Authentic Social Media

We offer blogging and writing courses, consultancy and coaching services all around the world, specific to your personal, community or professional context.

Our courses are more than the basic package and introduce you to the widest potential of blogging and the internet.

They cover:

• How to set up and maintain a blog
• Intro to Web 2.0 and the new rules of marketing
• Understanding stakeholders s& building audience
• How to learn and collaborate through blogging
• The joys of self expression, reflection & connection
• Optimising your blog for search engines
• Intro to RSS, social media, twitter, etc
• Embedding images, videos & slideshows
• Whatever else you need your course or project to cover.

“The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.“
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web

The next series of confirmed courses are:

Freshen Up Your Writing - For bloggers and non-bloggers. Every second Tuesday (during school term) 10.30-12.30 at The Werks in Brighton. More here (including bookings).

Blogging for Change Agents

Social / eco enterprises, charities, third sector.

Let’s make the most of the wonderful opportunity blogging presents for small to medium size organisations (SMEs) to think big on low budgets.

Under development. Have your say! We are in a consultation phase with your sector to make sure it meets your needs. Find out how blogging can help you and your organisation make a big difference here. Then get in touch and let us know what else we should be thinking about.

Blogging for Coaches - under development.

Recently offered - next dates to be realised shortly. Get in touch if you want to sign on.

Blogging for Beginnners - A chance for new or newish bloggers to develop an effective and authentic blogging practice to help achieve personal and professional goals. Participants including leading international management consultants and coaches, writers, web developers and social activists. Note: Personalised learning programme for each participant. Let us know what your needs are.

Hear from the people who did it here…

More about what the course covered here..

Academics at University of Sussex University - Bespoke course for academic and support staff at Sussex. Explored the emerging trend for academic blogging, publishing work in progress, collaboration, challenges and opportunities, using a blog for research purposes, stakeholder mapping, developed a new blog and learning how to post to it. More…

“… participating in your Academic Blogging course is the most thought-provoking and stimulating process I’ve engaged in academically for a long time! It’s dawning on me how blogging could, if I choose, profoundly change the way I do my research work, connect with others in my field and beyond, and go about the whole business of creating ‘knowledge’.”
Dr Frances Aldrich

Under development. Contact us if you want to see these taken off the back burner in 2008.

• Blogging / Portfolio Creation & Marketing for Artists & Writers
  

• Young People’s Participation / Citizen Journalism - Towards building being seen and heard, towards self-expression, self-esteem, democractic, engagement and participation in their world and the larger world we all share.

• 6th Form College Students - Lunchtime enrichment course to support learning.

• Primary school classrooms or afterschool/holiday clubs - Group blogs with extra rich content (eg. images, scanned artwork, story-podcasts, video-podcasts.)