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edSocialMedia Bootcamp

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

Join us on February 10th, 2011 at The Webb Schools, Claremont, California 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:

Tech Director at The Dwight School on hosting an edSocialMedia Bootcamp from edSocialMedia on Vimeo.

The Pingree School MA from edSocialMedia on Vimeo.

Time/Location

Date: February 10th, 2011

Registration: 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM

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

The Webb Schools
1175 W. Baseline Road, Claremont, CA 91711

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

A portion of your registration fee is underwritten by the generous support of our sponsors, bringing it down from $349 to $249 and $215 for groups of 2 or more.

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 The Webb Schools, a co-educational boarding high school. “The Schools are dedicated to the development of young men and women of character who think unboundedly and who are committed to the highest standards of honor. ”

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.

Peter Baron is the founder and president of AdmissionsQuest, an online resource for families who are working through the independent school admission process. Peter attended Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH. He earned his BA from Skidmore College and MAT from Tufts University. Peter’s teaching experiences include Historic Neighborhoods, Pine Ridge School and Wolfeboro, The Summer Boarding School. Peter blogs at AQ’s Boarding School Blog and edSocialMedia.com, and hosts the regular podcast series, Boarding School Podcast.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

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

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

Photo Courtesy of te55 Flickr via Flickr