Every Wednesday I share a link that I consider “Google Reader Worthy,” meaning that every single post, article, picture, fact, etc. is so great that it deserves to be in your Google Reader* so that you don’t miss a thing.

This week’s worthy Wednesday pick: Freelance Folder

Like Freelance Switch, my Worthy Wednesday pick from three weeks ago, Freelance Folder is an all purpose resource for freelancers. I find the two sites very similar, yet also very different. For one, Freelance Folder’s posts tend to be a tad shorter than Freelance Switch’s, making them often easier to digest when you are looking for a quick pick-me-up or are browsing blogs on your coffee break.

Freelance Folder also tends to do fun lists and open threads that give it a conversational, community feel. The fun posts can make reading Freelance Folder seem more like a reprieve than a reason to put on your thinking cap and take notes. For example, a recent open thread asked everyone to identify where they were located. It was a fun idea and I was amazed at the diversity of the blog’s readers. “If You Could Have a Freelancing Superpower, What Would You Choose?” encouraged a little midday creativity on my part. (You’ll have to visit the post to find out what I said.) Freelance Folder was also one of the inspirations for my shower-time epiphany, the SpecialtyBuzz segment.

But don’t take my word for it. This is Worthy Wednesday, after all, and I encourage you all to paste www.freelancefolder.com into your RSS feed reader of choice and give it a try for a few days. Here are some great past posts to whet your appetite:

35 Online Tools that Make Your Freelance Writing Career Easier, by Amir K.

Twitter for Freelancers: A Basic Overview, by Laura Spencer

The Ten Types of Freelancers: Which One Are You?, by Laura Spencer

*For the approximately 75% of you that do not embrace your Google Reader or other RSS feed reader, these things basically allow you to plug in a web address (not all addresses, but many) and then, while you are off writing, or working, or playing, they collect all the new posts that cropped up on that site while you were gone. This makes it a breeze to come back and read all your regular blogs, news outlets and even Craigslist categories without missing a thing.  One again, I will shamelessly suggest that you try it now by plugging the address http://blog.jennescalona.com into your Google reader or other RSS feed reader of choice.