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Sara Horowitz, founder and Ed of Freelancers Union, speaks to economic realities of freelancers who make up 53 million adults, who are also voters. May 8, 2015

article by Dan Schawbel, Forbes, October 21, 2013. 6. Freelance nation booms. We keep hearing about the surplus of freelancers out there and it's just the beginning. Next year, there will be millions more freelancers, replacing full-time workers. Companies will hire experts to solve problems instead of full-time employees and save on benefit packages. This is due to the economy and how corporations operate now. One third of American workers are freelancers, reports NBC News.

really good advice for freelancers from Monika Jansen writing for Freelancers Union

By Laura Murphy, January 6, 2016. Some of it is building investment in Freelancers Union services. Also volunteering in community, finding a hobby, etc.

a course for $37 on being a freelancer

column by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, June 2016 on how workforce is becoming more freelance based

BestVendor Survey of Freelancers Around the World Demonstrates Rise of Cloud Apps August 16, 2012 -- NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 08/16/12 -- BestVendor today released the results of its "2012 Freelancer Survey" focusing on the most popular software and apps used by freelancers to manage their work.

great post by Susanna Gebauer on freelancers using social media, from September 18, 2014.

Interesting blog post bu Elizabeth MacBride, April 5, 2013, on virtual partnerships, 5 secrets 1. must have the same agenda 2. you actually like the person 3. complementary skill sets or traits 4. open lines of communications 5. good legal underpinnings Excerpt "Our number-one rule - and the glue that holds our partnership together - is keeping the workload manageable. We don't take on too many clients, and we don't hold ourselves to unrealistic standards for production. "Our business is focused on helping people navigate a big, ongoing trend-the shift from traditional jobs to an economy built around freelance, contract and temporary work. Pulling all-nighters at the business and cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world, as we might at a venture-capital backed startup, doesn't seem like the right way for us," Pofeldt says. "Why not enjoy one of the best parts of freelancing: the freedom to have an active life outside of work without apologizing for it?" Barry "CB" Martin and Larry Gaian are food writers and marketers-for-hire who met via their common networks. "This year I started several new ventures," Martin wrote via email. "I asked him to be a sounding board. On one of the ideas, he was thinking along the same lines so we decided to combine forces." They're working together under the moniker Guys In Aprons, asking food companies to hire them to write recipe posts and interview expert chefs."

Randstad offers four contract types: temp work, permanent work, project basis, freelance. Looks like each carries different conditions.

Mary Meeker's annual report on trends. Slides 109-112 on millennials work behavior and expectations and what they value are very interesting--training and development, flexible work hours, cash bonuses. Buy personal technology and use it in the workplace. Millennials much more likely to be on demand workers (4$%) than gen x, baby boomers, or mature workers. Slide 126 is on freelancer categories. Slide 127 is on how quickly freelancers can get work from internet. Slide 128 shows internet enabling commerce such as ebay Etsy, airbnb, upwork, uber, thumbtack, soundcloud, and stripe.

interesting list of tools, none of which I have heard of, although their functions make sense to me

good resource for ECO perhaps (or for me)

article by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes contributor, May 25, 2015, on 40% of the workforce working in "contingent" jobs as contractors, project employees, part-timers, on-call, agency temps, contract workers, etc. according to new GAO report.

freelance contract instrument and process by Freelancers Union

good ideas for setting up retainer projects as regular source of income

Our Vision -- One day 1 in 2 people will work online. Millions of businesses and freelancers will work through the workplace with the best selection of talent, jobs and tools. Elance will be that workplace. Connecting the world through work

Freelance Economy defined by Jacob Morgan, under 8 minutes in Berlin, July 13, 2015.

I like the requirements on the freelance gig Modern Tribe advertises for on this page. I clicked on this heading on our WordPress dashboard wondering if they might offer the technical support that we need.

good statement by Steve Folland on when to say no, February 9, 2016