Time	February 18 · 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location	Emerson College room W210 120 Boylston St, Boston, Suffolk, MA 02108 Boston, MA

Created By	SreeTips

More Info	[ shortcut to this page: http://sree.ly/boston2 ] Already comfortable on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn? Already figured out Google Buzz? Then it's time to take it your social-media skills to the next level. This, special, advanced social-media class is designed to specifically help social-media pros make the most of social-media tools. You will be expected to know all the basics and be ready to dive into a session filled with pra...ctical, actionable tips and case studies. # How to deepen your connection with your audience(s) via social media # New tools you must absolutely know and use # How to build your personal brand # How to find, on deadline, specific types of people you need for work # The best ways to increase your followers, fans, and connections # How to get the "right" followers, fans, and connections # Metrics: why you need to understand them and how you can do just that # Sustainable social media -- how to keep from drowning in information and make time to participate efficiently SPEAKER: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Journalism School & contributing editor, DNAinfo.com - one of AdAge's 25 media people to follow on Twitter Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 6-7:30 pm Emerson College Room W210 120 Boylston Street (Walker Bldg), near Tremont Street on the southeast corner of Boston Common Directions: http://www.emerson.edu/about/getting_to_emerson.cfm Map: http://bit.ly/bGRx9S TO RSVP: Please fill in the form here: http://sree.ly/boston2rsvp (just RSVPing within FB is not enough!) NO CHARGE. BUT YOU MUST RSVP via http://sree.ly/boston2rsvp *** Many thanks to Prof. Paul Niwa of the Emerson College Department of Journalism for hosting us! CAN'T ATTEND? YOU CAN SEE SREE'S SOCMEDIA TIPS AT http://sree.ly/sreesoc AND LISTEN TO HIS RECENT FREE WEBCAST WITH ALL-STAR TWEETING JOURNALISTS: http://bit.ly/columbiajtw2 AND FOLLOW ALL HIS TECH TIPS AT http://twitter.com/sreenet BIO: SREE SREENIVASAN is a tech evangelist and skeptic (he can explain how he's both) specializing in explaining technology to non-techies. He is a professor and dean of students affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program (he has also been teaching entrepreneurship at the J-school and digital-media marketing for an MBA Master Class at Columbia Business School). He has been on the faculty for 17 years. He is a contributing editor at DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan-news startup he helped launch in 2009 with Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade and whose family just bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. He also has been a fixture on NYC-area television. For more than eight years, he served as technology reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV and now occasionally appears on various TV shows (on CNN, NBC's Today Show, CNBC and elsewhere) to talk tech. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Popular Science. He is co-founder and former president of the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of 1,000+ journalists across the U.S. and Canada. In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation's 20 most influential South Asians; and in 2009, he was named one of AdAge's 25 media people to follow on Twitter and was one of 22 professors named to the "Top 100 Twitterers in Academia" by OnlineSchools.org. The founding administrator of the Online Journalism Awards at Columbia, the world's largest new-media prizes (which are now based elsewhere), he has since been a judging leader for the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media for several years and is also a judge for the Shorty Awards, which honors the best people and organizations on Twitter. You can find him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sreenet and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/sreetips and on the Web at http://sree.net/ Prof. Sree Sreenivasan \| sree@sree.net Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net/ \| http://www.sreetips.com/ Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com/ FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet See More

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