Freelance Friday! A funding workshop for interactive digital media creators

CMG Freelance is inviting digital media workers and game developers to a Freelance Friday workshop this week that will focus on applying to the OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund. Attendees are invited to bring their project ideas and will have the opportunity to draft grant applications and get feedback from the workshop leaders: Kim Gibson from the OMDC, Catherine Feraday Miller […]

Posted on August 12, 2014 at 6:00 am by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: , ,

Selling Yourself, Selling Your Ideas

  Constantly selling yourself is one of the hardest parts of freelancing. Even when we have great ideas and solid writing skills, many of us don’t know where to begin when it comes to self-marketing. CMG Freelance held a panel discussion on self-marketing last Friday in Toronto at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel. Vancouver-based freelance broadcaster Paolo […]

Posted on May 28, 2014 at 6:04 am by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: , ,

Freelance Friday! Selling Yourself, Selling Your Ideas

Toronto freelancers, there’s a Freelance Friday panel discussion coming up next week called Selling Yourself, Selling Your Ideas. The free event, organized by CMG Freelance, is on Friday May 23rd from 1-4 pm at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel (1 Harbour Square) in the “Pier 9” room on the hotel’s convention level. The panel on pitching, self-promotion, […]

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Freelance Friday #2, Storified

[View the story “Value Your Work, Get It In Writing, and Get Paid” on Storify]

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Freelance Friday #2: How to value your work

The second in the Canadian Media Guild’s Freelance Friday workshop series is coming up next week in Toronto. This time, the topic is Freelance Contracts: How to value your work, get it in writing and get paid. CMG staff rep Keith Maskell will explore the nuts and bolts of freelance contracts and will give participants the tools they […]

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Freelance Friday #1, Storified

[View the story “Tax matters with Sunny Widerman” on Storify]

Posted on February 12, 2014 at 9:05 am by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: , ,