Sessions and Speakers

Speaker Handouts

• Advanced Acrobatics: Tips and Tricks for PDF Mark-up (220.17 KB)
   – Adrienne Montgomerie
• Reading Pictures: How to Edit Graphic Novels (723.52 KB)
   – Alison Kooistra
• An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (192.11 KB)
   – Anne Godlewski
• Beyond the Plain Language Edit (126.72 KB)
   – Claire Foley and Tracy Torchetti
• New Editorial and Publishing Technologies (3.35 MB)
   – Carolyn Brown
• Every Good e-Book Needs a Good Editor: Demystifying EPUB Structure for Non-coders (6.32 MB)
   – Christen Thomas
• e-Merging in Social Media to Win Clients (4.06 MB)
   – Erin Brenner 
• How to Leverage LinkedIn to Showcase Your Editorial Expertise (534.77 KB)
   – Leslie Hughes
• How to Achieve Financial Security in Your Business and Personal Life (6.87 MB)
   – Philip Boland
• How to Edit a Blog (and When and Why You Should) (8.43 MB)
  – Tammy Burns
• Réviser les traductions : l’anglais vers le français et le français vers l’anglais (343.5 KB)
   – Marie-Christine Payette

Business and Career

• All About Certification: A Q&A Forum – Moira White and Frances Peck
• Career Mojo at Work: Deceptively Simple Strategies for Times of "Crazy Busy" – Eileen Chadnick
• e-Merging in Social Media to Win Clients – Erin Brenner
• How to Achieve Financial Security in Your Business and Personal Life – Philip Boland
• How to Leverage LinkedIn to Showcase Your Editorial Expertise – Leslie Hughes
• Resumé Strategies for the Online Job Search – Pamela Paterson
• Subcontracting: Options, Opportunities, and Risks / La sous-traitance : options, occasions et risques – Michelle Boulton, Elizabeth d'Anjou, and Elizabeth Macfie
• Enlighten Others—and Get Paid for It: How to Launch and Run a Training Business – Graham Young
• Earn More by Working for Free / Gagnez plus en donnant de votre temps – Jacqueline Dinsmore, Carolyn L Burke, and Sophie Pallota
• Le point sur l'Agrément de l'ACR – Sandra Gravel
• The Taxation of Income Earned from the Provision of Creative Services: An Overview – Thomas Bang and Jason Simon
• Not-So-Senior Editors: A Q&A for Beginners (open drop-in) – Janet MacMillan
• The No-Year Plan – David Hayes
• Financial Planning for the Professional Editor – Oran Boyle
• Speed Mentoring / Mentorat éclair – Gael Spivak, Marie-Lynn Hammond, Lisa Jemison, Elizabeth Macfie, Sandra Gravel, Greg Ioannou, and Rachel Stuckey

Editing 2.0

• Brave New World: e-Reading, e-Editing, and e-Publishing – Jennifer Latham
• How to Edit a Blog (and When and Why You Should) – Tammy Burns
• Tabula Rasa: Setting Content Free with Tablet Magazines – Stacey McLeod
• Digital Publishing Opens Up New Opportunities for Pro Editors – Mark Lefebvre
• An Introduction to Project Management – Julie McKenna
• XML for Humans: Non-geek Discussion of a Geek-chic Topic – Bernard Aschwanden
• Unconference: The Senior Editor’s Roundtable – Iva Cheung
• Dirty Editing: The Collapsing Editorial Process – Rosemary Shipton, Sue Earl, and Tammy Burns
• Collaboration: A Key to Success in the Publication Process / La collaboration : la clé du succès dans le processus de publication – Christine Hastie
• An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization – Anne Godlewski

Editorial Niches

• Editors Making Drugs: Your Career in Regulatory Medical Writing – Danielle St. Pierre
• Reading Pictures: How to Edit Graphic Novels – Alison Kooistra
• Beyond the Plain Language Edit – Claire Foley and Tracy Torchetti
• The Future of Self-publishing and Editors – Arlene Prunkl, Donna Dawson, Mark Lefebvre, and Vanessa Ricci-Thode
• Working as an In-house Managing Editor – Brooke Smith, Robert Steckling, and Tracy Torchetti
• Editing Translations: English to French and French to English / Réviser les traductions : l'anglais vers le français et le français vers l'anglais – Lesley Cameron and Marie-Christine Payette
• Travailler dans l'édition français-langue-seconde – Elaine Gareau, Tanjah Estelle Karoven et Caroline Kloss

Language and Culture

• Do You Speak Brand? Learning to Love the Lingo! – Jeannette Hanna
• No Longer Business as Usual: Copyright Issues in e-Merging Methods and Markets – Erin Finlay
• Our Changing Language: When Does Wrong Become Right? – James Harbeck
• Tracking Change in Canadian Publishing – Gillian Buckley, Jen Knoch, Alana Wilcox, and Noelle Allen
• Indigenous Writing and Editing – Lee Maracle

Tools and Technology

• Ergonomic Balance: Make Your Workstation Work for Your Life! – Efan Gonsalves and Joseph Trambulo
• Every Good e-Book Needs a Good Editor: Demystifying EPUB Structure for Non-coders – Christen Thomas
• Faster Editing: Using PerfectIt to Check Consistency and House Style – Daniel Heuman
• New Editorial and Publishing Technologies – Carolyn Brown
• Protecting Yourself in Your Digital World: Preventative Maintenance from a Computer Security Perspective – Jeffrey Peck
• Advanced Acrobatics: Tips and Tricks for PDF Mark-up – Adrienne Montgomerie

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