Comments on: Freelance Writing Jobs Friday July 10, 2009

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:52:59 +0000

geeze, I missed that tweet… anyone still got it? I just sent Deb email on a private addy I have.

Time passes… I did a people search on media bistro on twitter, then clicked on them, http://twitter.com/Mediabistro, then did a search for freelancewritinggigs and they posted a link to her jobs yesterday… if that’s what crashed her that’s awful… do I dare let mb know I do roughly the same thing? Not until I talk to my tech guy.

By: Cathy M

Cathy M — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:16:35 +0000

Well, I tried that (cached version) but no luck with that either, Oh well…

By: Cathy M

Cathy M — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:08:16 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, Justine-I appreciate it!

By: Justine

Justine — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:11:11 +0000

Cathy – Deb Ng posted earlier that her server was having problems handling increased traffic since mediabistro tweeted her yesterday. She’s looking for a new hosting company, I think, but this kind of outage will probably happen until she gets one. If you’re looking for the leads, you can get a cached version of the page if you google for it. Good luck!

By: Cathy M

Cathy M — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:12:04 +0000

off topic–I am getting “this account is suspended” for Deb Ng’s freelancwritinggigs.com. Anyone know what’s going on?

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:27:23 +0000

By: Cathy M

Cathy M — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:19:29 +0000

Anne-I am very grateful for the generosity and willingness you have to share your expertise and valuable time to bring these ads to us.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:15:01 +0000

Debra, thanks!

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:14:35 +0000

Laura, as a general rule, if the ad states the pay we get it in the right spot. If the pay isn’t stated we guess, pure and simple. I have noticed that some advertisers are getting cleverer about how they write their ads… it’s harder and harder to tell which ads are legit.

Craigslist is charging in many places for employment ads and I’d hoped that would reduce the spam-type ads; it hasn’t.

I don’t know how I could verify each ad out of 60 or 70 even if I were charging and have any sort of life. Certainly I couldn’t post more than once a week and I don’t think that’s what most readers want.

Finally, I also figure readers here are adults and can figure out what they want to apply for and, over time, tune their own ear to what they want.

By: Debra

Debra — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:40:13 +0000

@ Laura — how do you propose Anne screen the jobs (Craigslist in particular) _thoroughly_? If Anne were to undertake this task, I’m certain she’d have no time left for writing — you know, the stuff that pays the bills?

It never ceases to amaze me when those who utilize the services of others, provided at no cost, purport ways in which said services could be perfected “in order to keep them around”! Yes, she did ask for suggestions, but ultimately it’s up to each of us to separate the proverbial “wheat from the chaff”.