KOKEdit

KOKEdit, 5 days ago to business

Woohoo! I've caught up with 2024! I've moved my #business #website & the site for the #EmailDiscussionList #CopyeditingL (I'm the list owner) from being "http" to being secure "https" sites. Yes, I took a long time, but now ... YAY! https://www.kokedit.com https://www.copyediting-l.info/ #editor #NotWebmaster

KOKEdit, 11 days ago to ai

#Editors in #EducationalPublishing, here's a #survey about #AI in #EditorialPractice. Please participate! Thank you. It's being run by @jhargrave, a lecturer in publishing at the University of Derby, UK. https://tinyurl.com/ynhcs9p9 #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 19 days ago to random

Helpful podcast from @grammargirl: “Efficiency Hacks for Writers and Editors with Erin Brenner,” author of new #book The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability. https://tinyurl.com/24u5y6td . #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 26 days ago to ChatGPT

Unfortunately, this isn't surprising. "#Researchers are misusing #ChatGPT and other #ArtificialIntelligence chatbots to produce #scientific #literature. ... One ... [study] found that up to 17.5 percent of recent computer science papers exhibit signs of AI writing." https://tinyurl.com/mrx4tmyp #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 29 days ago to 13thFloor

#Editors of #fiction, you've heard about @AmyJSchneider's new book The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction. Should you get it? Wonder no more! Longtime editing pro Adrienne Montgomerie says she even quotes passages of it to her university #editing students! https://tinyurl.com/y27jauz6

KOKEdit, 1 month ago to random

Congratulations to Erin C. Brenner, 2024 winner of the Robinson Prize from ACES: The Society for Editing! ⭐️

KOKEdit, 2 months ago to DigitalNomadHub

This makes me so happy! @ecbrenner has been a colleague and friend of mine for years, and I'm so glad fellow #freelance #editors will now be able to benefit from her wisdom about running their own #editorial #businesses. Thank you, #UniversityOfChicagoPress, for #publishing Erin's #book! So many #SelfEmployed editors will benefit from it. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo213434367.html

KOKEdit, 2 months ago to random

Ooh, this #book sounds good! The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers. It’s out now from the University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo213648394.html . #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 2 months ago to Pubtips

Seen those reports re #Elsevier #publishing an article w/ intro by #ChatGPT? The blog Scholarly Kitchen says, "While this has led many to question the #PeerReview process..., it’s worth considering other points in the...workflow where such errors might happen." https://tinyurl.com/8hkuuhw4 #AI #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 3 months ago to random

Ooh! The publication date (April) is getting closer for the new book The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability, by @ecbrenner! Take a look at the book cover! http://tinyurl.com/4t6txd3z

KOKEdit, 3 months ago to DigitalNomadHub

Why do some #employees of and #freelancers for #publishers think they should not #assert themselves and set #workload and #scheduling #deadlines? Humans are not robots. They can only do so much work each day. Stand up for yourself! #AmEditing

KOKEdit, 3 months ago to business

Wow! If years of #SelfEmployment hadn't taken away the urge to work in a #business #office, I'd jump on this. What fun, and what a great chance to help make the world a better place! @dailykos is looking for a #ManagingEditor. https://www.dailykos.com/jobs/#job-managing-editor-1jx7

KOKEdit, 4 months ago to random

The first snow of 2024 falls on the cedar-covered KOK Edit building and the surrounding trees.

KOKEdit, 5 months ago to mentalhealth

Excellent points in this article about ways to improve the #workplace so that workers will have better #mental and #physical #health: https://time.com/6548866/how-work-affects-your-health/ But I must say that choosing #SelfEmployment 29 years ago HUGELY improved my health and #joy in working.

KOKEdit, 5 months ago to science

If you're a #science #editor, you may be interested in the open-access article "Building #Diversity, #Equity, #Inclusion, and #Accessibility Capacity: Resources to Promote Best Practices Among Professionals in #Scholarly #Publishing" in Science Editor, the journal of the Council of Science Editors. https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/building-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-capacity/

KOKEdit, 5 months ago to writing

I've updated the "Education and Certification" page of the Copyeditors' Knowledge Base (#CKB)—specifically, the entry for #book #editor and #writing #coach @tanyagold. If you're ready to learn more about your craft, editors, that's the page for you. http://tinyurl.com/ymxa3me6

KOKEdit, 5 months ago to random

Cynthia Williams, experienced #editor, has posted to the blog Outside the Book about an issue that needs attention: "what it’s like for people of different linguistic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds to work together, to work in publishing. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/further-outside-book-cynthia-williams-rfa1c/ #Bookstodon

KOKEdit, 6 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

#Edibuddies and everyone else, this book about #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) sounds very useful. It's Future Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligence and How It Will Change Everything. Author: Martha Brockenbrough. https://tinyurl.com/yhrudu53

KOKEdit, 6 months ago to random

#Editors, if you want lots of helpful #guidelines on common editorial issues, check out this bundle of PDFs from the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading: https://www.ciep.uk/resources/fact-sheets-home/fact-sheets-paid-for . Free to CIEP members; low price for nonmembers.

KOKEdit, 6 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

(1/4) I'm concerned that #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) will perpetuate problems in #medicine because it learns from and builds on existing materials in each field. https://beta.elsevier.com/promotions/clinician-of-the-future-education-edition

KOKEdit, 7 months ago to design

The University of Chicago Press #book coming out that sounds helpful: The #Design of Books: An Explainer for #Authors, #Editors, #Agents, and Other Curious #Readers. It’ll publish in March 2024 but can be preordered now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo213648394.html .

KOKEdit, 8 months ago to random

I'll be ordering the #LeVarBurton Says Read Banned Books T-shirt to help fund MoveOn.org's work to fight #book #bans: https://store.moveon.org/products/levar-burton-banned-books-t-shirt #Bookstodon

KOKEdit, 8 months ago to magazine

#Editors: #HarvardMedicalSchool's #magazine, Harvard Medicine, is searching for new #editor. (Current editor is leaving in January.) Work format: hybrid (partially on-site, partially remote). Full time. Get details & apply: https://tinyurl.com/57buwe8h. See magazine: https://tinyurl.com/ynt8ah8h. #Bookstodon