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Managing Freelancers Without Losing Your Mind

posted on March 17, 2016

Non-profits often need specialized skills that don’t exist within their staff. You may depend on freelancers such as designers, writers, photographers, and videographers to help with your website and other communication channels. Often these outside people aren’t managed very well, and projects can become an unpleasant challenge.

The key to great relationships with outside talent is shared understanding. This leads to better project outcomes and less stress throughout the process for all.

We’ll review research I’ve conducted with freelancers through interviews and surveys. In this session you will learn:

– Pet peeves of the various types of freelancers
– Key actions to take to improve the manager-freelancer relationship
– Kickoff and post-mortem processes to improve each project

As soon as you walk out of the session, you will have tools and ideas to better your relationships with freelancers and consultants. Get great help without losing your mind!

Melissa Eggleston

Speaker Bio
As a consultant on content strategy and user experience, Melissa Eggleston helps people and organizations create user-friendly digital experiences with memorable content. In 1997, she wrote her first online stories about soccer and broke all the rules we now know about writing for the web.

She has developed online content for all types of organizations – from businesses in San Francisco to non-profits in New York City. She provides UX research and strategy for the UX-Shop in Durham, NC. Melissa previously worked for Duke University and Bloomberg News.

Filed Under: sessions, sessions 2016 Tagged With: content, freelancers, management, project managment, website

Comments

  1. Leandra Ganko says

    June 8, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Slides from the presentation.

  2. Judy Hallman says

    June 8, 2016 at 1:25 pm

  3. Judy Hallman says

    June 13, 2016 at 9:33 pm

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