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2009 New media training opportunities

Holiday season is time for 2009 budgets … and time for you to persuade your boss to put away some money for training seminars. Even if this year’s budget is tight, I have listed a variety of training opportunities that has something for everyone. Remember, our jobs require continuous education to succeed so be persistent!

Cheapest options:
Lynda.com ($25/month … $250/year)
NewsU courses and webinars

Workshops:
SND:
Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling / Intermediate Flash; 2/6 – 2/7; Chapel Hill, NC
Video & Audio storytelling; 2/20 – 2/21; Tuscon, Ariz.
Story Forms Boot Camp; 3/20 – 3/21; State College, PA
Print to Web, Web to Print; 3/27 – 3/28; Nashville, TN
Innovation on a shoestring; 4/17; Orlando, FL
Story Forms Boot Camp; 4/24 – 4/25; Bellingham, WA
Design Sophistication; 5/16; Vermillion, SD
Multimedia Graphics; 6/12 – 6/14; St Petersburg, FL

Beyond Bootcamp:
1/3 – 1/6; 1/7 – 1/10 Miami ($750)
5/17-22 UNC

Multimedia Reporting and Convergence:
1/11- 1/16; 3/22- 3/27
Knight Digital Media Center – Berkeley, Cali

Northern Short Course
3/19 – 3/21
Mclean, VA

NPPA News Video Workshop
4/5 – 4/10
Norman, Oklahoma

NPPA: Convergence ’09
6/6 – 6/13
Las Vegas, NV

Poynter Seminars: Online & Multimedia
St. Petersburg, FL
Copy Editing in a Multimedia World, 8/31 – 9/4
Online Storytelling with Audio and Images, 9/14 – 9/18
Multimedia Reporting with Video, 9/22 – 9/26
Best Practices in Multimedia Journalism, 11/2 – 11/6
Essentials for the Versatile Visual Journalist, 11/30 – 12/4

MediaStorm workshops:
New York City, NY
Advanced Multimedia Reporting, 1/24 – 1/30
Advanced Multimedia Post-Production, ongoing

Other posts that might interest you:

• 15 multimedia training opportunities for 2010
• Maine Media Workshops offers slew of multimedia workshops for professionals and numerous summer jobs for students
• Ease into programming with Poynter’s August seminar “Programming for Journalists / Journalism for Programmers”

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