Philadelphia/NJ Area Social Media Bootcamp

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edSocialMedia Bootcamp

A Hands-on Social Media Workshop for School Administrators and Teachers.

Join us on October 15th, 2010 at Princeton Day School, Princeton NJ for a social media bootcamp experience.

Learn how social media can help you strengthen relationships with the constituents that matter most- your students, parents, faculty & alumni.

Who should attend: K-12 or higher-ed administrators and staff in Admissions, Marketing, Communications, External-affairs, Advancement, or Alumni/Development.

This full day workshop provides an in-depth, hands-on introduction to social media technology. Participants spend the day creating content in order to learn how to apply these tools to their own outreach.

Listen to recent Bootcamp participants talk about their experiences:

Cannon School Director of Admission Talks About the Value of the edSocialMedia Bootcamp

Texas Lutheran University Director of Admission, Dale Gaubatz, discusses his impressions and experience from the edSocialMedia San Antonio Bootcamp

Time/Location

Date: October 15th, 2010

Registration: 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM

Bootcamp: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – (Lunch is provided)

Princeton Day School
650 Great Road Princeton, NJ 08540

Workshop Format

The hour long introductory keynote focuses on foundational social media ideas and case studies leaving the rest of the day to put what you’ve learned into practice.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Working with your team:

generate a minimum of 8 tweets spread out over two hours posted to #edsocialmedia.
write two, well crafted articles for the blog (between 450 – 750 words)
create a photoset in Flickr of 10 photos
post a brief (around 2 minutes) video for YouTube

Take a look at the great content that folks from our previous Bootcamps produced in just four hours!

What to bring

You are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop with wireless network connectivity, and a digital camera or digital-camcorder if you have them.

Cost

Our sponsors underwriting a portion of the registration fee for this event, bringing it down from $349 to $249.

Registration : $249 ($215 per person for groups of 2 or more)

Contact Info

Please kindly direct all inquiries to info@edsocialmedia.com or call us at 617-855-5106.

Our Sponsors

This event is made possible in part by Princeton Day School, a boys and girls day program for Prekindergarten through 12th grade.

This event is also made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:

edSocialMedia Trainers

Jesse Bardo is the Director of edSocialMedia. He leads ESM’s expanded strategy and consulting services, working directly with schools on creating social media plans. Prior to ESM, Jesse served as an Admission Counselor & Communications Coordinator at Northfield Mount Hermon School where he worked with NMH’s communication team to weave facebook, blogging, twitter, Youtube & flickr into NMHBook- a cutting edge social media & communications aggregator site that greatly enhanced the school’s admission outreach and has contributed to record admission yields.

Steve Ritchie is the Chairman and co-founder of The Proof Group and edSocialMedia. Steve has spent more than eight years working and consulting with schools on administrative technology and prior to that was a teacher, coach and dorm parent at two New England independent schools. He brings an independent school alum perspective to social media strategy as a graduate of St. Paul’s School. Steve blogs at ProofGroup.com and edSocialMedia.com

Refund policy

ESM will be unable to issue refunds to registered participants who do not attend, however attendees who have to cancel due to illness or other unavoidable conflict may receive credit towards future edSocialMedia events.

Please direct all cancellation related inquiries to info@edsocialmedia.com.

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