves, we tend to write without contractions. That's not to say that you can't mix and match contractions with the written-out version of expressions. If you're writing a speech, go through it sentence by sentence and see where you've left out contractions.

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Speak Schmeak

JUNE 6, 2011

In my post, Speaking from a script doesn't have to sound scripted , I neglected to mention a big red flag that you're sounding stilted and stiff: Missing contractions. As writing is a more formal way to express ourselves, we tend to write without contractions. That's not to say that you can't mix and match contractions with the written-out version of expressions. If you're writing a speech, go through it sentence by sentence and see where you've left out contractions.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

What is getting traction is, as indicated in Law.com, the recommendation by some lawyers that those with contract disputes choose mediation. There could be a trend for opting for mediation when there is a contract dispute.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 5, 2020

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 31, 2015

are competing in their bidding with contract workers in low-wage nations like the Philippines. Upwork is the global digital platform where those needing services of freelancers place help-wanted notices and freelancers bid on the project. In the process, freelancers create a formal pitch letter. Sometimes they also have to respond to other questions from the prospect. One attachment is allowed.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 30, 2020

The good news in Massachusetts is that new cases of COVID-19 are down. So are the deaths. But the bad news is that, after three months, those hired as coronavirus contact-tracers are being laid off. Boston Magazine reports that already about 200 have volunteered to be laid off. Other workers are expected to be terminated.    MA was the first state to launch a formal contact-tracing program. Maybe that has been a factor in getting the virus under control.

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Speaker Launcher

JUNE 1, 2017

As a professional speaker, you are constantly vying to win the contract that gets you on the stage and speaking. The post [Podcast] Winning the Million Dollar Training Contract with Greg Schinkel appeared first on Jane Atkinson. As a professional speaker, you are constantly vying to win the contract that gets you on the stage and speaking. How to price your contracts appropriately (and that doesn’t mean being the lowest bidder!). *

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What's obvious is that full-time media employees are vulnerable to job cuts when a property changes hands and contract ones land new opportunities. Connect the dots on this one. Recently, The Maven licensed the rights to Sports Illustrated print and digital editions. The Wall Street Journal reports that it will be eliminating 40 positions and then hiring 200 gig workers to cover sports.    However, this trend might be short-lived. In California, AB-5 became law.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 4, 2020

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 19, 2015

"The president and editor-in-chief of the Web publication [HuffPost] announced in an internal memo on Thursday that she had just signed a new four-year contract to remain at the site she founded in 2005." That could mean a continuing pruning of functions and actual employees and contract workers. When I was a contract blogger at AOL, before HuffPost took over, what was given top placement on the site was content that had a video attached.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 7, 2020

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 28, 2010

We writers are no newbies at being contract workers.   In an oddball case, nine exotic dancers filed a lawsuit against their contract employer Penthouse Executive Club.    That means that other contract workers at that employer can piggyback on that legal complaint.  The defendant contends that as contract employees the plaintiffs are not covered by the protections of federal and state labor laws.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

November 4, 2009 – A coalition of more than a dozen Canadian writers’ organizations today launched a new website (BadWritingContracts.ca) to raise awareness about the unfair and damaging freelance contract from Transcontinental Media. Tags: Freelance Writing - General Freelance Writing - Newspaper/Magazine bad wrting contracts

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 18, 2016

Obviously, the next step for this lawsuit is being watched by the many companies which also use contract workers.   The current Uber contract drivers or if they became employees wouldn't be needed any more. No surprise, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen rejected the proposed $100 million settlement in class action "O'Connor v. Uber Technologies" as well as a similar class action suit in Massachusetts.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 19, 2015

The extended time the job-hiring process takes also applies to contract or on-demand-economy jobs.   For a contract job in sales I had to complete online multiple forms about background details. "Stephen Davis, an economist at the University of Chicago, found that as of April the average job sat vacant for 27.3 days before being filled, nearly double the 15.3 days it took to fill a job in mid-2009." " - Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2015.

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Communication Steroids

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Tim ‘Gonzo’ Gordon and Roger Pike discuss speaker contracts in this podcast.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 4, 2019

Those include, of course, Uber contract drivers.  Growth in market share/revenue no longer cuts it with investors. Not without any sign of profits. Amazon did pull that off. But that was then. The world of investing has changed. Uber is a public company and it's come under the scrutiny of traditional kinds of shareholders. That wild west of hopes about making a killing investing in digital startups has been tamed. And it isn't only in traditional public markets.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 20, 2017

Here  are details and how to apply. careers

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 9, 2013

But since more and more of us are contract workers, there has got to be additional coverage of when we get passed over for jobs and plum assignments. The worst part of being "passed over" for a professional opportunity is the surge of self-doubt.    Sure, we miss out on money, prestige, and the shot at the next step up the ladder.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The contract assignment is to research and then write about a broad range of topics. Here is the help-wanted posted on Pro-Blogger Jobs by Wonder. In the help-wanted, Wonder positions and packages itself as a force field powered by the intellectually curious. Usually that is an age-neutral trait. One demonstrates it through the portfolio of clips. So, what's puzzling is that the applications, which is clicked on, asked for your birthday. Yes, day, month and year.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 29, 2018

The contract opportunity is remote. It was back in the days when the Roman Catholic Church dominated the lives of urban-area immigrants, blue-collars, and upward-mobiles. There was a phenomenon known as "nun's handwriting." " The penmanship was perfect. It served as the model for the students in Catholic school to follow. And in those pre-digital times, handwriting was as important to success as is tech literacy currently. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 11, 2019

It was believed that class action gender discrimination lawsuit - "Dawn Knepper et al. Ogletree" - would be another blockbuster. Again, here was a female law partner (nonequity, though) and others taking on a BigLaw firm and being represented by Superlawyer in that category David Sanford. But that might not be. As Law.com reports the lawsuit might disappear and reconfigure as a bit of arbitration. Knepper hadn't opted out of arbitration. 

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Great Public Speaking

JULY 10, 2009

Contract marketing is one way to do it. The idea is to put a mention of other products or services in your contract / agreement after you have landed the speaking engagement. You might say, "Tom, why don't you just discuss additional product sales up front with the meeting planner and put the deal right in your contract?" The reason is that the meeting planner doesn't always know how much budget that is available for this until all the top priorities are under contract.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

As Erin Mulvaney reports in Corporate Counsel (reprinted in Law.com), more employers are adopting what's called the "love contract."  Romances in the office always had taken place. But, with increased time spent in the workplace, they are even more likely to develop.    And, in this era of heightened consciousness about sexual harassment, those relationships have become of significant legal concern for employers.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

To transact his purchase of property in the Ukraine, venture capitalist and founder of TechCrunch Michael Arrington used a smart contract. Sooner than many employees at Deutsche Bank anticipate, their new colleagues could be a robot. And, once those robots settle into a routine, the human finance people could lose their lucrative jobs. The financial institution's chief executive officer John Cryan is candid about the possibility that robots could take over half of the 97,000 jobs.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Brand Contract Worker is taking it on the chin, again. GrubHub" is the most recent lawsuit arguing that the contract worker should have been classified as a traditional employee. The Wall Street Journal article by Lauren Weber positions and packages us as second-class citizens. It starts with a sadsack chronicle of a guy who lost his "real" job at IBM and eventually became part of the lost generation which lacks employment security. "Lawson v.

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Great Public Speaking

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Contract marketing is one way to do it. The idea is to put a mention of other products or services in your contract / agreement after you have landed the speaking engagement. You might say, "Tom, why don't you just discuss additional product sales up front with the meeting planner and put the deal right in your contract?" The reason is that the meeting planner doesn't always know how much budget that is available for this until all the top priorities are under contract.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 5, 2013

With only 88,000 jobs created in March, it's time more professionals begin thinking about contract work as a career path.    Right now I have a job, an amazing accomplishment at age 67, after a quarter of a century of working contract.    Even if they continue to land themselves full time permanent jobs with benefits the mindset has to be that of the free agent, that is someone who lives by hustle. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 18, 2014

A sign of our rage-filled, mean-spirited times, I just signed a contract with a new client which has this provision: "Both parties agree that for two years from the signing of this agreement they will not make disparaging remarks about each other to third parties." Now there is no social contract between those writing the check and those doing the work.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 2, 2017

In Bloomberg , Hugh Son reports: " [JPMorgan's] program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work by lawyers and loan officers." To leverage that over-used buzzphrase: The future is now. And it is robotic.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 4, 2013

  It was in the now that I snagged the contract to ghostwrite the book.  That a famous brandname chose me to ghostwrite a book was not entirely a surprise.    After all, I went into the "audition" with the advantage of having recently written two major speeches and nine articles on the subject matter to be covered. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 20, 2013

SuperFreelancers are the marines of the communications industry.  We have the elite branding to be called to parachute in.  We are there to hit the ground running in both good times and bad times for organizations.  The pay is not that of an investment banker but, for content-providers, it is relatively good. It takes a while, though, to embrace this new identity.

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http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker

MAY 2, 2009

prospeaker

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 26, 2010

Believe me, I never thought that I would see the day when the writing market returned, at least for us freelancers.  A   A major assignment actually came in and interviews for others kept the phone busy.    Could the downsizing in full-time writing jobs be working in our favor?    Another positive sign:  Virtual is increasingly okay with prospects and clients.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Most of professional services firms are struggling to differentiate themselves from the competition. That's why this is a good niche to specialize in if you are in marketing communications.  Here is an opportunity at an Atlanta law firm. Must know everything from ad copy to SEO.    Here are details and how to apply.   careers Selling

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

  At times like this I am grateful I am a contract worker. Yahoo has embraced Ranking and Yanking performance reviews.  Microsoft has ditched them.   Here's what THE ECONOMIST has to say about all that. When I was a part-time blogger for AOL, before it joined with Huffington Post, I did receive a performance review.  That surprised me.  But it was the old-fashioned kind in which our strengths and weaknesses are pointed out.

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TJ Walker Interactive

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Uncategorized Barack Obama Benghazi Four More Years fox news channel gop media matters roger ailes Terrorism

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

"You're [lawyers] only as good as your last trial, your last settlement. You are constantly looking for more clients." " -  Terry Robertson, Dean of Empire College School of Law, in interview with North Bay Business Journal. Here you can read that interview. The new game plan is about dazzling prospects, employers, and temp agencies with what we just accomplished and what we can accomplish for them.

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Manner of Speaking

JUNE 21, 2010

In a previous post , I wrote that as speakers, we enter into a social contract with our audiences every time we take the stage. Tags: Delivery Preparation bananas eye contact David Bader Social Contract rest arrive early Being There cotton mouth David Bader has a wonderful quote that public speakers should take to heart: “Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?&#.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 16, 2011

In the 21st century, one of the project economy, contract-worker careers are becoming closer and closer to that of a migrant worker.    Since there are a growing number of contract workers, a good pitch, with terms and conditions favorable to the buyer, doesn't nail down the assignment so often.  In the 20th century, the career of a free agent was mostly stable. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

  That is so much the situation that it extends beyond full time to part time and contract work.    When I was employed as a contract security guard in Home Depot I discovered that, thanks to my energy level and work ethic, I could succeed in any number of workplaces. PORTFOLIO is not breaking news when it informs us that the unemployed become the untouchables in the labor market. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 28, 2018

A way around the employment agreements requiring individual arbitration and prohibiting collective legal action (class action lawsuits) has been the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). The state, rather than any individual, is the entity filing the complaint. Here is a comprehensive discussion of PAGA by Bloomberg columnist Josh Eidelson. And that Act is at the heart of the lawsuit filed by former Jones Day partner Wendy Moore alleging gender discrimination.

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TJ Walker Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Uncategorized contract Media negotiations new out over staffers times walk york

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