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Freelancers and Freelance Work

The American Society of Indexers
Professional organization of indexers, abstracters, and database builders. Includes information for publishers on finding and using freelance indexers.

Editorial Freelancers Association
(incorporating the Freelance Editorial Association)
The Editorial Freelancers Association is a national, nonprofit, professional organization of self-employed workers in the publishing and communications industries. Members are editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators, and others. Site includes job list service, newsletter articles, books for sale, list of organization's seminars and workshops, membership and chapter information.

Elance
An exchange for freelancers and those who would hired them. In the site's Writing & Editing Marketplace, publications can post requests for proposal (RFPs) for freelance projects; freelancers then submit bids. Freelancers also may post notice of their services and rates. A tutorial explains how.

Farm
Matches employers with many different types of contractors, including writers, translators, designers, marketers, and more.

Freeagent.com
Lists contractors who work in traditional media as well as Internet  and new media. Providers of financial services, human resources assistance, and many other services are listed as well.

Freelance Success newsletter site
This newsletter for freelance writers. The Web site offers subscribers the opportunity to include their resumes and specialities in a searchable database. Editors can locate writers by keyword, last name or by simply scrolling through until they see a writer's credentials that fit the bill.

Freelance Writer Search
Site from the American Society of Journalists and Authors lists ASJA members who are freelance writers, editors, editorial project managers, and proofreaders.

Freelance Writing Jobs
Blog includes freelance job postings, a “Cover Letter Clinic,” and a “Monday Markets” section that looks at a different media niche each week. (Note that the actual URL is freelancewritingigs.com; freelancewritingjobs.com takes you to a completely different site.)

Guru.com
Project categories on this site include Creative/Media, Finance and Legal, IT, Management and Strategy, Marketing, Advertising and Sales, Training and Advice, Web - Business and Operations, Web - Development and Creative.

Independent Writers of Chicago
Includes calendar of events; professional standards; hints on hiring and working with writers; a list of members and their specialties; useful links for writers.

Magazine Health Watch
Database of advertising pages and revenue for consumer and business magazines. Freelancers can use the site to check up on the financial health of potential clients. They also can find names of trade titles in specific markets they might be interested in writing for.

National Writers Union
Contains a Job Hotline to help writers and employers find each other, standard freelance contracts for print and online media; information on repetitive stress injuries and other health and safety issues for writers. Also links to its affiliate, the Cartoonist's Association.

Newmediary.com
There are no writers listed on this site, which emphasizes on information technology projects, but it does cover useful areas such as web content, web hosting, public relations, and training. It includes both free and paid-listing options.

Rfpmarket.com
Site lists requests for proposals (RFPs) for projects such as writing, editing, Internet services, marketing, advertising, and training, among others.

Smarterwork.com
Lists Internet service providers, web design contractors, freelance writers and translators, and more.

Society for Technical Communication
Society members include writers, editors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educators, students, engineers, and scientists. Both national and chapter sites include permanent and contract job listings.

WordCount
This blog about writing by freelancer Michelle Vranizan Rafter discusses how to run a freelance writing business, how to keep organized, the art of writing, and how digital media is changing journalism at newspapers, magazines and Web sites. She often blogs about tech tools for writers. Rafter is technology reporter who writes for a variety of business and b2b publication. Of special interest is her post on how to get freelance work from business-to-business publications.

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