Erin Brenner (she/her)
@ebrenner.bsky.social
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Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘 2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆 Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪 Advocate for conscious language. 💬
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Editor’s Complete Website Toolkit: A 3-part webinar series to enhance your website. Part 1: Website Foundations, May 21. Early bird pricing ends May 14. www.righttouchediting.com/pr.... Get the full series at early bird rates by May 14. zurl.co/9YiIL
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As your organization grows, editing demands can become overwhelming, causing missed deadlines and overworked staff. Right Touch Editing provides full editorial teams to support your content pipeline, letting you focus on your core mission while we handle the editing. zurl.co/8mUJB

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Fast, cheap work often sacrifices quality, especially in writing and editing. If quality matters, this edition of The Writing Resource explains why trying to have it all is a trap for clients and professionals. www.righttouchediting.com/20...
Why You Can’t Have Fast, Good, and Cheap - Right Touch Editing
When you have to choose two options from "fast, good, and cheap," what do you get?
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I'm thrilled to join the @editingglobally.bsky.social team with some of the best editors in the business!

If you've got a complex project that needs multiple editors or round-the-clock help, we can help! Check us out: www.editingglobally.com/home.html

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Stop Guessing and Start Growing! Let's review your business data in a one-hour coaching session, identify your most profitable work, and create an effective data tracking system. www.righttouchediting.com/pr...
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Individual Coaching Session with Erin Brenner
One-hour business coaching session Individual Coaching Session
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Join my 90-minute webinar to learn how to improve readability in nonfiction texts, user directions, and websites. Discover what readability is, how to measure it, and editing strategies. Don't miss this opportunity to advocate for your readers! zurl.co/wbr22
#EditorTraining #EditingForReadability
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Government shutdowns suck, no two ways about it. But remember that Republicans are offering a continuing resolution that hugely raises Americans' health premiums, and are refusing to negotiate with Democrats. More on what's happening: www.youtube.com/shorts/BOF2F.... Spread the word.
Why This Is Not a Normal Government Shutdown
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Republicans shut down the government to gut healthcare and bankroll Trump’s illegal power grab. We must hold the GOP accountable for causing chaos just to appease a wannabe king. app.sosha.ai/s/6T1FMPjl
Stop the Trump Shutdown
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As your organization grows, editing demands can become overwhelming, causing missed deadlines and overworked staff. Right Touch Editing provides full editorial teams to support your content pipeline, letting you focus on your core mission while we handle the editing. zurl.co/8mUJB
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Editors are not created equal, so it’s important to find the one who best fits your project and goals. Here’s how to pick one that’ll actually improve your writing (and your sanity). www.righttouchediting.com/20...
#Writing #RightTouchEditing
A Quick Guide to Hiring the Right Editor - Right Touch Editing
This quick guide will help you determine what you need in an editor, where to find them, and how to evaluate them before hiring them.
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Join me for the EFA San Francisco/Bay Chapter meeting this September for my session, “Digital Marketing Primer: Making a Big Splash on Your Own.” You'll learn marketing basics and how to create your first campaign, along with a planning worksheet! zurl.co/jHOB3
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Good luck, Carolina! You'll be fab!
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@colleennewvine.bsky.social: "If they can't trust you to get the details right, how can they trust you to get the facts right?"
#ACESVCON25
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Q: Should you follow AP style in your press releases?
A: Yes. It shows that you care about consistency and it will help save reporters time.
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"childcare" or "child care"?
"healthcare" or "health care"?

Let @apstylebook.com know which one and WHY. Please offer a reason.
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They're also working on the AI chapter.
#ACESVCON25
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Q: Can you use "AI" without spelling it out first under AP Stylebook?
A: They're looking at it!
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AP changed from Webster's New World to Merriam-Webster because MW is the only US dictionary with a full-time staff. They want a dictionary that is a full partner.
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You should break a style rule if it makes the text clearer. #ACESVCON25
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But the AP's audience is worldwide. Writers and editors need to make decisions that work best for their audiences.
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AP doesn't put abbreviations in parens. Anna Jo likes to avoid abbreviations because they make a story more difficult to read. Putting them in parens encourages using just the abbreviations.
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Sometimes entries are taken out of the print edition but stay on the website.

A couple that were removed from both: "Victrola" and "barmaid." Yeah, I can see that.

"Blog" was removed and put back in because readers wanted it.
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