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Who Vs Whom — Differences and When To Use Each

Posted on September 8, 2022 By Michael Blackwood
The difference between “who” and “whom” stumps a lot of people—experienced writers and grammatical newbs alike. “Who vs. whom” is one of the most commonly Googled usage questions, with almost fifty thousand searches a month! Does the Difference between Who and Whom Matter? Perhaps because of this uncertainty, most of us don’t even bother with […]...
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The Top 7 Content Editing Tools

Posted on August 25, 2022 By John Doherty
Just like writers, editors have their own set of tools that they use to make good content great. Even if you’re more of a self-styled writer who edits their own work, there are tools that can help you write better so that your editing is better too.  After all, great editing starts with great writing. […]...
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The Best Content Marketing Agencies for 2023

Posted on August 2, 2022 By John Doherty
When you’re investing in content marketing as a growth strategy, at some point you will find that you’re unable to handle creating all of the needed content in-house. You could look for some freelancers to work with. You’ll find that finding them is a challenge, but so is managing quality and payment to each one. […]...
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How To Save A Google Doc As A PDF

Posted on July 25, 2022 By John Doherty
When you’ve created a document in Google Docs, sometimes you need to save it as a PDF for a certain reason. Maybe it is a legal contract that you do not want to be changed and you need to send it to someone for a signature. Maybe the document is meant to be printed out, […]...
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How To Edit Your Own Writing

Posted on July 5, 2022 By John Doherty
One of the more common questions we get at EditorNinja is if a writer can edit their own content. Usually this is asked because the company is trying to save money and do “good enough for now” to keep good enough content going out at a consistent cadence. This is why we built EditorNinja, by […]...
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What Is A Managing Editor and What Do They Do?

Posted on June 28, 2022 By John Doherty
If you’re working in publishing or content marketing, you’ve probably heard the term “managing editor.” If you’re like me, you’ve heard it a lot but you still aren’t quite sure what “managing editor” refers to and what their job role is. This is completely understandable, because like most words in the marketing space the term […]...
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How To Create A Table Of Contents In Google Docs

Posted on May 25, 2022 By John Doherty
When you’re drafting content to share with others, sometimes it’s helpful to have a table of contents with Google Docs that people can use to navigate. Google Docs fortunately makes this very easy if you know where to look. This article will outline the following: How to create a table of contents in Google Docs […]...
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What Is A Content Editor and What Can They Do For You?

Posted on May 24, 2022 By John Doherty
Need a content editor for your content so you can focus on higher value activities? Our data shows that we can save agencies and in-house content managers over a month of work every year when you outsource your editing to us.  Schedule a free editorial assessment to learn more about how EditorNinja works. Are you wondering […]...
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New in EditorNinja: Add Brand Documents By Site

Posted on May 16, 2022 By John Doherty
When you’re working with an editor, it’s important that they have access to content documents such as writer and editor briefs as well as company style guides. To this point in EditorNinja’s existence, we’ve asked customers to include these links in each individual document’s brief so that the editor has access. Today that changes! We’ve […]...
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Introducing Word Bundles

Posted on May 12, 2022 By John Doherty
One of my cardinal rules of building companies is listening to what people want to buy. If I hear it once, then I note it down. If I hear it twice, I pay attention. And if I hear it three times, then I know it’s time to think seriously, scope and prioritize, and ultimately build […]...
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Difference between writer and editor

What Is The Difference Between A Writer And An Editor?

Posted on May 10, 2022 By John Doherty
If, after you’ve finished this article, you’ve decided you need an editor, we’d love to speak with you at EditorNinja. We’re a beloved content editing service, and would love to work with you to help you produce better content. You can schedule a free Editorial Assessment here when you’re ready. As companies produce and publish […]...
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When Should You Send A Document Back To A Writer?

Posted on May 5, 2022 By John Doherty
One of the challenges a lot of companies, especially content agencies, deal with is the hand off between writers and editors and who is responsible for what. Before we get into that, let’s define the difference between a writer and an editor. Writers are responsible for taking a content brief and turning it into an […]...
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What Are The Six Different Types Of Editing?

Posted on May 3, 2022 By John Doherty
The six types of editing are: Before publishing any piece of content, it’s advisable to have an editor take a pass over the document to help make it as good as possible. But not every piece of content needs the same depth or type of editing. A social media post, for example, will likely simply […]...
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Should “Fiction” Be Capitalized?

Posted on April 28, 2022 By John Doherty
Capitalization is one of the bears of grammar, and people get it wrong all the time. So here’s a clear answer about fiction (and other nouns that are not proper): Fiction should not be capitalized when it is used in a sentence, as it is a genre and therefore a noun. It is not a […]...
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How to add Grammarly to Google Docs

Posted on April 27, 2022 By John Doherty
Grammarly is the leader in grammar editing software and works amazingly in Google Docs. In fact, we use it here at EditorNinja to make the lives of our editors easier as they conduct their final proofreading reviews of submitted documents before returning them to customers (interested in becoming a customer? Schedule a demo.). Grammarly is […]...
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The Best Content Writing Services of 2023

Posted on April 21, 2022 By John Doherty
Content writing and content editing go hand in hand, just like peanut butter (or almond butter in my case) and jelly. Just like you should outsource editing to EditorNinja, you may also need to outsource your content writing to a content writing service that you can trust. There are a lot of content writing services […]...
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