The Shift: Issue #21
#CopyCon2020 – Top tips for being a successful copywriter; Death to perfectionism; Blogging for business; UX jobs – design systems are the new frontier.
"8 hours of copywriting gold" – 10 speakers, 8 training days, satellite sessions, poetry, illustration, networking, cats…🐱 ProCopywriters' 7th annual conference and 100% online for the first time.
It's my first one, so I had nothing to compare it to, but it was a fantastic event – inspiring talks (9 female speakers) and seamless tech. I'm still using the app (Attendify) to replay videos and download docs. If there's one good thing to come out of all this madness, it's being able to do online training that I wouldn't have been able to afford. No travel costs and you can listen in while you work or on the go. I can't sit at a desk all day, so I did a walking Zoom to break it up.
Add-ons - it would have been great to have a Slack channel to get things started as "It's where the magic happens" says @Halvorson (& she's run a conference or two). It would be a great way to keep in touch between events. Slack is about to add insta-like Stories and audio calls to cut down on video calls and bri…
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