Dimitri “Have pen, will travel” Ly is a writer, editor, illustrator, podcast host, and webmaster. He works on pieces for websites, magazines, universities, DVD releases, private corporations, and government services.
When he isn’t doing all that, Dimitri is in the fascinating and highly coveted world of freelance fiction writing.
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PodCamp Montreal is back for its third edition. The bilingual event is a key conference in learning some basic and advanced skills on how to use social media and podcasting at our professional advantage.
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Dimitri “Have pen, will travel” Ly is a writer, editor, illustrator, podcast host, and webmaster. He works on pieces for websites, magazines, universities, DVD releases, private corporations, and government services.
Dimitri is also in the fascinating and highly coveted world of freelance fiction writing.
Continue reading "The Write Stuff: A talk with freelance prose writer Dimitri Ly (Part 1 of 2)"
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A friendly reminder that after the unbridled success of the last Mediaville All-Media Mixer, a second event is happening next week! This is more than just a social event, it’s a chance to forge closer ties — especially business ties — with other Montreal based freelance media professionals.
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Blogterview: Jacqueline Snider, Writer, Editor, Proofreader
Jacqueline Snider has and made several appearances here on the Mediaville blog, sharing insights and advice gleaned from more than a decade in the business.
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Back by popular demand, we’re organizing another freelancer meet and greet next month. Our last event was such a success — about 30 freelance professionals in print, video, radio, web and mobile media, whether creative, journalistic or corporate — how could we resist?
Today is the first in a new series of Mediaville Blogterviews. These are short interviews, each of which introducing a Montreal freelancer and friend of Mediaville. It’s a great way to get the word out about what you do, and to find out more about other freelancers for potential collaboration.
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This is the second of two posts in which Patrick Tanguay, Co-founder of Station C, location of the recent Mediaville All-Media Mixer, answers a few questions to help freelancers better understand the concept of coworking, and see why working in a professional, creative space like Station C beats the distractions of the home office or the coffee shop.
Those that attended the Mediaville All-Media Mixer, already know Station C. An excellent workspace, Station C made quite an impression with many of the freelancers in attendance, so it’s time to recap how the space operates, why it’s good for freelancers and to take look at a few other interesting points about the space.
Mediaville Guest Blog by Miranda Lightstone – read more at Driving MsMiranda
The first thing you learn in J-School (or at leas the first thing that really stuck in my brain) is: Write what you know. Those four words rung true to me and I still repeat them often to this day, five years later. Writing what you know is the best and perhaps easiest way to succeed as a journalist/writer in the creative world. But, how do you know what you know?
In this second part of our conversation with Craig Silverman, journalist, author and Digital Journalism Director at OpenFile, we continue talking about their approach to a pressing news question:
How to create a real opportunity for ‘journalists looking to thrive in a digital media world’?
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