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This video continues to look at creative writing. This short video provides 7 practical tips and ideas to start creative writing for beginners.

This continues to look at language, but from an angle which shows that historical wordsmiths, such as Shakespeare, are not that different to modern rappers. Akala demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and hip-hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and its power.

This video explores ways to create interesting and engaging content for social media. The video looks at strategies to hone your content creation abilities to use the most popular social networks to best advantage and create content that pops, encouraging likes, clickthrough and shares across all your channels.

Here is another video on why networking matters and how to do it better. Breaking the glass ceiling that separates us from our dream job sometimes seems unachievable. Paul explains the solution lies in the power of networking. Paul Taylor is Global Head of Sales Strategies and Initiatives for Global Transaction Services.

Many creatives have what are called a portfolio career. That means doing several part-time roles or jobs to make up your living. It requires its own skills set. Ever wanted to know what you can do to diversify your career? How can you create a varied portfolio career instead of just one career? The presenter works as a general practitioner while wearing multiple different hats the remainder of the time. To diversify means you can have multiple interests and also develop multiple streams of income too.

This video is about portfolio selection and development with a focus on design portfolios. What makes for a good design portfolio? How should you organise your portfolio? What projects should you show in a portfolio? How do you present and talk about your portfolio work? In this video, Matthew and Petrula break down the MUST haves in a portfolio. They talk about out the do's and don'ts in a portfolio and how little things like your contact form will affect whether they do or not.

Publishing is an area you wanted more knowledge about. This video explores how to publish a video game and whether to self-publish or go for a commercial publisher.

Film distributors play a big role in how films are released. In this Film Courage video interview, Filmmaker Mark Harris shares his thoughts on what no one will tell you about film distributors.

This is the 2nd of 3 videos looking at DJing basics with Alison Wonderland.