LINKS

Benefit from experience 

Below are links to other websites important and helpful for freelance medical writers.

When you click on a link, you will be directed away from The J Howard Company website. The J Howard Company is not affiliated with these sites, nor do we have any input in, control over, or responsibility for, their content.

Professional Links

American Medical Writers Association

AMWA is the professional organization for medical writers. AMWA has mentored many freelance medical writing careers and there are never enough good things to say about this organization. You can find out more about AMWA at: http://www.amwa.org/

American Medical Writers Association-Southwest Chapter

The national organization of AMWA is segmented into individual chapters based on geographic location. AMWA-DVC annually hosts a freelance workshop and an educational conference (both usually in the spring), where writers can network with other medical writers, learn specific medical writing skills, and work toward an AMWA certificate. You can read about the Texas Chapter's activities at http://www.amwasouthwest.org 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

We recently found ASHA--the professional organization that accredits speech pathologists, audiologists, and speech and hearing scientists, (those wonderful clinicians who treat individuals with speech, language, or hearing disorders). To find out more click on  http://www.asha.org/default.htm.

LinkedIn

If you're familiar with social networking of FaceBook, Twitter, Digg, and MySpace then you should be interested in the social network for professionals called LinkedIn. It's a great way to connect with colleagues, prospective business associates, other writers, designers, graphic artists, and videographers. Selling and business is all about relationships and LinkedIn is one great way to build new relationships and nurture established ones. Visit http://www.linkedin.com.


Society for Technical Communication

The STC is a professional organization specifically for technical writers and editors, content developers, graphic designers, Web designers, and other professionals who work in the broad category area of technical communication. To learn more about how you can benefit from what STC has to offer, technical communication, and the careers that are available in this field, click onto http://www.stc.org/.

Be sure your site is registered with the search engines

Let the search engines know about your site by registering the URL with them. You will likely need a corresponding email with the same domain address as the Web site URL. There is a short cut to many search engine registration sites at

http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.php so use it to make quick work of as much of the process as possible. Other sites you should register are http://www.dmoz.org/add.html, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34397, and http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html. At this writing they are free to register with, but that may change.