Training
NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.

September 2, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Networking as a Way to Settle into a New Home
with Ruth Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking Expert
Cost: $30
Belonging to NAIWE means understanding that networking is a valuable tool for success as an independent writer or editor. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking expert, will provide insights into how networking can make a new home in a new city and state more comfortable and welcoming on the professional level. She recently relocated from St. Louis to Albuquerque, and is finding her new environment both rewarding and challenging.

January 8 – February 26, 2026
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

March 5 – April 2, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $124
Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:
- marketing ideas
- setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
- branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
- developing and limiting social network connections
- overcoming cold calling fears
- developing processes for success.
Class Overview
- Marketing Goals
- Marketing Activities
- Branding
- Social Networking
- Cold Calling