Best of AC-Text PMA Acceptance Speech, Michelle L Devon

Michy is Honored by Award

Wow! What a year we've had.

I've been with AC going on my second year, not quite having been with the site from the beginning, but close to it, and as such I've seen AC go through a lot of changes. The site has been redesigned, the forums overhauled, the submission process changed -- twice -- and new rules, regulations and policies show how Associated Content is a growing, living, thriving company that offers something to just about everyone -- readers, bloggers, writers alike.

I watched last year's PMA awards with curiosity when they showed who was in the running for the awards and updated them weekly. This year, shrouded behind the veil of the awards committee, the only clue we had to the winners was supposition and nominations in the forum.

There were several people in the forums who nominated me for an award, and for that, I am grateful. They say it's an honor just to be nominated, and I must admit that's true. I was humbled and honored by each person who threw my name in the hat.

Don't get me wrong though, being nominated was cool, but winning is pretty cool too!

As a freelance writer, I didn't know what to make of Associated Content when I first stumbled upon it. I subscribed to a writers group for posting freelance paying leads, and someone in the group posted a link to Associated Content. Much debate ensued about whether AC was a legitimate paying job for writers, and arguments sparked up about how much they paid and the future of the site.

The site was in its infancy at that time.

So I waited and watched the site change and grow, read the things people who wrote for the site were saying, and eventually, I signed up so I could give it a shot first hand. My first article with AC was a print magazine article reprint that the rights had reverted back to me, and I put it up just out of curiosity. Once I received that offer, I took some keyword articles I had written for a client who had not paid me and I posted them for payment consideration.