 NEEDSer Newsflash
It makes SENSEMay 1, 2010 Ragini Werner has been elected the new Membership Secretary of SENSE, the Society of English-Native-Speaking Editors in the Netherlands. In this role Ragini joins a tailor-made team of language professionals on the Executive Committee of SENSE, chaired by communications specialist Lesley Walker, for the period 2010-2013. As a society with considerable collective experience, SENSE welcomes as members English-language professionals working in or with connections to the Netherlands. Download the informative SENSE flyer by clicking on this purple link if you are interested in joining SENSE. If you already are a member of SENSE, and haven't already done so, feel free to join the SENSE Group on LinkedIn so that the SENSE logo displays on your LinkedIn profile. Out now: Top tips (1)February 1, 2010 This month our Bashful Blagger starts a brand new series called Top Tips for Freelancers. Part one begins: There are two certain Ds in a freelancer’s life. The first one, the big D, happens to us all in the end. Little D in the freelancer’s lexicon stands for Dry, as in Dry Spells, those unplanned periods without work that strike deadly fear into the freelancer's heart.... If you’re wondering how to survive a dry spell, read more here. Spam jamAugust 27, 2009 Back from the beach – at last! – and straight back to work. Well nearly... Find out what fun and spamusing games the Blagger got up to first, before settling down to work in earnest. Show and tellAugust 6, 2009 The Bashful Blagger is on a summer holiday break this week, so for a change here's some summer "horror-day" reading instead. Delicate readers, beware! Show and Tell features some gruesome content! Let's play Linko!July 30, 2009 The Blagger puts down her pen this week and says, Let's play Linko! <-- Click there for a winning round-up of links on writing, language and life in the fast lane of freelancing. You won't regret it! NanobloggingJuly 23, 2009 This week the Blagger raves about nanoblogging, nerdy words and life after tweets. What more fun could you want? Read the post right now, right here! Free styleJuly 16, 2009 Bashful Blagger just got bitten by a shark. Does she live to tell the tale? Find out by reading this week's episode, Free style. And while you're there, discover the bonus introduction to one of the best free style guides to writing in academia. And so forthJuly 11, 2009 This week the Blagger takes a look at the incredible shrinking economy and suggests that maybe it's time we all started speaking "inflationary language". At least it would give us a good laugh. Find out which Great Dane invented this fun language here. Enjoy! O brave new wordJuly 2, 2009 O brave new Blagger, what beauteous words are you exploring this goodly week? Read the new episode now, you won't regret it! Length mattersJune 26, 2009 Do you believe that polysyllables pack more punch? Are you convinced that Big Words = Big Brains? If you stick to using long words, will people think you are smarter than other writers? Is this making your hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia play up? Find the cure -- based on empirical evidence -- in the latest episode of the Bashful Blagger: Length matters. Kiwi accentJune 18, 2009 The Bashful Blagger goes back to her roots and explains why she has two homelands, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The two countries may be as far apart as you can get in this world, but they share a strong connection, both historical and sentimental. So that explains the Blagger's accent! Listen to a good old Kiwi accent (amongst many others) right here! Cross wordJune 12, 2009 What is the one perfect word the Bashful Blagger uses to cross telemarketers when they won't take NO for an answer? And -- calling all editors -- how many words can you edit an hour? Can you beat the Blagger's editing speed benchmarks (courtesy of David McClintock of Wordsupply)? Find the answers to both of these questions in this week's episode of the Bashful Blagger! Sex symbolJune 4, 2009 Are you as hot for words as the Bashful Blagger's replacement for this week? Watch and listen to what a sexy teacher in linguistics and entymology has to say about the origins of the name of a very small but very useful symbol in the English language. You won't regret meeting Marina Orlova, my dear students, and that's a promise! Star trackMay 28, 2009 It's true confession time for the Bashful Blagger in this week's episode. Don't miss your opportunity to track the star's changes! Family matters May 21, 2009 Who is to blame for the Bashful Blagger's sad penchant for purple puns & predictable prose? At last, this week's shockingly familiar episode reveals all. Parental guy, dance. Don't miss it! NEEDSer newsletterMay 17, 2009 Every once in a while we send out a NEEDSer Newsflash newsletter to business friends and relations. If you would like to be on the list of subscribers please send an e-mail to rdw@needser with "NEEDSer Newsflash" in the subject line. Thanks, foBBies!May 17, 2009 Last Thursday we expressed a vote of thanks to the very many recipients of the latest NEEDSer Newsflash who wrote back saying how much they were enjoying reading NEEDSer's blog, the Bashful Blagger. It's early days yet, the blog has only been going since last February, and that makes it so encouraging to hear that it already has a great many fans ("foBBies") including a fast-growing number of subscribers. Roll on the day when there will be a Bashful Blagger social community, with foBBies interacting through the on-line comments facility. Talking of comments -- or should that be comets? -- what was Halley's comment? Find out by reading last week's episode of the Bashful Blagger. And while you're at it, consider this question: Are you comments welcome? What do you think? Asking questions?May 8, 2009 This week NEEDSer's Bashful Blagger dips into the treasure trove of Sense and pulls out a couple of questions of the sort typically posed on the Sense forum. An entertaining and informative posting, as usual! Don't miss reading Emma Chisit. Orange everywhere April 30, 2009 Today's date marks Queens Day in the Netherlands, a national holiday that celebrates the birthday of Queen Beatrix's very popular mother, Queen Juliana, and Beatrix's own succession to the throne in 1980. It's a day filled with revelry, fun and the colour orange, all over the country. Find out why the Dutch turn orange on Koninginnedag in the latest posting from the Bashful Blagger, Cryptic colour. Shake ya bootyApril 23, 2009 This week NEEDSer's blog discloses a) why it's not such a bad thing if someone calls you 'main chance', b) where the Bashful Blagger has been landing, traveling round the online world marketing the business, and 3) what the hidden connection between a native-English 'freelancer' and a native-Dutch 'vrijbuiter' is. All this, and more on Free booty. Make sure you don't miss it! Hermit at homeApril 16, 2009 This week NEEDSer's blog reveals why the Bashful Blagger and so many neighbours in the Dutch village of Thesinge -- including the prize-winning travel and nature photographer Gerard Kingma -- more or less correctly call themselves professional hermits. Make sure you don't miss it! Senseless gobbledygookApril 9, 2009 This week NEEDSer's Bashful Blagger gives a shameless plug to SENSE, the Society of English-Native-Speaking Editors, in a typically funny and interesting rant on the convoluted language of bureaucrats, Deep gobbledy joy. Make sure you don't miss it! "Ezine" updateMarch 27, 2009 NEEDSer now has five articles up and running on EzineArticles.com. The informative series is proving to be very popular with readers from all over the world. Check these articles out for yourself by clicking now on "The ABCs of Self-Editing". Expert authorMarch 10, 2009 NEEDSer’s Ragini Werner has become an expert author on EzineArticles.com with the publication of two original articles in her field of expertise: text revision. EzineArticles.com is an established and popular American website. In business since 1999, this “Mothership of Article Directories” attracts a daily audience of hundreds of thousands of unique visitors. This is potentially massive exposure for the articles published or syndicated by the site. But not every submission is successful. Quality matters. An editorial team reviews every single article and won’t hesitate to reject any that do not meet the editorial guidelines. The editors also double check vital aspects (grammar, spelling, no dead links, etc.) to ensure editorial integrity. NEEDSer’s third article is currently undergoing editorial review while another two articles are in the works. Click now on NEEDSer at EzineArticles.com to explore our new informative series for writers entitled “The ABCs of Self-Editing”. We AIM to pleaseMarch 8, 2009 AIM is the fastest-growing search engine in the world--its network already consists of some 750 specialized search sites. The NEEDSer site is listed on AIM as well as several other search engines, including Google and Yahoo. We welcome feedback from visitors to our site and, for starters, invite you to rate our listing on AIM. You can do so by clicking on the word "Rate" at the top of our Links page or right away here simply by clicking on Rate Us. NEEDSer ranks high in Google DirectoryMarch 6, 2009 Google Directory rates NEEDSer as “a high quality site worth checking out.” The 1.5 million URLs listed in the directory are ordered according to their importance, as determined by Google's patented PageRank technology. This ensures that the most relevant and highly regarded sites are not buried deep inside an alphabetical listing. NEEDSer is ranked close to the top--second--in the category “Editing & Proofreading > Europe”. This puts us above all but one competitor in the UK and ahead of all competitors on the continent, including sites in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Google is the search engine used most often in the Netherlands, so the top ranking is great news for Dutch clients. It is relatively easy for them to find and identify NEEDSer as a top quality, native-English editing service. Announcing "The Bashful Blagger" March 5, 2009 As the saying goes, "you should never mix business with pleasure". That's why we've decided to turn this former BLOGSer page into a less frivolous news service that will keep you posted on "business" aspects and advances at NEEDSer. But don't worry, all the "pleasure" hasn't entirely gone. It's just that the old BLOGSer has been given a makeover and moved to new site with a brand new name: The Bashful Blagger. Go here to catch up with NEEDSer's fun life in the fast lane of freelancing. The Bashful Blagger is updated every Thursday. The latest installment, "Just a Mi stake" was uploaded today. Don't miss it! Wie is NEEDSer? ESPECIALLY for our Dutch readers, this neighbourly interview, published in a local newspaper, features NEEDSer's own Ragini Werner. Go here to read it (Dutch only). NEEDSer Kiwi? ESPECIALLY for our English readers, can you spot the connection? Go here to read this cheerful essay.
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