This training with Alun Hill will “take you by the hand” and show you, in simple, straightforward terms just how to interrogate the internet and quickly find the information you want.

This updated course is specifically designed for journalists, young and old, internet experienced or not and will be delivered in a relaxed environment at a simple pace.

Here’s what you will learn:

• How to really interrogate the Internet – including simple and advanced use of Google.
• When NOT to use Google. And what to use instead!
• Using search engines and search tools effectively.
• Precision searching using advanced (but simple to use) techniques.
• Do you need to search for trends, for Patents, businesses? No problem!
• How to access the “invisible web”. When your research fails, try this!
• People search – do you need to find information on a particular person?
• Searching on maps – looking at the streets and buildings from online photographs.
• Find historical copies of websites – do you want to see what a site used to say? Perhaps they copied some of your work and you want evidence? Perhaps they’ve changed what they said!
• Anonymous searching of the internet – very useful these days!…and much more.

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Learn the latest ways to to make money from what you do best  - writing!

In this fact packed 3 hour session, Alun Hill will take you through a myriad of paying writing opportunities.

Despite what the doom-mongers tell you, the spread of the Internet and e-commerce has created a demand bigger than ever before for professional writers –  and there is good money to be made. They will tell you that all writing is for free these days, that no-one pays, that it’s all kids trying to “get on the ladder”. Yes, there are such publications, but they’re not for us!

We’re talking about Forbes, we’re talking about the amazing opportunities offered by the Kindle ebook reader, we’re talking about the demand from Amazon to have your own books printed and published by them worldwide(and you get 70% of the price you set), we’re talking about the banks and other big companies who are looking for professional writers.

Again, we’re not talking about “blogging for free”, no Huffington Post nonsense here!

…although, actually, Alun will explain why you should give up an hour or two a week and write for both Yahoo and the New York Times online for free – but he’ll show you to turn that into good money, too!

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Booking your place on this course could not be easier.

First, decide whether you want to attend one or both courses on 1 November 2011.

Then simply call Institute head office on 020 7252 1187, quote the course and give your name, address and payment details if you are paying by credit/debit card.  The costs for one course is £30, or £50 to attend both courses.

Payment methods:

• Credit/Debit card: payment may be made over the phone by Visa, MasterCard or Visa debit card when you book;
• Cheque: you may send payment by cheque in the post to: CIoJ, 2 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road, LONDON SE16 2XU.

Please Note: Cheques should be made payable to the ‘CIoJ’ and should be received within five days of your booking.  If your cheque is not received within five working days your place on the course cannot be guaranteed.  All payments must be received before the 28 October 2011.

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COURSE DETAIL

Date: 28 November 2010
Time: 11.30 am – 4.30 pm
Location: NoSweat Journalism Training, 16/17 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0AN
Cost: CIoJ members – £50, non-CIoJ members – £75

Susan Elkin has specially designed this workshop to help Freelancers develop new ideas when normal sources of work have dried up, or publications have suddenly closed. Susan’s Workshop will cover:

• Ideas for moving beyond what you do normally.
• Reinventing yourself as, when and as often as necessary.
• Being businesslike.
• Presenting the right image.
• Exploiting new media.
• How to find new outlets.

Notes will be available on the day for delegates

Afternoon
Making Money From Your Journalism – 2.30 – 4.30 pm

Google News has some 30 million readers a day, making it the world’s largest single source of news. However, the secrets of getting your stories in there have only been available to large newsgathering corporations until now.

Alun has spent the last few months with Google Insiders and can now reveal how you, as a journalist, can be accepted and can quickly make good money from your journalism.

The afternoon workshop: Google News uncovered…

• Ways of making exceptional profits with little or no overheads.
• Have Google advertise around your pieces and be paid monthly, by Google.
• The skills of writing about products which pay an affiliate fee – as much as £200.
• Special techniques, based on the writing of headlines, to increase your earnings.
• Techniques to outsource most of the hard work.
• How to bring hundreds or thousands of readers to your news within minutes – and lots of requests from Companies or their PR agents.

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28 November 2010

GOOGLE NEWS has some 30 million readers a day, making it the world’s largest single source of news.

However, the secrets of getting your stories in there have only been available to large newsgathering corporations until now.

This course will reveal how you, as a journalist, can diversify, and, use your skills to reach a wider market. It will also show you how you can quickly make good money from your journalism.

How to exploit new media and make the most of opportunities that are out there just waiting for you.

For example, you can charge companies £20 or more just to reproduce their press releases, you can have Google advertise around your pieces and be paid monthly, by Google, directly into your bank account with no invoicing required.

A special technique, based on the writing of headlines, will be revealed, increasing your earnings substantially.

Because of the way Google News works, the pieces you write will be at the top of Google within 10 minutes, automatically bringing hundreds or thousands of readers to your news within minutes – and lots of requests from Companies and their PR agents to be involved – making you even more money.
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TRAINING WORKSHOP

Media law in a digital age

Suitable for:

Journalists who need to update their legal knowledge and improve the way they apply it in a digital age.

Duration:

One day – 28 January 2010.

Delivery:

Workshop style: short ‘lectures’, interspersed with discussion, questions and answers, problem solving exercises and practical exercises.

Outline:

• Your notes;

• Your sources;

• Defamation – message boards, UGC, blogs etc;

• Contempt of court – archives, ID;

• Privacy – words and photos;

• Data Protection Act;

• PCC code / Ofcom code;

• Twitter, Facebook and other social media;

• Copyright

Cost:  £100 non-members, £60 members

Course tutor:

The course will be delivered by Cleland Thom, Director, Potential.GB.com – http://www.potential.gb.com/website/about_us.php – who is an expert on media law.

To book:

To book your place on the course contact Head Office for more details and a booking form – 020 7252 1187, memberservices@cioj.co.uk .

DOWNLOAD a booking form here…

Woolfram-Alpha Exposed!

There’s a new search engine – and it could almost have been designed especially for journalists!

Learn the real power of this new online program, which offers the first real alternative to Google.

- Want to know about a specific date? Type it in – and get “what happened on this day”.

- Need unemployment figures for Birmingham – get them in seconds and then easily compare them with any other city.

- Search “breast cancer UK” and get the death rates, the probability of death and much, much more – in seconds. Then compare by region or country, easily.

There are lots of examples which make a journalists life much easier – and enable you to get accurate data much faster than ever before – and for free.

Twitter – heard it all?

The Government is asking civil servants to use Twitter to get news out on “issues of relevance or upcoming events”.

Numerous journalists use it…and more than one million people follow Downing Street’s business via Twitter. Easily get breaking news, make useful contacts and keep up with developing trends – regardless of your speciality.

It’s a great way to get commissions, too! We will show you how…

Advanced Google Searching

How often do you give up on what should be a simple search?

The trouble is that Google doesn’t tell you the best way to search – and they almost hide the special button which is your secret login to an easy world of search – search which is fast and free.

Become an “instant search expert”!

DATE: 6 October 2009, 10.00am
VENUE: CIoJ Head Office, 2 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road, London  SE16 2XU

Your trainer…

Alun Hill MCIJ

Alun is Google Qualified (and admits that he knows most people don’t even know you COULD be Google qualified!). The exam needs to be re-taken every 2 years.

He personally runs a large number of websites and writes all in-house documentation, press releases and website info for a well-known London hotel and a call centre.

His site for people who have been scammed is world famous, generating information and queries daily, hence his particular knowledge of internet searching.

Most of his other sites are travel and health related.

He’s known for espousing jargon and corporate speak and spends his free time teaching the Internet – mostly to journalists he meets on Press trips (whom he then encourages to join the CIoJ, of course!).

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