Photo by Marc Thiele

On the 19th of May, I gave a talk at Carsonified’s Future of Web Design London on Freelancing. I’ve just been sent the video of my talk if you missed it. – Video no longer available. :(

Although I was really nervous in the days leading up to the conference, I really enjoyed speaking. The audience was great, and made such lovely comments on Twitter. I really hope Carsonified ask me to speak again. (hint hint!)

I’ll be posting a write-up of the talk on either my blog or Scrunchup, so keep an eye on my RSS or Twitter feed.

The reason I did this talk is because I am concerned that young web designers and developers are jumping into freelancing without much thought, and then discovering how much of a minefield it can be. So I decided to cover things like how to set up, what sort of problems young freelancers come across, and what I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made. I hope you find it useful.

Big thanks to Perch and Littlesnapper who provided me with prizes to give out to people who stayed awake during the talk.

Here’s an unedited video of the first set of talks. Mine is 01:06:45 in. I’m hoping an edited version will be available soon.

Here are my slides. If you want to read the notes that go with the slides, click through to the slideshare site.

Here are two YouTube videos that were filmed by Meaghan of the talk.