This one day training course aims to bring you up to speed on all social media related subjects. The day will be divided into five 1 hour learning tutorials where you will have the chance to select your own training plan.  We will be running basic, intermediate and advanced sessions in a multitude of disciplines including:

• blogging
• podcasting
• social networking
• creating a social media strategy
• managing the messages
• video creation and editing
• social media campaigning
• collaborative authoring
• tweeting

Trainers include:

Rob Dyson, PR Manager – Whizz Kids

Jacqui O’Beirne, Digital Marketing Manager - Dogs Trust

Kat Arney, Science Communicator and presenter/producer of the Cancer Research UK podcast

Simon Berry, the founder of ColaLife, a campaign that’s trying to get Coca-Cola to use its distribution channels to help save lives in developing countries.

The event is taking place at Happy Computers in Aldgate, London.

Prices start at £195 for charities/third sector organisations with a turnover of under £1 million.

Places are strictly limited – to make a booking please email your details to:

socialmediaexchange@sounddelivery.org.uk

sounddelivery’s one-day Video for the Web workshop will introduce you to the potential of video as a storytelling medium and give you practical experience of how to create a video podcast or vodcast – from that lightbulb moment to the final production.

This course has been designed to be as practical and hands-on as possible to help you understand how video can help your organisation. You’ll get to grips with the technical equipment of filming, understand the importance of a good script and get hands on video editing experience.

All sounddelivery courses are run in small groups and are extremely interactive and practical. By the end of the course you will have created your own short film and started moving ahead with plans for your own organisation.

Course outline

Overview

How video can be used to tell stories and how video is used online, including video blogging.

How the storyboarding process works and how to plan a shoot, including locations.

Filming and interviewing

Get to grips with the technical equipment (camera, microphone, positioning and lighting). You’ll film one another in a role playing exercise to learn how to put an interviewee at ease.

Editing

Learn all about the editing process. You’ll use Premiere Elements to edit and add music and titles to the role playing videos you recorded.

Publishing

Uploading to the web and publishing your content across multiple applicatons

All sounddelivery courses are run in small groups and are extremely practical.

Course fee from £250.

For more information contact Jude Habib at jude@sounddelivery.org.uk

The BBC, the Guardian, Christian Aid and Medecins Sans Frontieres are just some of the organisations who truly understand the power and cost effectiveness of digital storytelling through audio slideshows.  In this one day workshop, sounddelivery will show you how to combine images with sound to tell compelling stories.

You will be taught the skills you need to collect stories, case studies and other relevant audio material, which you can combine with still images to create engaging digital stories to promote the work of your organisation.  You will gain practical experience of audio editing, working with photographs and sharing your slideshows online.

By the end of the workshop, you will have the knowledge and confidence to create your own audio slideshow. You will also have a clear ideas as to how it can be used as a communiations and/or fundraising tool.

“Thanks again for leading the digital storytelling session in such an able and engaging way. I am sure that all the participants have gone away better equipped to engage our target audiences in new and creative ways.” Alex von der Becke, The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Recognising the difference between audio slideshows and standard videos.
• Understanding the different types of audio slideshows available and exploring which ones are best suited to your organisation.
• Complete confidence in the use of recording equipment.
• Development of your interviewing techniques – how to make your interviewee comfortable, getting the best content from your interview etc
• Editing your material using low-cost editing software and preparing your slideshow to share online.

Who Should Attend?

• Communications and Campaign staff
• Marketing staff
• Frontline workers
• Fundraisers
• Chief executives
• Service Users/Supporters

All our courses can be adapted and tailored to your needs and delivered in-house.   We have delivered bespoke Digital Storytelling courses for organisations including Renaissance East Midlands and MLA London.

Please note that this workshop required a reasonable level of IT literacy.   Workshop handouts will be provided.

Course fee from £195.

For more information contact Jude Habib at jude@sounddelivery.org.uk