April 16, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Taking Next Steps: Growing an Independent Writing or Editing Business
with Ruth Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking Expert
Cost: $30
Many NAIWE members have been in business for several years, but nowadays, some might be feeling a little bored or burnt out, some have lost clients due to AI, some are experiencing stalemate, some seek new challenges — and all of us want to see our businesses not just survive but grow and expand. In our April webinar, longtime freelance writer/editor/proofreader Ruth E. Thaler-Carter will provide suggestions for taking an independent communications business to the next level and position ourselves for growth through new directions.
Ruth has been freelancing since high school and full-time since 1984. Over the years, she has expanded her writing business to include editing, proofreading, and speaking, and a diversity of topics. She has great insights into how to develop new skills and services to make an independent business go beyond static and toward sustainability.
She is the Networking member of the NAIWE Board of Experts, among several other association memberships, and will include perspectives on how active networking and membership can contribute to growing an independent communications business.
May 14, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: APA Style and AI: What Copyeditors Need to Know
with Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Copyeditors today benefit from understanding AI tools and how authors may be using them. Beyond the basics, copyeditors should consider questions like the following: What are typical academic and/or publisher policies on the use of generative AI? How can authors best ensure transparency about their use of generative AI? Do authors need to include their AI prompts in text or in references? How are AI tools or AI chats cited? In this webinar, an APA Style expert will share and discuss APA Style guidelines for citing generative AI, with scenarios and examples that address these questions. In addition, the presenter will highlight some additional seventh edition APA Style guidelines of interest to copyeditors and tips for using APA Style online resources.
January 7 – February 25, 2027
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $199
Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?
In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!
Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.
In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!
Class Overview
- Macro Basics
- Find and Replace
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Formatting a Word Document
- Find and Replace Macros
- Comments
- Combining Macros
- Advanced Macros