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Upwork
Upwork and Freelancers Union released the results of "Freelancing in America: 2017" (FIA), the most comprehensive measure of the U.S. independent workforce. The fourth annual study estimates that 57.3 million Americans are freelancing (36 percent of the U.S. workforce) and contribute approximately $1.4 trillion annually to the economy, an increase of almost 30% since last year.
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Mynewsdesk
With the New Year now in full swing, we asked a handful of experts to share their public relations predictions for 2018. Common themes that emerged included automation, artificial intelligence and the lethal combination of art and science.
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Fast Company
If you're shooting for a raise or promotion next year, you might be thinking about putting in longer hours to prove your worth. But Doug Ringer, president of Fort Collins, Colorado-based business consultancy Doug Ringer Consulting, says it's a better idea to "get a life."
Ringer has worked with leaders at Honeywell, GE, Ericsson, and Schneider Electric to help them make business-growth decisions.
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Electric Lit
Laura Olin raised the money to publish her book in a little over a day.
Olin, an author and social media strategist who worked on President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, spent November Kickstarting her children's book Our President Was Called Barack.
The book, written by Olin and illustrated by artist Franziska Barczyk, was funded in 33 hours, raising $39,792 — $14,792 more than its $25,000 goal, falling just a few hundred dollars short of its $40,000 stretch goal.
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JSTOR Daily
New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof was one of the first to start blogging for one of the most well-known media companies in the world. Yet on Dec. 8, he declared his blog was being shut down, writing, "we've decided that the world has moved on from blogs — so this is the last post here."
The death knell of blogs might seem surprising to anyone who was around during their heyday.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Debates this year over a succession of health-care bills led media outlets from the coasts and Washington, DC, into "Trump country." Here's a snapshot from Kentucky, where I work: Politico went to Salyersville to scrutinize the complications of a Medicaid work requirement. The New York Times parachuted into Whitesburg and spoke with nearly two-dozen people about their conflicted feelings over both Obamacare and the American Health Care Act.
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Poynter
New Year's Day brought loads of dishes, the engrossing college football semifinals (what a Georgia-Oklahoma game), NFL coach firings, White House reporters cooling their heels in a Palm Beach IHOP as President Trump played golf — and the final remnants of a holiday media staple: top 10 lists.
But wait. What about asking smart media folks what they don't know about what beckons in 2018?
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Poynter
Throughout the year, I've been collecting tweetstorms from journalists and news organizations explaining how they do what they do. In addition to using the platform as a reporter's notebook or to fact-check statements, some people used tweets to really explain the journalism they were doing in a really human way. The explanations were amazing, clear and necessary. But Twitter is the worst place for them.
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The Washington Post
Four days into the new year, Mark Zuckerberg is resolving to spend 2018 fixing issues with Facebook.
The Facebook chief executive explained in a post Thursday that every year he makes it his mission to "learn something new" — traveling across the country, perhaps, or learning a new language, or building a robot for his home.
This year, he is turning his attention to ... Facebook.
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Kansas City Star
Did you grow up gardening with a parent or grandparent? If you said yes, that is not surprising: Research conducted by Ball Horticulture found that if, as a child, you gardened with a parent, you were more than twice as likely to garden as an adult.
I grew up gardening with family. That was in the days when a vegetable garden was necessary to ensure a winter food supply. The garden was planted with the purpose of having fresh corn on the cob not only in the summer but in the winter, too.
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American Nurseryman
The American Society of Landscape Architects now offers a series of free online sustainable design guides that highlight cutting-edge ways for residential landscapes to support the environment — no matter the location or property size.
The ASLA sustainable residential design guides focus on increasing energy efficiency, improving water management, applying ecological design and using low-impact materials.
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Greenhouse Grower
Malcolm Gladwell didn't coin the phrase "the tipping point," but he did give it relevance in the modern lexicon with his 2000 book of the same name. He defined a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." He also described three rules of epidemics, articulating a case for virality (although he didn't call it that) or the essence of how something catches on and becomes momentous or memorable.
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