Frontline Club: blogging and social media training

Cross-posted from my now rather inaccurately named Mediating Conflict blog, this is just a note to let you know that I’ll be running the Frontline Club’s blogging and social media training course on 1 and 2 February 2010. 

Hopefully it will be great fun and a really good way to get yourself started in online publishing if you haven’t already. (There’s funding available as well). 

It is a 2-day course (contrary to the current confusion on the Frontline Club website) which will run from 10 – 5pm each day at the Club near Paddington. 

Here’s a bit about what I’ll be teaching on the course: 

Synopsis 

Aimed at beginners, this intensive two day course will get you up to speed with the social media world. Using tools that are available for free on the web, you’ll learn how to set up a blog, and engage with social media to research, publish and distribute content. The course will also introduce you to several strategies for monitoring news and information on the web as you learn how to use RSS feeds and Twitter. By the end of the two days you’ll preside over the beginnings of a mini social media empire. 

Main aims

* Setting up and producing content for a blog.      

* Using microblogging for networking, promoting your content and as a personal newswire.

* Social bookmarking as a research tool.     

* Embedding photo and video on your blog.      

* Getting the most out of RSS.      

* Monitoring and verifying information on the web.   

Who’s it for?     

* Journalists who are interested in getting up to speed with the social media world.      

* Anybody who wants to learn how to publish online.     

* People who are interested in monitoring breaking news and information on the web.  

If you want any further information about what you’ll learn, then drop me a line at daniel.s.bennett-AT-kcl.ac.uk. I’m hoping to be flexible to what people on the course want to know so if you want to find about something that’s not there, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. 

The course costs £265. If you want to book a place or enquire about the Skillset funding available for the course then email: training-AT-frontlineclub.com.

Photo: Pretty sure that is one of Graham Holliday’s, my training predecessor, though I can’t seem to find it here.