Intro to Social Media
March 5
2-3 p.m. EST, 1-2 p.m. CST
Nathan Wright, Lava Row Consulting
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Intro to Social Media will focus on learning about the different types of social networkingand how to use them. Find the answers to the question of how can newspapers best optimize their web presence to make it more “social” (community features, using Twitter and Facebook, etc.) How also can newspapers become more “findable” on the web? Google News, an aggregation of various news sites, has recently surpassed CNN. What does this mean for the future of news sources?

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Nathan Wright has over 10 years of expertise in social media, web culture, emerging media, user interface design, branding and digital communications. He founded Lava Row in 2007 after serving as the Interactive Lead at The Meyocks Group, an integrated branding firm. Wright can often be found organizing/attending TweetUps and Social
Media Breakfasts. Wright also writes about web strategy for The Des Moines Business Record’s IowaBiz. com.

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