Abbey Anne’s Blog

As much as I am loving spending a few weeks enjoying the RARE and beautiful weather we are having at the moment, I am also conscious that there are so many ways to get yourself known before having a job.

Social networking sites are a key tool in enabling you to find and contact famous and well known professionals, as well as getting your name out there.

Rather than using immeasurable updates make sure every single update is interesting, and lets people know a little about you or your work.

Here are my top tips for making the most of your free time:

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The term magazine is generally acknowledged to have come into usage with a publication in the 1730s of ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ by Edward Cave. Its aim was to entertain with stories of crime and romance, soon proving popular, not just for sale but for rental in public houses, coffee houses and barber shops. The Lady’s Magazine, a female counterpart, was quickly published, and from then on magazines began to establish themselves as demand for the new style of publication increased.

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I cannot believe that university fees are set to increase YET again, a recent BBC survey of universities in England and Wales suggests most would like to put their fees up to at least £5,000 a year.

The government surely cannot expect students to take on such high levels of debt, at such an early age. As a student myself I regularly feel the pressure that the current £3000+ fees entail. Surely dissuading potential graduates in this way will not help the economy- especially in its current credit crunch crisis.

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Suggest to an old-school journalist that weblogs have anything to do with journalism, and you’ll be met with a wail of disdain. Amateur bloggers typically have no editorial oversight, no training in the craft, and no respect for the news media’s rules and standards. Does the free-for-all renegade publishing form known as blogging really have anything to do with journalism? Well, yes it does. 

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