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DigitalEd: How to Live-Tweet Events

Sign up for DigitalEd's "How to Live-Tweet Events" training with Ian Lamont on July 27, 2016.

Title: How to Live-Tweet Events

Instructor: Ian Lamont, Founder, i30 Media

Practical approaches to using Twitter to cover live events and breaking news

When news is breaking or an important event is unfolding, people turn to Twitter for authoritative, trusted voices and real-time information and insights. In this session, content creators of all stripes will learn how to use Twitter to provide effective live coverage of news, sports, conferences, and other events.

For journalists, Twitter offers an opportunity to highlight information and points of view that might otherwise be excluded from regular news coverage. Twitter can also help users raise the profile of their live events, engage with their audiences, and/or strengthen their brand.

The presentation will feature numerous examples and explore tools and time-saving techniques that help users maximize output and audience engagement.

What you’ll learn from this training:

  1. Types of events suitable for live-tweeting
  2. Preparing for an event
  3. Collaborative live coverage and tips & tricks
  4. Marketing via Twitter, newsletters, websites, hashtags, etc.

Handouts:

  • Presentation deck

Who should take this training:

  • Reporters interested in leveraging Twitter to cover live events
  • Editors seeking a way to augment their regular coverage with live-tweeting
  • Anyone who wants to leverage live events to engage with audiences, participants, and observers

 

Date and Time: July 27, 2016 at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT

Price: $39

Register now for the online training!

Note: If you can’t attend the live session, you can still register and see the archived video and ask questions of the instructor. Free registration for BigMarker is required.

About the Instructor:

Ian Lamont is an award-winning business and technology journalist and the founder of i30 Media Corporation. He has written for more than a dozen online and print publications and has also served as the managing editor of The Industry Standard. His writing and editorial work has garnered industry awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Lamont is the author of several In 30 Minutes guides, including Twitter In 30 Minutes, Google Drive & Docs In 30 Minutes, and Excel Basics In 30 Minutes.

Ian Lamont :Ian Lamont's media career started more than 20 years ago and spans three continents. It includes a stint in the British music business and a six-year residence in Taipei, where he learned Mandarin, worked for a local TV network and newspaper, and started a hard-rock band. He was the senior editor, new media for IDG's Computerworld and served as the managing editor of The Industry Standard. After graduating from the Sloan Fellows program at MIT, Lamont founded two start-up ventures, including a mobile software company and i30 Media, which publishes In 30 Minutes® guides. In his free time, he loves spending time with his family, geeking out on genealogy, and improving his Chinese cooking skills (he cooks a mean 三杯雞!). Follow him on Twitter at @ilamont or email him at ian@in30minutes.com.

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