Sunday, 15 May 2011

The Art of Blogging and Social Media Workshop

For booking please contact: Peter Davison cibas@port.ac.uk
 
Thursday 23rd June 6.30pm to 9pm at Portsmouth Uni.

Have you ever wanted to know how to write a blog or how to use one to enhance your online profile? Would you like to use a blog as a platform for presenting new work or for marketing and promoting yourself?

Alison Baverstock (www.alisonbaverstock.com) is the author of Marketing Your Book: an Author’s Guide. She is the resident blogger for the Artists’ and Writers’ Yearbook and leads the MA in Publishing course at Kingston University. Yemisi Blake (www.yemisiblake.co.uk) is a photographer, blogger, Creative Mentor at the Southbank Centre and Associate Artist with All Change.

This event is designed to offer advice and support to any professional (or aspiring professional) creative people with an interest in writing, publishing and creating dynamic and engaging online content that will drive traffic to your site and new audiences to your work.

“Both spoke with honesty, and gave both sides of the topic, meaning that we can make an informed and realistic choice.” - Previous Art of Blogging attendee

The highly subsidised fee for this special event is just £15 per person. Advance booking is essential as numbers are strictly limited. Tickets can be booked and paid for via the University of Portsmouth Online Store at http://onlinestore.port.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=30&modid=2&compid=1

The event will take place in a modern, fully equipped and accessible lecture theatre at the University of Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media on Winston Churchill Avenue in Portsmouth.

For directions, see www.port.ac.uk/aboutus/contact/maps/universityquarter/
For further information email cibas@port.ac.uk or call 023 9284 6232

This event is part of the Future Skills Festival which takes place in Portsmouth through June and July 2011. The Festival is presented by Cibas, the creative industries business and skills development agency based at the University of Portsmouth.

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