{"id":320,"date":"2008-04-15T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-04-21T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:48:43","slug":"lamp-insight-seminars-creating-online-buzz-growing-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/lamp-insight-seminars-creating-online-buzz-growing-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"LAMP Insight Seminars &#8211; Creating Online Buzz, Growing Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Inviting Participants to Your Party and Keeping Them There\u2019 will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"lamp-insight-pic2\" src=\"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lamp-insight-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This LAMP Insight Seminar series in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne examines techniques to attract online audiences and keep them coming back for more. It also explores how to effectively promote a project online, initiate conversations with online audiences and build and manage communities.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to get participants thinking on their feet and engaging with the latest techniques of building online audiences and managing growth &#8211; participants will find out how to keep a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Key topics explored during the seminars include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What techniques can be used to build an online audience<\/li>\n<li>How to prepare for massive membership signups<\/li>\n<li>How to make sure content is \u2018findable\u2019 on the internet<\/li>\n<li>What the best techniques are to gain, retain and manage members in a social network<\/li>\n<li>How to build trust and plan for a self sustaining network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The LAMP Insight 2008 Seminar Series 1 includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating Online Buzz and Growing Communities   Hobart &#8211; 10-May-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A must for writers, designers, filmmakers, producers, gamers and marketers, or anyone, who wants to build and maintain an online presence. This one day seminar with a workshop component will empower participants to:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the strengths and weaknesses of existing social networks<\/li>\n<li>Explore the emerging opportunities of online media to enrich creative projects<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate tools and techniques for building online communities<\/li>\n<li>Stay up to date with the latest cutting edge work in web 2.0, mobile media, advanced TV, games and virtual worlds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/creatingonlinebuzzandgrowingcommunities.aspx?iteration_id=5600&amp;PEPICourseID=281\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Worlds: Turning Stories Into Games Hobart &#8211; 28-May-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Find out how to adapt your story for the world of games. Come and hear award-winning novelist, TV and games writer Matt Costello talk about the key ingredients for planning, writing, designing and structuring a compelling game. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/growingworldsturningstoriesintogames.aspx?iteration_id=5566&amp;PEPICourseID=257\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects Sydney &#8211; 19-Jun-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cut through the jargon and find out the true potential of Web 2.0 to initiate conversations with global audiences. Areas include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Techniques to use to build an online audience<\/li>\n<li>Using blogs, wikis and social networks to connect with global communities of interest<\/li>\n<li>The best techniques to encourage people to virally distribute your content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/generatingonlinebuzzforcreativeprojects.aspx?iteration_id=5602&amp;PEPICourseID=282\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Building Social Networks and Growing Communities Sydney &#8211; 20-Jun-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A one day seminar with a workshop component designed to get you thinking on your feet and engaging with the latest techniques to build and manage fast growing social networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This course is focussed on how business needs can be met by supporting an online social network and is ideal for those with a reasonable grasp of user applications such as blogs, wikis, and tagging &#8211; even if you are currently a forum or community leader, you may not have thought of all the insights this course presents on running a community. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/buildingsocialnetworksandgrowingcommunities.aspx?iteration_id=5606&amp;PEPICourseID=283\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects Melbourne &#8211; 4-Jul-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cut through the jargon and find out the true potential of Web 2.0 to initiate conversations with global audiences. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/generatingonlinebuzzforcreativeprojects.aspx?iteration_id=5603&amp;PEPICourseID=282\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Building Social Networks and Growing Communities Melbourne &#8211; 5-Jul-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Find out how to community maintain user engagement and ensure your online audience comes back for more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/buildingsocialnetworksandgrowingcommunities.aspx?iteration_id=5605&amp;PEPICourseID=283\" target=\"_blank\">Course Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers in the series include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laurel Papworth &#8211; Social Network Strategist<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Moyle \u2013 Joffre Street Productions<\/li>\n<li>Gary Hayes \u2013 AFTRS Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/\" target=\"_self\">LAMP<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Andrew Apostola \u2013 Portable Content<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Gleeson \u2013 AFTRS Interactive Media Lecturer<\/li>\n<li>Peter Giles \u2013 AFTRS Director of Digital Media Division<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to apply:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/\/courses\/industryshortcourses\/CreatingOnlineBuzzandGrowingCommunities.aspx?apply=now&amp;iteration_id=5600&amp;is_competitive=0&amp;PEPICourseID=281\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> or call 03 6223 5983 during business hours for more information.<\/li>\n<li>Be quick places are limited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Venue and fee for Tasmania only:<br \/>\n<strong>Course Location: <\/strong>Hobart Function Centre, Elizabeth St Pier, Hobart, TAS<br \/>\n<strong>Start Date: <\/strong>10-May-2008<br \/>\n<strong>Finish Date: <\/strong>10-May-2008<br \/>\n<strong>Duration: <\/strong>1 day 9.30-5.00pm<br \/>\n<strong>Course Fee: <\/strong>$120<br \/>\n<strong>Applications Deadline: <\/strong>25-Apr-2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Inviting Participants to Your Party and Keeping Them There\u2019 will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. 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