All are invited to attend this free October 21st webinar
By Deb Shaw, for the SNA Foundation
debshawsna@comcast.net
Ken Doctor
Noted author and veteran of the digital news industry Ken Doctor will take center stage on October 21st in the next webinar presented by the SNA Foundation. He will present Leading a Newsroom in the Digital News Decade: Newsonomics 2011 and What They Mean to You, and all are invited to attend this free webinar beginning at 2PM Eastern.
Ken Doctor is the author of the book Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get and, among other appearances, recently spoke in St. Paul at The Future of News Summit on the topic of ‘Creating a New Model for Regional Journalism.’ In the SNAF October 21st webinar, Doctor will tailor his presentation to the suburban and community newspaper sector and will delve into how the local landscape in the age of hyper-competition has created a new set of strategies for editors and other newsroom leaders.
In this approximate one-hour SNAF webinar, he’ll discuss things like:
- Editors as Content Aggregators: How to Get Bigger while Getting Smaller
- Editors in the Social Conversation: Get Ready for Social Media Optimization
- Editors and Bloggers: Working the Top End of the Blogosphere
- Editors in the Age of Paid Content : What the Wall Street Journal and small newspapers have in common
- Editors in the All-Access Age: the implications of Print + Web + Smartphone + Tablet
This is a don’t-miss opportunity for publishers, editors, interactive managers, and anyone on your staff responsible for moving the newsroom forward in multimedia ways.
Webinar Registration Information
Click here (or visit
http://www.suburban-news.org/Webinars/UpcomingWebinars.aspx) to sign up for the free October 21st webinar. You will then receive an email from GoToWebinar with instructions to access the webinar. If you have not received an email confirmation within 24 hours of registration or if you have any questions regarding your registration, please contact SNA headquarters:
sna@suburban-news.org or 888-486-2466.
Related E-Learning Opportunities
The webinar is free thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It will expand on the lessons taught in a series of e-courses that the SNA Foundation developed in partnership with the NewsU division of the Poynter Institute. Take advantage of these
free, self-paced e-learning courses:
Innovation at Work: Making New Ideas Succeed
Learn how to tilt your natural tendencies into innovation territory and put the ingredients and processes of innovation to work for you and your company.
www.newsu.org/Innovation
Leading An Online Newsroom: What You Need To Know
Learn how to manage your newsroom for timely multimedia publishing.
www.newsu.org/LeadingOnlineNewsroom
Build & Engage Local Audiences Online
Get to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.
www.newsu.org/LocalOnlineAudiences
Layout Driven Editing
Learn how the publisher of two local Swedish newspapers streamlined the production process and increased local content by introducing an innovative process where stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
www.newsu.org/LayoutDrivenEditing
Coming Soon!
Managing Citizen Contributions and Contributing to Local Publications
These new, linked e-courses – the first for editors to learn how to better manage and cultivate user submissions to newspaper Web sites, and the second for community contributors to learn how to submit better content to local media – will help improve the quality of community online interaction and engagement.
About the SNA Foundation: The Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable trust, is affiliated with Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA), the largest suburban and community newspaper trade association in North America, representing over 2,000 newspapers with more than 22 million in circulation. The SNA Foundation provides timely research and training to help suburban and community newspapers make the transition to multimedia publishing in a digital age.