Membership in NAIWE can propel your business forward!When you join a national professional organization, you immediately begin to reap the benefit of the group's marketing plan. In addition, there are many intangible benefits such as increased credibility and expanded networking opportunities.
NAIWE believes that there should be tangible benefits as well. We provide you with resources and information that will help you build your business to better serve your clients and create the life you want.
You'll want to start with Make the Most of Your Membership: A Quick-Start Guide to NAIWE. This handy guide provides a brief overview of the benefits you receive, along with step-by-step instructions for accessing everything. You'll be off and running in no time!
Your own easy-to-use WordPress-blog-based business web site!
You've probably read about how a strong presence on the web can build your business, but you may not have wanted to spend a lot of time and money creating a website from the ground up. Now, when you join NAIWE, you will get the professionally-designed web site you've wanted! Adding content to your site is as easy as typing an e-mail, and we provide simple instructions that will get you started.
Your site, with the memorable web address of www.YourName.NAIWE.com, includes:
Home page where you can introduce your business and your approach to evaluation
Portfolio pages, for testimonals, references, and samples of previous work
Your profile, including education and experience
New clients will easily find you in NAIWE's free searchable database! As soon as you have posted information on your NAIWE site (Benefit #1), you will be added to the NAIWE Find-a-Writer-or-Editor database.
The Resource Library provides articles and other instructional resources to help your skills and and your business grow faster than ever before. Topics include:
The opportunity to publicize your business by contributing to naIWE's popular ‘Weekly Writing Tip’ autoresponder. When potential clients sign up for NAIWE's free weekly writing tip, they receive a brief writing tip in their e-mail. As a member-sponsor, you may contribute a writing-related tip or quote, along with short promotional text about your business and a link to your personal NAIWE website (see Benefit #1). Your tip, along with your promotional information, will appear to everyone who signs up for the Weekly Writing Tip for as long as you remain a member of NAIWE.
The opportunity to be featured on NAIWE's home page and on the NAIWE NewsWire blog as the Member of the Month. This benefit offers tremendous promotional potential for your business. Member of the Month interviews will be archived on the site for as long as you remain a member of NAIWE. Each interview will provide an opportunity for you to share your business story with potential clients,
Use and contribute to the Rubric Library for academic evaluators. Rubrics have reshaped the academic evaluation process, making evaluations simpler for evaluators, and more useful for students. We hope to gather the world's largest library of rubrics on the NAIWE site for use by NAIWE members.
Get and share ideas in the Evaluation Phrase Idea Bank to help you work with sensitive clients. Have you ever searched for a tactful way to suggest necessary changes to a client? Have you ever had a client misunderstand your evaluative comments? The Evaluation Phrase Idea Bank is designed as a continually evolving resource that will help you find the exact phrase you need to help a client understand changes that would strengthen his or her work. You can share in the NAIWE community by submitting your favorite phrases (which will appear in the member area with a link to your NAIWE website), and learning from the useful phrases offered by others.
NAIWE Rolodex- A handy guide to the best available online and offline information resources for writing evaluators. You'll have quick access to:
Be a part of the NAIWE community network by contributing to the NAIWE NewsWire blog. The news, tips, and ‘Funny Bits’ (amusing writing gaffes spotted in public places), you share become part of the NAIWE community, and provide a way for members to get acquainted and learn from one another.
Publicize your business by contributing articles and editorials in the twice-monthly "The Edge: Success Strategies for People Who Work With Words " e-zine. Members and prospective clients can subscribe to "The Edge" and the articles you submit become one more way to introduce yourself to fellow members and promote your services to prospective clients.
Learn from downloadable MP3 training workshops, interviews, and teleseminars.
Access to the secure NAIWE Directory so that you can network with other evaluators in your specialty.
Membership dues are $147 for one year.