May 19, 2012

Knowing your tweets from your facebook and your blog, 8-10 June Jhb

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Date and Cost

The workshops will be held at frayintermedia in Johannesburg on Tuesday to Thursday, June 8 – 10, 2010. The cost is R2,400 excluding VAT.

Space is limited due to the interactive nature of the training. Early bird and group discounts available.

Registration

To register please complete and return the reply form, together with payment confirmation to:
Samkele Nkabinde on 011 341 0767 or email snkabinde@frayintermedia.com.

Microsoft Word version for emailing

Adobe PDF version for faxing

After completing the workshop, you will have:
  • An overview of social marketing tools, their effectiveness and their uses
  • Guidelines on using facebook effectively including starting a fan page
  • Guidelines on using Twitter, growing your followers and effective tweeting techniques
  • Understanding how You Tube works, how it can be utilized to grow your profile
  • An understanding of new trends in internet usage
  • Tips on how to develop one’s profile across all popular social media and integrate information
  • Blogging guidelines
Directions

frayintermedia is in Suite 252 on the second floor of the Dunkeld West Centre, on the corner of Jan Smuts Avenue and Bompas Road. The Fournos bakery is in this centre. Click here for driving directions and a Google Map.


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Interactive social media marketing tools

frayintermedia presents a three-day modular course on interactive social marketing tools that provides an overview of the existing tools as well as the skills to use them effectively.
  • Do you know your tweets from your twits?
  • Your myspace from your facebook?
  • Can Youtube be an effective marketing tool or is it a teenager’s space?
  • Are you able to blog effectively?

Do you feel comfortable exploring new media initiatives in your business? As a communicator, do you feel confident advising on various social media tools?

frayintermedia is offering an introductory workshop on new media tools targeted at all communicators – journalists, public relations executives, marketers – exploring new platforms to get their message across.

The workshop includes:

Introduction to interactive social media tools including:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • You Tube
  • My Space
  • Googlewave
Using media tools effectively including:
  • Using Twitter for networking and intelligence gathering (finding sources for journalists)
  • Profiling initiatives on facebook
  • Ethical considerations
  • Building relationships and starting conversations with your audience
Effective blogging with a focus on:
  • Understanding how readers interact with blogging
  • Guidelines for effective blogging
  • Understanding and growing your audience
  • Linking your blog to social media networks
  • Writing skills
  • Effective blog structures
  • Good writing tips
  • Self-editing Skills
  • Multimedia tools to consider (eg. Videoblogging)

The facilitators:

Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet is a freelance journalist who predicts that 2010 will see an increased number of twitter users rating the service as their preferred primary news source. She has been blogging in her personal capacity for just over four years, garnering a nomination for Best Writing on a South African Blog in the 2007 SA Blog Awards and even marrying an interested reader.
In her time at frayintermedia she project-managed the company’s move to implement a blog-based format for their website. Saaleha tweets, facebooks and flickrs towards building her online profile, expanding her network and securing her freelance work.

Paula Fray is a journalist, trainer and writing coach who moved from print to online journalism with her appointment as regional director of a global development online news agency. As such, she has seen first-hand how multimedia skills have to potential to tell powerful stories that engage readers. And, she knows that impactful storytelling starts with the message and an understanding of how to use the medium effectively.


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