Changing How the World Works.
 
 
  • Feedback:   (4.43 of 5)
  • Percentile: 40%
    Based on 10 feedbacks
Hourly Rate: $16.67
Total oDesk hours:
1,334
Location:
Cebu, Philippines (GMT+08:00)
English Skills: (self-assessed)
5.0
Member Since:
May 22, 2007
Last Worked:
December 1, 2008
Current Assignments:
7
Total Assignments:
19
oDesk Ready:  
Yes
 
 
 
 

Philippa E. - Website Copy Writer/Editor - Freelance Technical Writer, Philippines

Seeking remote writing projects. Since joining Odesk in May 2007, I have worked on a wide variety of writing projects including web content, articles, blogs and case studies. I am familiar with the principles of SEO . I am also experienced in data entry and Internet research. A couple of my articles can be found by following these links:...
See All Work History & Feedback (19 items, 10 with Feedback)
Recent Work History & Feedback
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
23968 07/2008 - Present Web Content Production $105 (11 hrs @ $10.00)
25283 10/2007 - Present Writing for Blogs $8,306 (580 hrs @ $15.00)
60835 11/2008 - Present Writer - additional work on xorstudio $50 (3 hrs @ $16.67)
11766 06/2007 - Present Article Writer $3,940 (350 hrs @ $11.11)
47050 06/2008 - Present Newsletter Copywriter $224 (12 hrs @ $19.44)
See All Tests Taken (10 items)
oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test Score Percentile Date Taken Duration
English Test (Sentence Structure) 4.90 97% TOP 10% 05/22/2007 11 min
Technical Writing Skills Certification 4.00 95% TOP 10% 06/06/2007 32 min
MS Excel 2003 Test 2.85 75% 05/28/2007 26 min
Search Engine Optimization Test 2.60 69% 09/01/2008 39 min
Marketing Terminology Test 2.70 65% 08/21/2007 20 min
Recent Candidacies
Job Opening Title Initiated By Date
Copywriting Provider November 23, 2008
Excelent content writer Provider November 23, 2008
Regular Credit Crunch and Finance Related Articles Provider November 23, 2008
Marketing Analyst Report Writer Provider November 22, 2008
Job Category Interests

Writing

Administrative Support
Skills
Skill Experience Level Last Used Description
Tech Writer 4 yrs 5.0 2007 Over the past 4 years I have worked on a variety of writing and editing projects. I have written online articles, created educational learning materials and educational test preparation materials. I have also created and rewritten website copy.

Below, please find links to two examples of my recent work.
 

http://www.theperfectpint.com/article.php?article=19
Certifications
Date Earned Name Score Percentile Organization Description
2007 MS Excel 2003 Fundamentals 3.75 87% Brainbench —
Employment History
From To Company Title/Role Description
10/2007 Present Carve Consulting Web content/article writer / Independent Contributor Writing web content for various UK based consultancy firm's client's websites.
 Ghost writing blog articles commenting on relevant points of exisiting articles published in the press or topical business debates. 
11/2007 Present J. P. Morgan Chase Research writer / Independent Contributor Compiling reports about the state of the housing markets in various cities/states of the USA. This work involves collating information received from others and researching for the most up to date financial data.
Also included in the role is the preparation of the departmental weekly progress reports.
04/2008 Present British Castle.co.uk Writer/Editor/Link builder / Independent Contributor Writing and editting articles about British Castles.  These include a description of the castle and a historical timeline. At the end of August 2008 I became involved in link building for this project.
06/2007 Present Shuffle Co P.A./Article Writer / Independent Contributor

Shuffle Co is a relatively new Internet company. 

Responsibilities include:
Testing the company's websites to ensure all features work correctly.
Contacting members to assist them in uploading their information to our database.
Writing emails targetting site and blog owners inviting them to visit and review the company's websites.
Producing biweekly newsletters for the websites.
Writing different target group specific articles about the websites.
Managing and editting the work of one other writer.
Posting articles to Internet article directories.

 Here is a link to one of my articles
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-tips-articles/why-you-should-consider-a-homestay-holiday-if-youre-looking-for-a-successful-cultural-exchange-186665.html
08/2007 08/2007 The Perfect Pint Article Writer / Independent Contributor For this Odesk buyer I wrote an article about the History of Beer. I compiled this mainly through Internet research. 
Here is a link to the article.
http://www.theperfectpint.com/article.php?article=19
10/2005 04/2007 Hiranoya Business Research Remote writer/data entry clerk / Independent Contributor Hiranoya Business Research is an online English learning provider. My duties included writing TOEIC style questions for their website. Then selecting keywords and copy/paste the relevant words with usage sentences into an excel spreadsheet to form a dictionary of English keywords for Japanese learners.
04/2005 04/2006 Telelangue Remote EFL Teacher / Independent Contributor Telelangue is a French company that specialises in teaching English over the Internet. I had a bank of over 100 students and taught a combination of Business and conversational English.
08/2003 04/2005 Cleverlearn Inc. Manager of Educational Writers / Team Lead Cleverlearn is an online provider of English learning materials. In addition to managing a group of writers, I was also involved in the design and testing of new in-house software packages. Once fully tested I would then train my staff on the use of the systems. This software included an LMS system and a content management system to help track the progress of our content during creation.
02/1999 02/2003 Employment Agencies Data Entry/accounts clerk / Independent Contributor Working for a variety of employment agencies in the UK my duties included:-Entering names and addresses into promotional databases.Updating monthly financial records in excel.Extracting information from various sources and copy/paste into excel or in-house databases.
07/1993 01/1999 Lake District Hotels Assistant Manager / Independent Contributor During this time, I worked for 2 hotels in the English Lake District. In both of these I held the assistant manager position. 
I was rsponsible for handling bookings, accepting payments, doing weekly/monthly accounts including bank reconciliations, managing a small team of staff and helping out with general hotel duties as required.
07/1990 06/1993 Sage Plc Telephone Technical Support / Independent Contributor

Providing help and assistance to customers using Sage accounting and Payroll software. The position also included testing new software before release and writing end user documentation [fact sheets] and manuals.
Other Experience
Internet research
My hobby is researching genealogy over the Internet.
Education
From To School Degree Area of Study Description
02/2003 03/2003 Text and Talk Academy Diploma TEFL
06/1998 05/1999 Inverness College Diploma Financial Accounting
 
  • Project Title: Writer/Editor and link builder
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 04/01/2008
  • Category: Writing > Copywriting / Editing
  • URL: http://www.britishcastle.co.uk
  • Description: The original remit of this project was to produce articles about British Castles to include a description and historical timeline for each. I then progressed to editor of the site and became involved in link building in late August 2008.
 
  • Project Title: Writing blog entries
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 01/04/2008
  • Category: Writing > Blog / Article Writing
  • URL: http://dentalcareinfo.com/
  • Description: I wrote 2 blog entries for the Dental Care London blog entitled:-
    • Basic facts about Hungary
    • European Union Health Reforms
  • Project Title: Producing newsletters
  • Attachment: Newsletter no 2.doc - 39KB
  • Completed: 12/28/2007
  • Category: Writing > Other - Writing
  • URL: none
  • Description: Writing a bi-monthly newsletter for registered users of the Perfect Homestay site.
 
  • Project Title: Writing SEO web content
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/20/2007
  • Category: Writing > Website Content
  • URL: http://www.anz.com/uk
  • Description: Re-writing web content for ANZ UK's website. A lot of the content was already written but it needed to be rewritten in order to become keyword rich.
 
 
 
  • Project Title: Perfect Homestay web content
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 07/31/2007
  • Category: Writing > Website Content
  • URL: http://www.perfecthomestay.com
  • Description: Writing the web content for this new website. Some of the content just needed re-writing but some pages were created as new.
Hourly Assignment History
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
23968 07/2008 - Present Web Content Production $105 (11 hrs @ $10.00)
25283 10/2007 - Present Writing for Blogs $8,306 (580 hrs @ $15.00)
60835 11/2008 - Present Writer - additional work on xorstudio $50 (3 hrs @ $16.67)
11766 06/2007 - Present Article Writer $3,940 (350 hrs @ $11.11)
47050 06/2008 - Present Newsletter Copywriter $224 (12 hrs @ $19.44)
55451 10/2008 - 10/2008 Writers Needed $65 (5 hrs @ $13.89)
60835 10/2008 - 10/2008 Website copy writer $72 (2 hrs @ $16.67)
42274 04/2008 - 09/2008 British Castle Web Content Writer $444 (37 hrs @ $12.00)
39892 05/2008 - 06/2008 Blog content Writer $196 (18 hrs @ $11.00)
36330 04/2008 - 05/2008 web site copywriter $158 (9 hrs @ $16.67)
29791 03/2008 - 04/2008 SEO Content Writer $1,203 (67 hrs @ $18.00)
29791 03/2008 - 03/2008 SEO Content Writer $191 (10 hrs @ $19.44)
27177 11/2007 - 02/2008 Research-Writer $775 (52 hrs @ $15.00)
25524 11/2007 - 02/2008 Website and Blog Content Writer $2,088 (150 hrs @ $13.89)