Freelancers can make blogs work for them
Here's an interesting piece from Prezz Gazette in UK on blogging. I've had a
blog
since March 2004 and it's been helpful in experimenting with writing
styles, storing or playing with ideas and highlighting recent work.
Freelance
journalists can use blogs to fatten up features, research stories,
garner contacts, market their work, earn cash and publicise projects.
Christopher
Allbritton raised $15,000 (£8,600) from readers of his Back to Iraq
blog in March 2003. The cash enabled him to travel to Iraq and report
on the war and he became "the web's first fully reader-funded
journalist-blogger". As a result of his blog he was hired by Time
magazine. Allbritton returned to Iraq in January 2005 and continues to
blog his experiences while freelancing for Time and other outlets.One
of our programs at the national convention in Chicago is about
marketing ourselves as freelancers. I'm going to need ideas and
speakers so feel free to get those churning now. I'm looking for
unusual marketing ideas and specific strategies that other freelancers
can go home and try for themselves.
UPDATE: He may not be a freelancer, but here's how
Malcolm Gladwell uses a blog. He also has a link to it from his
Web site.