San Marcos and El Paso Multimedia Conferences Saturday, Houston Region Conference March 20

Region 5 Members,




Don't forget our multimedia conferences on Saturday in San Marcos at Texas State and at the University of Texas at El Paso. These are great opportunities to get hands-on training at a great price. This stuff usually cost close to a $1,000 and you're getting it for $40 for NAHJ professional members and $20 flor NAHJ Student members.



Take advantage of the training. Our numbers are low at UTEP. If we don't get more people, we will have to reschedule. So please if interested, sign up. For the UTEP Conference, click this link http://www.nahj.org/2010/01/multimedia-and-social-media-day-on-the-border-for-journalists/ For the San Marcos Conference click this link http://www.nahj.org/2010/01/multimedia-and-social-media-day-for-journalists/ I'll be in San Marcos so see you there.



Don't forget the Region 5 Conference in Houston at Rice University on March 19-20. I have attached the schedule of events with speakers and topics. We will have a Townhall Friday, March 19, followed by an all-day conference Saturday, March 20. The price will be $20 for NAHJ students, $35 for non-NAHJ students, $40 for NAHJ Professionals and $60 for non-NAHJ Professionals. I hope you can start signing up for that next week on the NAHJ website at http://www.nahj.org/

Houston Regional Conference


March 20 @ Rice University

Friday Schedule

Registration Herring Hall 6:30- 8 pm

Townhall Meeting 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

"Census 2010"

Moderator: Vicente Arenas/KHOU-TV

Panelists:

Dianne Solis, Dallas Morning News Reporter

Steve Murdock, Rice University sociologist

Sylvia Garcia, Harris County Judge

Eduardo Guity, U.S. Census

Reception 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm





Saturday Schedule

8:30 a.m. Registration - Rice Student Center


9:00 a.m. Plenary: Census 2010 - Rice Student Center

"The Future of Journalism"

Moderator:

Panelists: Rick McFarland/KPRC News Director

David Ellison







Morning Seminars
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.

Workshop I - Border Reporting: Human/Drug Trafficking

Moderator; Manuel De La Rosa/KIII-TV

Panelists: Jenalia Moreno/Houston Chronicle
Alfredo Corchado/Dallas Morning News
Angela Kocherga/Belo

Workshop II - Getting Your Foot in the Door-Staying in the Business

Moderator: Sandra Gonzalez/Freelance Journalist

Panelists:

Mayra Moreno (Invited) Multimedia Journalist

Erica Rodriguez, Victoria Advocate


Digital Training Workshops 10:45 am - Noon

Basics of Social Media Networking Sites

This is a beginner course on how to use social media networking sites. How do you set up a Facebook/Twitter/Link In etc and how do you navigate around these sites? More importantly, how do you get people to follow you and what type of info should you be posting as journalists?

Blogging and Using Wordpress/Blogger

This is also a beginners course on how to use Blogger and Wordpress and what is the difference between the two? We’ll show you how to set up an account and the different tools available. What can you write about it and how to get people to follow you? How do you get sponsors to pay for your blog?



Noon Luncheon - Keynote Speaker ?



Digital Training Workshops 1:45 - 4:30 pm



Backpack Reporting

Backpack Blogging/Reporting is demo/class of sorts. It will teach/show how to use digital tools out on the field to cover LIVE and breaking news, etc and put it on your own Blog

Making the Transition from Print to a Digital Lab

Plan 21 and Preparing for the 21st century of digital newsrooms. It’s a session on how a newspaper/publication makes the transition from traditional print media to online, social media and digital storytelling on line. That includes radio news and video updates on the newspaper website.

Afternoon Seminars
1:45 pm - 3 pm

Workshop 1 - Reporting on Disasters

Panelists Ernesto Torres/Photographer KHOU-TV

Ted Oberg/Reporter/KTRK-TV

Workshop 2 - Marketing Your Blog and Getting Followers

Victor Escalante

April Brandon/Victoria Advocate Pop Culture Writer

3:15 pm - 4:30 pm

Workshop 1 - Moving on After Journalism

Moderator: Minerva Perez

Panelists: Joann Zuniga JAZuniga@shrinersnet.org

Claudia Deschamps

Workshop 2 - Managing a Newsroom and Staying There.
Moderator: Liz Zavala/Fort Worth Star Telegram

Panelists: Dino Chiechi/San Antonio Express News
Alfredo Carbajal/Al Dia

Jerry Vasquez/Executive Producer KTRK-TV

4:30 pm - 5:30 Closing Reception


These are all mini conferences and just a taste of what you'll get if you go to the 28th Annual NAHJ Multimedia and Expo Convention in Denver from June 23-26. The big difference from these regional and multimedia conferences is you get it close to home and it's a lot cheaper. Hope to see you at one of these events.