Sree Sreenivasan * @sree * sree@sree.net

Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) * Columbia Journalism School professor and Dean of Student Affairs. Technology evangelist/skeptic.
Bio and more at Sree.net

NEW SOCIAL MEDIA BLOG at CNET NEWS: http://cnet.co/sreetips
Twitter: @sree; Twitter.com/sree
Facebook: Facebook.com/sreetips & FB.com/sreenet

My Social Media Guide: bit.ly/sreesoc
My Twitter Guide for Skeptics & Newbies: bit.ly/twitterideas
You can ask me questions on VYou.com
My workshops around the country bit.ly/sreeworkshops

Recent Tweets @sree
Posts I Like
Who I Follow
Posts tagged "tutorials"
My Blog CAT Scans with bloggers

Friday, Oct. 23, 2009: My most recent Blog CAT Scan [public critiques and tip-sharing about media blogs]:

Travelogged.com & Liz Borod Wright (@travelogged on Twitter)
TheSmallStory.com & Cara Solomon (@csmallstory on Twitter)

Hit play above or go to this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2009/10/23/BLOG-CAT-SCAN-Critiquing-Three-Blogs

DOWNLOAD TO iTUNES: These audio webcasts are also available as downloadable MP3 files for your personal collection and on-the-go listening. If you want to subscribe to these as podcasts on iTunes, go to “Advanced” within iTunes, then select “Subscribe to podcast” and type in http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/feed and hit OK.

==> Once in a while, I like to do what I call Blog CAT Scans, live webcasts during which I critique a blog or two and interview the blogger(s). The audience - and the bloggers - will learn how to improve the blog; raise visibility, traffic and revenue. We also share ideas about what’s working and what’s not.

I call these “CAT Scans” (borrowing a phrase from Prof. Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes) because, in the medical world, CAT scans look at healthy as well as unhealthy tissue. During these fast-paced, fun sessions, the bloggers receive plenty of constructive, actionable tips.

If any of you would like to volunteer your blog for a future session, write to sree[at]sree.net explaining why a large audience would benefit from your blog being critiqued. We do these with the bloggers on the telephone - and the audience can listen via the web or by calling into a NYC phone number. There’s a backlog of volunteers, so please be patient.

Listen to some recent Blog CAT Scans:

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TWITTER: @Sreenet’s Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics

Twitter Ideas: A work in progress by @sreenet
[shortcut for this page at http://bit.ly/twitterideas ]

Suggestions welcome: sree[at]sree.net

WORKSHOP: FOUR THURSDAYS IN OCTOBER (+1 optional session!), Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28; 6:30 - 9 p.m, Columbia J-school: Social Media for Journalists, Bloggers & Media Professionals - register here

MY FEED: @sreenet - http://www.twitter.com/sreenet 
MY SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIDE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc - tips, handouts, tools and more
MY WORKSHOPS: http://bit.ly/workshops - events around the country
MY SOCIAL MEDIA SYLLABUS: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills - a five-week course at Columbia Journalism School

This is meant to be a way to introduce Twitter to skeptics and newbies and is NOT comprehensive.

==>A big welcome to the TechCrunch readers who are here thanks to the mention in  @vwadhwa’s piece on why Twitter is his only social-networking tool.

[Many thanks to @NatIves for putting me on Ad Age’s 25 media people to follow. Also, thank you to OnlineSchools for putting me on Top 100 Twitterers in Academia. Armed with these, I can… well, what, exactly?]

*** MY TWO WEBCASTS WITH ALL-STAR TWEETING JOURNOS:
http://bit.ly/columbiajtw2

Intros to Twitter:

Breaking News

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WORKSHOP: Social Media Session in LA on July 16

Please write to sree[at]sree.net - subject = “Add to mailing list for X” (X = your city’s name) for future workshops. Meanwhile, keep track of my workshop schedule at http://bit.ly/workshops or via Twitter at http://twitter.com/sreenet.

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SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS & TRICKS: Better Use of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

A fun, useful workshop by Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism Professor and co-founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, and one of AdAge’s “25 media people to follow on Twitter” | @sreenet | http://twitter.com/sreenet | http://www.sree.net

Many of us are on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn - or all three - but are not
sure how to make best use of these and other social networking sites. This
fun, fast-paced, customized session will make you more efficient, help you
with your work and improve your online life. You will leave with a handout,
several practical, actionable ideas and a whole new outlook on technology.

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 9-11 am
Los Angeles Times HQ
Community Room, First Floor
202 W 1st St, Los Angeles, CA‎ (near City Hall, Disney Concert Hall and next to Civic Center Station on the Metro Red Line)

Questions to sree@sree.net


NO CHARGE, THANKS TO THE LA TIMES. TO RSVP, fill in the simple form at THIS LINK

LIMITED SEATING. YOUR PLACE WILL NOT BE HELD UNLESS YOU FILL IN THE FORM
ABOVE. ONLY SIGN UP IF YOU CAN BE ON TIME.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: SREE SREENIVASAN is a technology expert and dean of
students affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism,
where he teaches in the digital journalism program.

He specializes in explaining technology to consumers/readers/viewers/users.
For more than eight years, he served as technology reporter for WABC-TV and
WNBC-TV in NYC and occasionally on various ABC, NBC and MSNBC news programs.
He now appears as a guest commentator on other channels, talking about
technology and media. He has written articles for The New York Times,
BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Popular
Science and Sesame Street Parents magazine.

He is co-founder and former president of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists
Association, a group of 1,000+ journalists across the US and Canada.

In March 2004 Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation’s 20 most
influential South Asians. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Roopa (a
business strategist, Rhodes Scholar and former world-class sports-rifle
shooter) and their young twins.

Sree takes great interest in social media and was named by AdAge to its list
of 25 top media folks to follow on Twitter.

His Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/sreenet
His Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics: http://bit.ly/twitterideas

More on his work at htpp://www.sree.net and http://www.sreetips.com

[keep track of Sree’s tech workshops in NYC and elsewhere at
http://bit.ly/workshops or via Twitter at http://twitter.com/sreenet ]

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