Nancy Duin

Nancy Duin is a freelance copywriter, editor and trainer. She initially worked as a book editor on a wide range of subjects, but later expanded her repertoire to structuring, writing and editing websites for television companies, businesses and government agencies and departments. Her clients have included:

• Channel 4 Television – she was an editorial consultant for almost two decades, editing and writing both print publications and websites, and editor of the Channel 4 History website for seven years

• Department for International Development – she was closely involved in the latest redevelopment of the DFID website, transforming the antiquated 'Country profiles' to the current 'Where we work' section

• Napster – she carried out a qualitative content audit of this music-on-demand site and wrote copy to replace outdated/inadequate existing content.

More recently, she has worked part-time as deputy managing editor of the government-funded BeGrand.net – 'the website for grandparents' – and as content editor for Digital Unite, helping to create its 'Learning Zone' of easily digestible articles on all things digital.

In addition, in 2000 she co-created PTC's 'Web editing & writing' course – one of the first of its kind in the UK – and has helped tutor it ever since. She recently co-created another web editorial skills course for the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, of which she's internet director.

Born in the US, she has lived in London for many years.

For further information about Nancy Duin, see her LinkedIn profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/nancyduin