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(Detailed information about how to update your AlaskaWriters site — from entering text, to sizing and uploading images.)
AK Writers Guild Counts Down to Sept. conference
September 08, 2010
A recent message from AlaskaWriters member Jim Misko: “In 13 days the third annual Alaska Writers Conference will begin with interactive workshops on Friday, September 10th at 4:00 pm at the West Coast International Inn in Anchorage.
49 Writers Fall workshops now open for registration
September 08, 2010
For those who haven’t heard, 49 Writers’ “Raven Place"-- the dream of Anchorage writers/bloggers Deb Vanasse and Andromeda Romano-Lax--will continue on as a resource for writers, and is due to move to a new home (at yet another darned cute downtown historic property) this November. (The move will be from 415 L Street to 645 3rd Avenue, by the Snow Goose and Marx Bros. Cafe.) Most exciting for me, it is time to register for new fall writing classes at the 49 Writers writing center.
Knight Digital Media Center offers workshops
September 08, 2010
The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) at UC Berkeley has sent notice that the application period is now open for its next round of workshops: “In case you’re not familiar with our program, we offer free week-long training to working journalists. We teach multimedia storytelling, including how to capture and edit video, photos and audio. We also offer an interactive census workshop, a Web publishing for independent journalists workshop, and Web 2.0 training for journalists.” KDMC covers all food and lodging for the week--everything but travel to Berkeley, California, which is to be paid by the applicant’s news organization. (FYI - It was at Knight workshops that I greatly expanded my knowledge of website creation--and learned about Flash, not to mention got at least 5 years ahead of general knowledge about Bollywood, net accessibility issues, and what would be the next big things in the worlds of virtual gaming and cell phones. I highly, highly recommend going to a Knight workshop.) If you are interested, please see the details that follow or apply at KDMC’s Website.
Make sure your website offers a way to reach you
September 08, 2010
Is your contact information easy for people to locate on your website? Are you sure? I had an awakening recently (OK, today) when I realized that the phone number that used to be plastered all over my website was now nigh near impossible to find. Argh! I traced the problem to a design change in my site a year ago.
Lesson: When you update your website design, do your best to go over it with fresh eyes. Don’t assume something is there because it used to be there. For future reference (and until I update my template), Sonya’s contact information is as follows: Business line 908-830-7355 (no sales calls, please!) and e-mail .
As you make your own web updates, be sure your site has the following 5 elements, at minimum:
Absolutely free website builder!
April 25, 2010
Check out the Google Site I created in preparation for my May 6 presentation. It’s just a few pages offering a quick summary of some ground I’ll be covering at the talk: “5 Web Facts for Writers.”
‘49 Writers’ bloggers plan Anchorage writing center
April 23, 2010
Want to get in on the ground floor to build an Anchorage writing resource (and guest house/retreat)? Check out what ‘49 Writers’ bloggers Andromeda Romano-Lax and Deb Vanasse have got planned…
May 6: Sonya speaks on ‘How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love My Website’
April 23, 2010
Yes, I will break my long silence May 6 to speak to Alaska Professional Communicators at the organization’s contest luncheon. I’ll tell what I’ve learned from running AlaskaWriters.com and share some basics every writer needs to know to use the Web—including the care and feeding of a domain name, as well as what a website (and Twitter and Facebook) can and can’t do for you. The presentation, at the May 6 APC luncheon at Kinley’s Restaurant is titled “How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love My Website.”
‘Northwords’ anthology seeks submissions
March 29, 2010
Serial anthologist Michael Engelhard has a problem: He can’t seem to stop making anthologies. And, while normally I might suggest not encouraging this sort of obsession, the truth is that he creates beautiful, thoughtful, poetic collections. His upcoming anthology, “Northwords,” seeks submissions on writing and life in the Last Frontier. He seeks first-person essays of no more than 3,000 words that capture the humor, heartbreak, or hardship of writing on the Last Frontier. For the full call for submissions, click the link that follows.
Check out article on Bill Sherwonit’s visit to AK Pro Com
December 11, 2009
If you missed Bill Sherwonit’s December 3 talk at the Alaska Professional Communicators luncheon, you can still read up about it at the AK Pro Com website’s “Afterwords" section.
Saroyan International Prize offers $5,000 for newly published works
December 10, 2009
From Jim Misko and the Alaska Writers Guild comes a suggestion to check out the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Explore, celebrate wild nature with Bill Sherwonit
November 27, 2009
Author of Changing Paths and 11 other books, AlaskaWriters member Bill Sherwonit will speak about “exploring and celebrating wild nature” to Alaska Professional Communicators (an organization that is also a member of our site) on Thursday, December 3. Bill is the featured speaker for the luncheon, to be held in the offices of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC). Sherwonit will speak about “Exploring and Celebrating Wild Nature, from Alaska’s Urban Center to its Remote Backcountry Wilderness.”
Anchorage illustrator, musician releases flute book/CD set
November 24, 2009
A big welcome to Chris Floyd, Anchorage-based illustrator, musician and author of the recently released book and CD set, A Flock of Magpies: Celtic & Folk Melodies for Native American Flute, which he is selling straight from his AlaskaWriters-hosted website, at www.flockofmagpies.com. The website features 30-second mp3’s, so you can hear samples before buying.
