Sentences with phrase «in author advocacy»

And we hear, in our related Discussion piece, from a self - styled «literary change agent,» openly and determinedly testing the boundaries of what's considered appropriate in author advocacy.

Organizations like the Independent Book Publishers Association are already taking strides in their author advocacy for all authors to bring issues like these to the forefront, but the only way to level the playing field and to eradicate discrimination in publishing circles is to name it when you see it.

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«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

CMO of Branderati and author of Think Like Zuck, EKaterina Walter explores the emerging employee advocacy movement in this post: Want to find brand ambassadors?

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and author of: Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins) is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

Award - winnning author, L.R.Knost, is the founder and director of the children's rights advocacy and family consulting group, Little Hearts / Gentle Parenting Resources, and Editor - in - Chief of Holistic Parenting Magazine.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

He is the author of over 300 journal articles, book chapters and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors, including the T. Berry Brazelton Infant Mental Health Advocacy Award, the Award for Leadership in Public Child Welfare and the Alberta Centennial Medal.

Many Epolitics.com guest authors have used the site as a springboard for their careers in online advocacy and politics, and you can be the next.

Senator who authored NY's first property tax cap and has championed state spending cap and small business relief measures hailed for «tireless advocacy» on behalf of small businesses who create most of the jobs in our economy

In that spirit, your TechBytes author has launched a new consulting practice, aiming to use my 15 - plus years of experience in the field to help electoral and advocacy campaigns leverage the power of online and digital tools to achieve their goalIn that spirit, your TechBytes author has launched a new consulting practice, aiming to use my 15 - plus years of experience in the field to help electoral and advocacy campaigns leverage the power of online and digital tools to achieve their goalin the field to help electoral and advocacy campaigns leverage the power of online and digital tools to achieve their goals.

«While most studies show there are no significant differences in clinical response between a biosimilar and the original product, some physicians and patient advocacy groups have expressed concern about how interchangeable they really are, and whether it is safe to switch from the brand name version to the biosimilar,» said lead author Dr Daniel Nagore of Progenika Biopharma, Derio, Spain.

The study, released in February, was criticized earlier this week when an advocacy group highlighted the financial ties of its lead author to an energy company.

The results show why appeals to morality by politicians and advocacy groups can be so effective, said Andrew Luttrell, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in psychology at The Ohio State University.

«The findings highlight the importance of having a supply of epinephrine available in schools, and people trained to administer it during an allergy emergency,» said Michael Pistiner, MD, MMSc, FAAP, and author of the abstract and Director of Food Allergy Advocacy, Education and Prevention at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) in Boston.

The authors rely mainly on newspaper articles to make their arguments, with a smattering of books and advocacy - group reports thrown in.

In this informative webinar based on their recent book, Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices, the authors will discuss the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of successful high - poverty schools: (1) caring relationships and advocacy, (2) high expectations and support, (3) commitment to equity, (4) professional accountability for learning, and (5) the courage and will to act.

This is in no way any sort of political issue for me, nor associated with any sort of author advocacy cause.

That's why IBPA's Advocacy Committee recently published an Industry Standards Checklist for a Professionally Published Book — a two - page document developed to support independent publishers and self - published authors, but also to urge an industry in flux to acknowledge that books ought to be judged on their substance rather than their business model.

Self - published authors have done a lot of advocacy to be considered professional authors in the last few years, and as a result of that, self - publication is now counted as publication for the purposes of award eligibility.

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

This ban resulted in outrage and protests, but so far the government has refused to even meet with authors or members of advocacy organizations.

The Alliance of Independent Authors is an advocacy organization that works to further self - publishing in the book industry.

Our advocacy work supports authors» rights and their ability to earn a living in the changing publishing landscape.

But most of our time focused on author groups, to provide us with the opportunity to improve our understanding of their concerns in the ebook era and articulate our concerns so that we may identify areas of common interest, for which we might engage in collaborative advocacy.

In what is sure to be viewed as a stigma - erasing coup for indie authors, book discovery and indie advocacy site IndieReader announced its partnership today with one of the most well - known and respected literary agencies, Dystel & Godrich Literary Management.

However, despite increased interest in hybrid publishing from both publishers and authors alike, the IBPA Advocacy Committee could find no unifying, satisfactory description of what defines and is expected of a reputable hybrid publisher.

Do look into this concept of a consortium or collective of authors (and radical advocacy — as in Ashlock's work with this Rogue Reader group — should surely be a big part of that approach, each collective will need major agent - managerial support).

I'm here to argue that we should not only care about fair contracts in trade publishing, we should actively support the advocacy efforts of our sister author organisations:

I'd like to see something of the «organized advocacy» Howey talks about for authors, so there's a more coherent, comprehensive representation of the interests of authors in place.

Is an effective effort in advocacy for entrepreneurial authors possible with the numbers battle as a basis?

Those who followed the debut of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Author (R) evolution Day conference in New York last month are familiar, for example, with agent Jason Allen Ashlock's positioning of this new stance as the «radical advocacy» of an industry professional whose partnership with clients can take on new depths and collaborative detail.

Soloway, an energetic and clarifying voice well known in LGBTQ advocacy today, is one of the most visibly empowered women focused on by Simon & Schuster / Atria Books author Joy Press in her new book Stealing the Show: How Women are Revolutionizing Television.

Toronto's Book Summit 16, at mid-month, was presented by the Book and Periodical Council and Humber College, and brought together several representatives of advocacy groups for a needed exchange on authors» prospects in a fast - changing business.

Yep, you're right, and it's a special event, really, when somebody is able to help a lot of folks in such a diverse community come together for «organized advocacy» of each other's interests, as the Author Earnings site puts it.

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What this does mean is that authors, at the broadest level, have trouble with organized advocacy because they're all working as individual operatives out in the deep field, often far from the centers of publishing power.

I've asked Howey if, in fact, he thinks that an author - advocacy effort like Author Earnings could have been mounted before the substantial rise we see today of the entrepreneurial - author dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual suauthor - advocacy effort like Author Earnings could have been mounted before the substantial rise we see today of the entrepreneurial - author dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual suAuthor Earnings could have been mounted before the substantial rise we see today of the entrepreneurial - author dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual suauthor dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual support.

It's an obvious moment in which author advocacy is critical.

This new multi-national coalition among at least 26 author - advocacy associations may finally signal, in 2016, that eye - rolling is no longer an acceptable response to these demands for responsible business dealings with authors.

In the US, the most mature market, independent authors are now collectively earning more from e-books than authors handled by the so - called Big Five publishers, according to advocacy website Author Earnings.

ALLi Award — The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) named Smashwords its service provider of the year, in recognition for the depth and breadth of our distribution capabilities, our advocacy for authors and our relentless commitment to continuous service improvement to empower the success of indie authors worAuthors (ALLi) named Smashwords its service provider of the year, in recognition for the depth and breadth of our distribution capabilities, our advocacy for authors and our relentless commitment to continuous service improvement to empower the success of indie authors worauthors and our relentless commitment to continuous service improvement to empower the success of indie authors worauthors worldwide.

Redemption is based on the book of the same name, and author and No Kill Advocacy Center Director Nathan Winograd will be a featured presenter at the conference, along with other leading experts in sheltering and shelter medicine.

And in 1931, Matisse was the subject of the Museum of Modern Art's first monographic exhibition, organized by its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., whose continued advocacy of Matisse (organizing a larger retrospective, and authoring a substantial monograph in 1951) solidified Matisse's relevance to a younger generation — right as the New York art scene was on its way to replace Paris as the art capital of the world.

With two daughters in tow, author Mallory McDuff traveled across the country to document diverse environmental actions grounded in faith, from installing solar panels at Kanuga Camp and Conference Center to training parishioners in environmental advocacy through the organization Earth Ministry.

And then there's the issue of hypocrisy when, as observed earlier by Judith Curry, «employees of green advocacy groups can participate as authors of the IPCC reports (without apparent criticism), but a non-advocate scientist [like Lennart Bengtsson] can not participate in a (non-green) think tank without censure from scientist colleagues... Honest brokers are to be preferred over advocates; but the real problem arises when advocates seek to stifle scientific and policy debates.»

The author argues that public statements in such a situation are inevitably advocacy for some position, view, or outcome.

The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.

Part II will describe an example of one way in which the author built on these ideas by pairing one section of the required second - semester Advocacy course with a first - year elective seminar in Public Health Law.

This «Note» will therefore assert that the authors» position is that creating legal documents in which these factors are exhibited is of paramount importance in legal writing and, in most situations, is a necessary component of effective advocacy.