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Erma Bombeck's Writers' Workshop: The Editorial Freelancers Association. EFA hosts workshops, seminars, and classroom and online courses designed especially for editorial freelancers. All courses are open to members and nonmembers and require advance registration. In-person courses are held at the EFA headquarters, 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1910, New York, NY; online courses are available to participants nationwide.
Alice Levine Editorial Services:
Alice Levine, a 40-year veteran in nonfiction editing, offers exciting
and expert editorial workshops at reasonable rates. She has worked
with a wide range of clients, including publishing houses, businesses,
and medical, technical, and scientific organizations. She lectures at
the Denver Publishing Institute and Denver University and teaches
copyediting, proofreading, and related courses. For more information,
please visit
www.alicelevine-editorial.com, or write
alevineed@aol.com.
Writers Online Workshops: Now, you can get all the professional writing instruction you'll ever need without leaving your own home! Whether you need to brush up on the basics, want to start writing poetry or have a particular problem with your novel, you'll find just the class you need at Writers Online Workshops, from the publisher of Writer's Digest.
nSightWorks.com. Offers a wide range of the most popular publishing tools, technologies, and skills-based training programs. Specializes in delivering high-impact, consultative one-to-one tutorials, small group training, and team training, each tailored to best meet the needs of our clients from copyediting, editing and sales writing, to Java, XML and Web design.
Moritz Legal Proofing:
Legal and Financial proofreading and copyediting classes. Two-day
proofreading class covers everything you need to know about legal and
financial proofreading
redlining, blacklining, citations, EDGAR,
teamreading, slugging, full-reads
MediaBistro.com.
Site is dedicated to anyone who
creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional
working in a content/creative industry.
Its mission is to provide opportunities (both on- and
offline) for editorial professionals to share resources, become
informed of job opportunities, improve career skills and showcase work.
Some 71 courses offered: an incredible array focusing on various
niches
WritingTrainers.com.
Offers a broad range of
courses ( InlandPress.org. Inland is a newspaper association specializing in high-quality, low-cost training options for all newspaper departments (from copyediting to news writing to layout and design). Inland also produces industry standard research in newspaper costs and revenues, as well as newspaper compensation. ExecutiveWriter.com. The Executive Writer is a business-writing training company that shows businesspeople the rules-free, intuitive approach to writing that experienced, professional writers self-discover after years of practicing their craft. The Executive Writer approach is spelled out in Kevin Ryan's book, Write Up the Corporate Ladder, which is the basis of the writing seminars he has taught to small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. The Northwest Independent Editors Guild. An alliance of more than 175 professional freelance editors throughout Washington, Oregon, and Alaska formed in 1997 to help employers and authors find the right editor to meet their needs, among other things. Offers copyediting and editing workshops (eg, technical, email, business and grammar).
New York University The Direct Marketing Association (DMA). The DMA offers the most comprehensive series of seminars on direct and interactive marketing techniques available (copywriting, email marketing, direct marketing, etc.). Seminars and workshops feature practical insights from leading marketing experts on a wide range of topics. The Nonprofit World: Workshops and much more on such industry specific topics as proposal writing, Grant applications, consultants, etc.
EEI Communications.
An employee-owned company headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and
Silver Spring, Maryland. Can take a project from an idea through
production, visually and verbally, for print, CD-ROMs, the Web, and
mobile devices. Teaches publications and new media skills ( HowWriteYouAre.com. Offers a range of teleclasses, eg, how to make your web copy more compelling, how to write powerful emails, how to write more concisely, etc. Heddon Information Management. Offers online courses in web site indexing. These courses focus on how to create A-Z back-of-the-book style indexes of HTML documents, whether on web sites or intranets. Broader issues in web indexing are also discussed. An online discussion board is part of each course. Tell a friend about InkwellEditorial.com! 
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