SND has a great day of digital media training planned for Saturday, Oct. 10, at Michigan State University. You’ll learn about the best ideas for Web site design, free online tools, the Detroit Free Press’ new e-reader platform and hands-on techniques for using social media, mobile and other internet tools to bring your online content to life. All this for a low price of $50 for everyone — professionals, students and faculty.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS: TELL US WHAT YOU’RE UP TO!
We’ve lined up four terrific speakers for you at our Quick Course at Michigan State University, but we’d like to hear from YOU too. If you’re doing something innovative and cool that you believe might be something everyone could benefit from, let us know and you may be chosen to give a 15 minute talk about it at the MSU Quick Course. Please send Karl Gude at gudek@msu.edu a short description of what you’re up to and the Quick Course committee will choose six to eight of you to give a talk.
DIGITAL MEDIA QUICK COURSE
When: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 10, 2009
Where: Michigan State University, School of Journalism, 305 Comm. Arts Bldg., East Lansing, Mich.
Site chair: Karl Gude, gudek@msu.edu
Registration fees: $50 for everyone
PROGRAM DETAILS
WHERE THE SITES ARE
Tips for good and flexible news Web sites: Nancy Hanus, a 25-year veteran of the news industry, walks you through the brainstorming and redesign of a Web site, based on her experiences at The Detroit News’ detnews.com. Hanus led a 2008 effort at detnews.com that earned an EPpy Award for best designed news Web site with more than 1 million unique visitors per month.
WHERE THE TOOLS ARE
Michigan State student John Allison presents overviews of four free, downloadable drawing and photo manipulation softwares that mimic the big guys:
Google SketchUp: A quick and easy introduction to 3D, SketchUp can be used for time-sensitive projects. It can be paired with a growing number of 3rd Party rendering programs to create high-quality graphics.
Blender: This program rivals Maya and Lightwave with its full publishing interface. Advanced animation, modeling and texturing techniques supported by the Python scripting language allow for complex visualizations and superb detail.
GIMP: The GNU Imaging Manipulation Program is the free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, great for photo-manipulation, image composition and image authoring.
Inkscape: This vector-based application takes the place of Adobe Illustrator. It features a similar toolset, complex path operations and the ever-important pen tool.
WHERE THE READERS ARE
Steve Dorsey of the Detroit Free Press introduces you to the Free Press’ e-reader platform for Platic Logic set to debut publicly in Jan. 2010.
WHERE THE CONNECTIONS ARE
Your content has hit the web. Now what? Bring all your social media, mobile and internet questions. Learn the steps Shawn Smith took to establish MLive.com as one of the leading news organizations in Michigan when it comes to internet presence - and get hands-on techniques for replicating those tricks with your organization. Time is short for this session, so have your questions ready. We’ll give you as much actionable items as you can take down in 60 minutes.
THE SPEAKERS
NANCY HANUS
Nancy is a 25-year veteran of the news industry, having spent most of those years with The Detroit News as an editor in various departments. She left The News in August 2008 to teach journalism at Michigan State University, where she is a visiting new media editor in residence. This fall, Hanus is launching a “virtual newsroom” course that is expected to eventually be the capstone course to a revised journalism curriculum emphasizing multimedia, multiplatform journalism for the new era.
JOHN ALLISON
John is a journalism senior at Michigan State University, and studies visual multimedia under Newsweek’s former graphics editor Karl Gude. Specializing in 3D publishing and animation, he gave a seminar at SND Vegas last year on SketchUp, a free 3D program created by Google. He has created animations for the MSU Cyclotron and is currently animating and producing a documentary on the City Center II project, a massive urban development in downtown East Lansing. John has trained himself on many of the free creative applications available.
STEVE DORSEY
Steve is the deputy managing editor/presentation + innovation at the Detroit Free Press, the secretary/treasurer of the Society for News Design, and a design consultant. He’s been involved in user-centered information design research for many years, as well as the www.revenuetwopointzero.com efforts more recently. He’s been a speaker at conferences and workshops internationally, a visiting professor at Syracuse University, a recurring visiting faculty member at The Poynter Institute, and a frequent speaker and coach at numerous newsrooms.
SHAWN SMITH
Shawn runs the internet marketing group OptimalWebworks.com - but he’ll always be a journalist at heart. Training for a career in journalism, Shawn found his niche in traffic generation and social media while working with MLive.com. As senior producer for the site, Shawn helped build its internet presence through social media, SEO, newsletters and more.
Great Quick Course line-up and at a cheap price too. Thank you Denise.
Thanks, Gayle. But the credit goes to Karl Gude and his Michigan State colleagues Darcy Greene and Cheryl Pell. MSU always puts on a great Quick Course, and this promises to have some great topics.
And, folks, don’t forget to contact Karl if you want to give a short talk about an innovation at your company or institution for the lightning round of presentions.
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