Networking as a Way to Settle into a New Home

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter

Belonging to NAIWE means understanding that networking is a valuable tool for success as an independent writer or editor. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking Expert, will provide insights into how networking can make a new home in a new city and state more comfortable and welcoming on the professional level. She recently relocated from St. Louis to Albuquerque and is finding her new environment both rewarding and challenging.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

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Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes

Ruth Thaler-Carter has been a full-time freelance writer, editor, proofreader, and desktop publisher for more than 30 years. She has been published locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally in, and does writing, editing and proofreading for, publications, associations, nonprofits, websites, service firms, and businesses. She sold her first freelance articles when she was still in high school. Renowned as a skilled networker, Ruth is active in about a dozen professional associations, serving as a newsletter editor, webmaster, publication author, speaker/presenter, blogger, program host or planner, and chapter leader. In 2006, Ruth launched the Communication Central “Be a Better Freelancer” annual conference to help aspiring and established freelancers find greater success and connections with colleagues. Ruth is the owner and editor-in-chief of the An American Editor blog and received the Philip M. Stern Award of Washington (DC) Independent Writers for service to freelancers; the Writers and Books Big Pencil Award for teaching adults and contributions to the literary community; EFfie awards for writing, editing, and newsletters; and the APEX award for feature writing. She was also an IABC/DC Communicator of the Year.