Editors work in quiet confidence. Our job is to help writers to speak with clarity, accuracy, and sometimes even flair. In so doing, our own voices are silent, and our perspectives unheard. The best copyedits are the ones a reader can’t see.
Because of the editor’s invisibility, putting together online portfolios of editing work can be challenging, as we may feel uncomfortable revealing a client’s pre-edited work in order to show what a difference we made. Yet by collecting curated examples of our work, online portfolios provide essential evidence to support the claims we make about our editing skillsets.
In this 90-minute webinar, we’ll discuss how to make a good online portfolio of work—one that showcases your efficacy as an editor while respecting your clients’ confidentiality. Good online portfolios help our clients to understand our work, and enable us to observe and reflect on our own often-invisible practice. The benefits they bring in helping our websites to move up the Google ranks are simply a bonus; the real wins are for our credibility, both as individual editors and as members of a profession.
In my opinion, there’s little but benefit when we make our invisible work easier to see by putting our portfolios online. Clients appreciate being able to see what our work can look like, and we likewise gain when we take a deep look into our practice and process. Read more from my 2021 post in The Editors Weekly.
