Figuring Out Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, and Whatever's Next

WHEN Monday, May 21, 6:30-9:30 pm
WHERE mediabistro.com, 494 Broadway (Spring & Broome), New York, NY 10012

DIRECTIONS subway directions, map

Course Details: There is much confusion about blogs, bloggers and blogging. Is this the end of journalism as we know it? Or is it just another small step in the evolution of media? Are any worth following? You will get answers to these and other questions at this workshop. You will go home with plenty of useful ideas from this fun, informative, fast-paced seminar.

In this seminar, you will learn about:

• Blog basics
• The best blogs for and by media professionals
• Blogs that are changing America and the world
• How to read blogs without drowning in too much info
• How to create a blog and raise your Google rankings
• Why journalists should and should not be blogging
• What to expect next: photoblogging, videoblogging, tagging, podcasting, wikis, RSS, XML

PRICE: $65

Instructor Bio

Figuring Out Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, and Whatever's Next – New York (Seminar on May 21)

Sree Sreenivasan is a leading technology expert and WNBC-TV's tech reporter. He is also Dean of Students at Columbia University's journalism school, where he runs the new media program. His tech reports can be seen on Thursday morning at 6:40 am on Channel 4. He previously spent six years as WABC's Tech Guru. His work explaining technology has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, and Popular Science (where he's a member of the "Geek Chorus"). In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the 20 most influential South Asians in the nation.

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