Yahoo! Style Guide Contest Winners

After receiving an incredible 150 entries, we've chosen 15 winners in our Yahoo! Style Guide contest. These 15 contributors will receive a free hardbound copy of the Yahoo! Style Guide for their tutorials based on the YSG's lessons for Web writers.

Our winners are:

• Nancy Tracy, "Punctilious About Punctuation?"
• R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen, "Know Your Audience and Avoid Bias in Your Writing."
• Heather Laurendeau, "Guidelines for Writing Numbers on the Web from the Yahoo! Style Guide."
• Tonya Hillukka, "Web Writing: Develop Your Voice."
• Cathy A. Montville, "Build Writer Confidence: Expert Advice from the Yahoo! Style Guide Word List."
• Sylvia Cochran, "Online Reading Format Fundamentals from the Yahoo! Style Guide."
• Joy Smith, "Quick Tips and Tricks for Online Writing."
• Patti Walden, "Quotation Marks (" "): A Writing and Editing Tutorial Inspired by Yahoo! Style Guide."
• Laine Broxton, MBA-HRM, "How to Write for Yahoo! and Associated Content."
• Michele Starkey, "Headlines Should Whet the Appetite of a Hungry Web World."
• Cornelius Fortune, "Writing for the Web."
• Barbara Kellam-Scott, "Yahoo! Style Guide: Writing for the World."
• Marie Anne St. Jean, "Simple Techniques Put the Optimization in SEO."
• Chelsea Baldwin, "To-Be Verbs: An Online Writing Tutorial."
• Linda Ann Nickerson, "Web Writing Wonders- an Easy Tutorial on Titles for People."

Check out the full length announcement for more information, and don't forget to join us in congratulating the winners! Tutorials like these are showing the world what we already knew: There's an enormous amount of wisdom and knowledge about Web writing in our Contributor community.

Tutorial on AC's Calls for Content ™ CP Tool

Special thanks to Tori for putting this tutorial together!

We are excited to announce the details of our newest Calls for Content™ tool for Content Producers. We recently launched a function that sends CPs an email every time an Associated Content call is targeted to them - individually or as part of a group. All CPs will receive these C4C alert emails . We also launched a similar function that will email you each time you’re targeted with an AC Partner call.

We’ve encouraged you to complete your CP profiles so that it’s easier for us to target you with calls related to your interests and expertise(s). Once your profile is complete, you will be notified immediately that you’ve been targeted, and if you are logged in, you will be able to claim the call right from the email itself. The email will provide all the details of the call, just as when you view calls when you’re logged in on the site.

This tool can be extremely valuable to you, since many calls are released throughout the day at different times. We may release contest calls or breaking local news calls that need immediate attention. We also often release calls for urgent special projects and partner needs.

Log in to your Associated Content account today to complete your profile to make sure that you get the most accurately targeted AC Calls for Content™ Alert emails.

Ease the Pain of the Current Financial Crisis

Things are bad. Probably even worse than I can wrap my head around since nothing but bad news has been coming from Wall Street this week. The economy is in a slump, gas prices are high, the job market is shrinking...the list goes on.

But not everything is terrible! Things are still moving right along at Associated Content. Our CPs are working hard to supplement their incomes on AC. By answering calls for content and frequently submitting new video, text, and audio recordings, our busiest CPs are easing the strain on their bank accounts. If you're looking to up your earning, now is the time to join the ranks of our especially savvy CPs by taking extra steps to ensure that your content is optimized for search (SEO) so that your articles gather a lot of page views. Promote your content! Put links to your AC profile on your Facebook, Squidoo, Myspace, Twitter and other social network sites.

We have lots of lessons on how to optimize your earning potential in the Tutorials section of the Forum. If you have specific questions please post them in there, your fellow CPs are full of great advice and are always happy to help out. Hang tough through the bad news this week and keep working hard.