We’ve been hard at work making improvements to our blog both in the features and content department, but for some reason, we here at Elance have a feeling in our gut that we’re still missing something.

You!

Starting now and happening once a month, we’ll be publishing a blog article written by you, the true experts of getting online work done. Not only do you get a little time in the limelight (and some promotion in the monthly Elancer and links back to your profile page), but we’ll also be paying you for your hard work by giving you $200 per article in cold hard cash.

Now before you fire up your trusty word processor and start crafting words together, there are a few things you should know before you get started.

1. Once a month, we’ll be posting a job on Elance with a selected topic of the month. We’ll also be publishing the job listing on our blog, so if you view the blog regularly, you’ll be able to quickly and easily find the latest job posting.
2. The job post will be open for one week. If you’re feeling like your writing chops are up to par, submit a proposal with your story idea and a rough outline.
3. Once a proposal is selected, no more entries will be accepted for the month. Deadline to finish and submit the article is within one week of award date.
4. Stories need to be roughly 600-800 words and submitted with a short, two or three sentence biography and photograph of yourself.
5. Payment of $200 will be made once the work is completed through the Elance Work System.

This month, we’ll be covering the topic of Language Translation. Think tips, tutorials, how-tos, or anything else that is related to Language Translation at all.

And here's the link: http://www.elance.com/job?jobid=17699467

Go for it, elancers, and show us what you've got!