About the conference
ACES Accelerate was a two-day virtual conference held September 21–22, 2022. It connected editors, communication professionals, and language experts from around the world.
The program offered 41 sessions at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels, plus sessions for editors at any career stage. Sessions were prerecorded and followed by a live chat and Q&A with the speakers.
Coffee Chats made their debut at this conference. These 30-minute small-group discussions brought together editors in freelance, academic, print and digital, corporate, and management roles.
Keynote speaker
Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Bloggess, delivered the keynote on September 22, returning to the ACES stage virtually.
Her session at ACES Emerge earlier in 2022 inspired an impromptu live auction of her book Broken, which raised over $500 for the ACES Education Fund.
Lawson is an award-winning humorist known for her candor about her struggle with mental illness. Her books Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy were both #1 New York Times bestsellers.
Sessions
- #EditingForSocialMedia — Lauren Filippini
- 14 Tips for Editing Data Visualizations — Tracy Cook
- An Editor’s Guide to Minority Languages — Katya Jenson
- Automated Assessment of the Quality of Copyediting — Yateendra Joshi
- Boost Your Editing Speed and Confidence With Macros — Jennifer Yankopolus and Paul Beverley
- Business Data for Freelance Editors: Improve Your Working Practices and Run Your Business With Confidence — Maya Berger
- Content Marketing: What It Is and How To Edit It — Alysha Love
- Doing It All: The Ups and Downs of Being a Multipotentialite Editor — Emily Stewart
- Editing for Bias—An Actual System That Works — Laura Standley
- Editing for Corporate Marketing Communications: Getting It Done While Getting It Right — Judy Wallace
- Editing Gender — Julie Kliegman
- Editing High-Tech Marketing Content: Tips and Tricks — Charmaine Cooper Hussain
- Editing Technical Writing When You’re Not Technically a Technical Expert — Jen McGovern
- Editing Without Tears (From the Editor or the Author) — Merrill Perlman
- Ethical Editing: How To Follow, Break, and Change the Rules — Rachael Lussos and Nupoor Ranade
- Everyone Needs an Editor: A Panel Discussion on Jobs in Editing — Tracy Cook
- Foundations of Productivity — Sagan Morrow
- Get Into a Long-Term Relationship With Your Clients — Michelle Waitzman
- Grammar Obscura — Lisa McLendon
- Grammar Table: Takin’ It to the Streets — Ellen Jovin
- Hedge Fun: How To Be Vague With Precision — Brad Scriber
- How To Write About Immersive, VR, and Metaverse Experiences — Eve Weston
- Indexing 101 — Heather Pendley
- Is It Line Editing, Copyediting, or Proofreading? Defining the Language Editor’s Roles — Susannah Noel
- Is That a Typo? How To Develop a Multilingual House Style Guide — Madalena Sánchez Zampaulo
- Level Up Your Editing Business: What Do You Do When You’re Done Getting Started? — Tanya Gold, Antonn Park, Kristen Tate, and Rachel Fudge
- Lost in a Sea of Words: Mapping Your Way to a Stronger Story — Christina M. Frey
- More Than Plain Talk: The Surprising Variety of Government Editing Gigs — Laura Cameron
- Ready, Set, Goals! — Alysha Love
- Say What You Mean: Avoiding Disability Euphemisms in News Stories — Wendy Lu and Cara Reedy
- The Indie Partnership: Working With Self-Publishing Authors — Christina M. Frey
- The More You Know: An Inside Look at Freelancer Recruitment — Jessica Lulka
- The Secret to Great Proofreading — Jessica DiDonato
- Updating Internal Style for Diversity and Inclusion — Michelle Rosenfeld
- Using Inclusive Language To Become a Better Editor — Chelsea Lee, Timothy McAdoo, Efua Andoh, Nadia Dawood, and Vanessa Hintz
- Using Text Expanders for Efficient Editing — Karin Horler
- We All Have Something To Teach: Expanding Your Business by Offering Courses — Kristen Tatroe, Tanya Gold, and Kristen Tate
- What Is Plagiarism? Putting Out Fires Around This Hot Topic — Vee White and Andrea Klingler
- What’s New in AP Style — Paula Froke and Colleen Newvine
- Working Smarter With the Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt — Daniel Heuman and Russell Harper
- Writing and Editing Market Content — Without All That Market Jargon — Jen Anderson
Sponsors
Thank you to the sponsors of ACES Accelerate.
