BlackFreelance News: Skilled Freelancers Leaving Corporate Life & Freelance Artist Wins Jamaican Video Challenge

Published: Tue, 05/24/16

May 24, 2016View in browser

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Technical.ly DC
Read this recent Medium post for tips from four women working and freelancing in #dctech.
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Jamaica Information Service
Ikem Smith, a 24-year-old freelance visual artist and graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, is the winner of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 2016 VYBZING Jamaica Animated Music Video Challenge. Ikem won the top … Continued
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BBC News
As cloud-based marketplaces for freelancers give firms easy access to skilled workers project-by-project, is the "gig economy" the future of work?
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Chicago Inno
New Money ConceptDrop Deal: $1.1 million Investors: Led by Network Ventures, with participation from 500 Startups, M25 Group, G2T3V, Fulcrum Investing, and angel investors. What they do:...
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Wise Bread
What could be better than being your own boss and setting your own schedule? Nothing, really, if you avoid deep pitfalls like these!
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Fast Company
In some industries, there's now one freelance "comprehensivist" where there used to be a team of specialists.
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Business.com
Here are eight of the most common mistakes that freelancers have made when setting up their payment processing.
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Business 2 Community
Freelancers’ success depends on their organizational skills – both when it comes to finding/delivering work, and especially when it comes to getting paid. After all, “The cornerstone to getting…
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