FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, authority

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FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, authority

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FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, authority

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Student Financial Aid News
+ Chronicle: Despite last month’s unprecedented action by Congress and the Bush administration to shore up the student-loan industry, some of those state-authorized organizations say they may not return to the loan business this year, and others are cutting some of the borrower benefits and services they provide.
+ Nine state loan agencies stopped issuing either new federally backed student loans or new private student loans this year, according to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Those agencies are in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania organization has also announced that it will reduce the grants it makes to about 160,000 low- and middle-income students by an average of $500.
+ In response to the recently crafted federal rescue plan, agencies in Kentucky, Missouri, and New Hampshire have announced that they will resume lending this year.
+ You can still shop around – and yes, the Student Loan Network is included

Scholarship Update
+ Each year we hold a competition for photographers who are either attending a full-time photography course or are under the age of 24. Entrants must submit a portfolio of their work and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won the scholarship. The prize is £2,500 towards their assignment. Metro Imaging also offer £500 worth of vouchers to the winner and £250 to those awarded highly commended and commended.
+ The scholarship will be a prize of £3000 towards the cost of an assignment for The Sunday Times Magazine and £500 for the runners up. The winning entry and selected finalist’s work will be exhibited at the Getty Gallery in Central London. The scholarship is open to anyone of any age attending a recognised photographic course and to any photographer up to the age of 24.
+ completed entry form
+ A portfolio of not more than 12 low resolution digital photographs (please follow our instructions carefully) either a photo-essay or individual photos, black and white and / or colour. Please include a caption for each image and your name and contact details in the file info.
+ A detailed proposal of your chosen assignment including speci?c information and articles relevant to it. It should be noted that the written section is considered extremely important. The judges will need to be impressed by your ability to produce a convincing assignment proposal as well as your skills as a photographer.
+ The deadline is 20th June 2008.
+ Detalls at our free college scholarship search site

Jobcast
+ Developing authority
+ One of the keys to becoming a valuable employee and a valuable job candidate
+ Prerequisite: you do have to be an expert in something
+ Authority is largely perception
+ Have a professional-focus web site with a blog
+ I recommend Wordpress with SEO plugins
+ Write an eBook like David Meerman Scott did on a topic in your vertical that you are an expert in
+ Blog frequently
+ Start a podcast or video podcast if you have the time and the focus to do so
+ Participate on lists like HelpAReporter.com
+ Cultivate local media contacts
+ Guest blog, guest interview, etc. on as many media outlets as you have time for
+ Don’t just aim for big ones – be sure you’re on the radar very locally
+ Local papers, for example, do syndicate a lot of their content
+ Consider speaking publicly – events like BarCamp or PodCamp, Toastmasters, etc.

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