Training
NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.
January 7 – February 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $199
Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?
In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!
Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.
In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!
Class Overview
- Macro Basics
- Find and Replace
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Formatting a Word Document
- Find and Replace Macros
- Comments
- Combining Macros
- Advanced Macros
January 14, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Top 5 Easy Content Ideas for Book Editors
with Officially Social, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
If you struggle with figuring out what to post, this webinar makes it simple! Social media expert and CEO of Officially Social, Alison Lukin, gives her top five EASY content ideas for book editors and writers to keep followers engaged. She’ll help you create informative yet exciting posts for your feed to attract more business. There will also be a special offer just for NAIWE members!
February 24, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Intro to Writing About Travel
with Jennia D’Lima, NAIWE’s Creative Nonfiction Expert
Cost: $30
Writers interested in recounting their journeys have various options available to them, including travelogues and multimedia accounts of globe-spanning adventures. But which form is the best fit for what they’d like to share? Does an account of cheese tasting across France need the same amount of depth and detail as a story about a six-month long retelling of a hike through each of Canada’s provinces? In this webinar, we’ll learn about some of the most popular forms of travel writing and look at how narrowing down your topic will help you choose a form and identify your audience.
March 4 – April 1, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $124
Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:
- marketing ideas
- setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
- branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
- developing and limiting social network connections
- overcoming cold calling fears
- developing processes for success.
Class Overview
- Marketing Goals
- Marketing Activities
- Branding
- Social Networking
- Cold Calling