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DigitalEd: How to Host Great Live Media Events

Sign up for DigitalEd's training on how to host great live media events.

Title: How to Host Great Live Media Events

Instructor: Mark Glaser, founder and publisher, MediaShift.org

Get face-to-face with your community and share knowledge with them

You’ve always thought about producing events, but maybe you’re afraid it takes too much work? That can be true, but hosting great events isn’t out of reach. MediaShift has been producing events since 2009, including everything from mixers and workshops to symposiums and weekend hackathons. We have a great track record for bringing together the right people and the right strategies to make meaningful events come to life.

Great events don’t happen by accident, of course. It takes a lot of hard work and time to find the right people, book a venue, get good speakers, and then promote, promote, promote! I’ll explain how MediaShift got started in events — with simple mixers — and how we use our entire team to help promote and run events. I’ll also address how media outlets can best make use of their platform before, during and after an event. (Note: We don’t run large conferences, and this training will not focus on those.)

What you’ll learn from this training:

  1. How to get started with events
  2. How to develop planning strategies and streamline the work
  3. How to promote your event via social media, email outreach and more
  4. Tips for running events on-site

Handouts:

  • Slides from online training

Who should take this training:

  • Publishers who are interested in running media events
  • Event planners who want to know more about media events
  • Anyone who wants to help produce successful events

Date and Time: August 24, 2016; 1 pm ET / 10 am PT

Price: $39

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.

Register now for the online training!

About the Instructor:

Mark Glaser is executive editor and publisher of MediaShift. He is an award-winning writer and accidental entrepreneur, who has taken MediaShift from a one-person blog to a growing media company with events such as Collab/Space workshops and weekend hackathons; a weekly podcast; and digital trainings, DigitalEd, in partnership with top journalism schools. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit and learn more about MediaShift Events here.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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