CERTIFICATE Use this course to earn a certificate in Digital Project Management and Social Media Marketing.

DETAILS

DETAILS

Great public speakers aren't born; they're trained.

In the first part of this course, we'll focus on nuts-and-bolts tips and techniques for becoming a more confident and competent public speaker. In the second part, students will be assessed on their abilities to apply the learning to specific presentations and coached to address areas of improvement.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Captivate and engage an audience
• Use "Power Periods" and oral techniques to project competence
• Walk, gesture, and position your body to convey strength
• Interact with displays, notes, and PowerPoint presentations
• Come up with customized ways to improve your own personal public speaking style

By the end of class, you will have:
The skills to speak confidently and with authority to engage any audience.

WHAT Interactive online conference & workshop

DETAILS

See our Job Search Intensive website.

Looking for a job can be tough and it's easy to get discouraged. At Mediabistro, we talk to hiring managers and employers every day, and we know what companies are looking for. Our innovative 4-week online conference is designed to help you discover your unique qualifications and learn how to showcase your skills to employers. Join us. It could make all the difference in your job search.

Learn from leaders in career management how to:

• Define your target job and learn how to get the position you're after
• Effectively communicate your core skills and competencies in your resume, cover letters, and online presence
• Create your personal brand and use social media to get the word out about your strengths and your goals
• Activate your professional network
• Improve your face-to-face connections and create connections online

The discussion topics, along with interactive conversations with advisors and peers, will help you target your goals, refine your search, and move forward with your career.

Click here for full details and to see a list of past guest speakers.

WHAT Interactive online conference & workshop

DETAILS

See our Job Search Intensive website.

Looking for a job can be tough and it's easy to get discouraged. At Mediabistro, we talk to hiring managers and employers every day, and we know what companies are looking for. Our innovative 4-week online conference is designed to help you discover your unique qualifications and learn how to showcase your skills to employers. Join us. It could make all the difference in your job search.

Learn from leaders in career management how to:

• Define your target job and learn how to get the position you're after
• Effectively communicate your core skills and competencies in your resume, cover letters, and online presence
• Create your personal brand and use social media to get the word out about your strengths and your goals
• Activate your professional network
• Improve your face-to-face connections and create connections online

The discussion topics, along with interactive conversations with advisors and peers, will help you target your goals, refine your search, and move forward with your career.

Click here for full details and to see a list of past guest speakers.

CERTIFICATE Use this course to earn a certificate in Digital Project Management and Social Media Marketing.

DETAILS

The words project management are cropping up on job listings, as companies need dedicated overseers to keep complex projects on track. Knowing the skills and processes that successful project managers use can help you get your next job or move ahead in your current role.

In this course, you'll learn how to successfully manage an existing project or new product launch from conception to completion. We will cover the creative, analytical, and organizational skills you need to connect the dots between different departments and keep projects on task.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of a project manager
• Oversee new product development from conception to execution
• Create specs, wireframes, and other key project management documents
• Collect feedback and implement improvements based on analytics, beta and A/B testing, and focus groups
• Manage an existing product or project

By the end of class, you will have:
Hands-on experience creating project management documents using Microsoft Project and Visio, and an understanding of best practices used to manage new or existing digital projects.

CERTIFICATE Use this course to earn a certificate in Digital Project Management.

DETAILS

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of a product manager
• Oversee new product development from conception to execution
• Create and prioritize requirements, user stories, use cases, and product management documents
• Consider user experience and design elements as a component of strategy
• Collect feedback and implement improvements based on analytics, beta and A/B testing, and focus groups
• Manage an existing product

By the end of class, you will have:
Hands-on experience creating product management documents and an understanding of best practices used to manage new or existing digital products.

CERTIFICATE Use this course to earn a certificate in Digital Project Management and Social Media Marketing.

DETAILS

WHAT Conference & Workshop

DETAILS

Great public speakers aren't born; they're trained.

In the first part of this course, we'll focus on nuts-and-bolts tips and techniques for becoming a more confident and competent public speaker. In the second part, students will be assessed on their abilities to apply the learning to specific presentations and coached to address areas of improvement.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Captivate and engage an audience
• Use "Power Periods" and oral techniques to project competence
• Walk, gesture, and position your body to convey strength
• Interact with displays, notes, and PowerPoint presentations
• Come up with customized ways to improve your own personal public speaking style

By the end of class, you will have:
The skills to speak confidently and with authority to engage any audience.

DETAILS

• Lessons: Learn new skills through video-based lessons
• Discussions: Join a weekly live, interactive discussion via IM and video
• Assignments: Complete homework and receive instructor feedback
• Forums: Exchange resources, meet peers, and ask your instructor questions

DETAILS

Learn best practices for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Foursquare, YouTube, and Flickr. For details, see our Social Media 101 website.

More advanced students who want to create a social media strategy should consider our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp. 

All classes are available online, with select classes also offered in NYC.

WHAT Six courses leading to a complete skill set in copywriting. Plus AvantGuild membership and a Freelance Marketplace listing.

DETAILS

Learn how to write razor-sharp ad copy, build a brilliant portfolio, and create a career in advertising in our Ad Copywriting Certificate Program. 

As you progress through a range of copywriting classes, you'll discover how new media is creating new opportunities for creative writers in content of all kinds. 

Students in the program also get access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

• Write copy for all advertising media
• Develop a unique brand voice and message
• Create a portfolio to showcase your work

Course of Study

The certificate is awarded to students who successfully complete the 4 required courses and 2 electives within one year. Students receive a letter of completion and certificate suitable for display.

Required Courses

• Copywriting: Creative Ad Writing
• Copywriting for the Web
• Copywriting: Advanced
• Brand Writing

Choose Two Electives

• Copywriting for the Web: Advanced
• Adobe Illustrator
• Search and Online Marketing 
• Writing and Editing for the Web
• Web Analytics

Additional Resources

The Mediabistro Ad Copywriting Certificate Program includes access for 12 months to the following resources:

• Freelance Marketplace
  Showcase your work and get jobs from managers who need to fill editorial assignments.
• AvantGuild
  Make your professional life a little easier and a lot more productive with premium access to mediabistro.com's career-focused resources, editorial content, discounts, and other member benefits.

Admission and Enrollment

Students have 2 certificate options.

1) Enroll in each required class separately and apply for the certificate when you have completed all requirements.

2) Enroll in the full program for $1650. Only program enrollees receive priority notice about upcoming courses, expedited enrollment, 1 year of access to , Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Courses must be completed within one calendar year. Questions? Email us.

Mediabistro Self-Paced Courses: Learning for the independent-minded. No teachers, no fellow students. Just a rich multimedia curriculum designed to teach you what you need to know.

DETAILS

In this follow-up to our Copy Editing self-paced course, learn the finer points of copy editing to land more work and command higher rates. You'll learn how to expertly recast sentences, create an in-house style guide, and handle permissions and other legal concerns when copy editing. We'll also show you how to launch your own copy editing business and negotiate bids for work.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Create and maintain style sheets and in-house style guides
• Edit front and back matter for book projects
• Understand the rules and reasoning behind your grammar corrections
• Understand expository style -- how and when to recast sentences
• Consider permissions and legal concerns -- when to flag for libel, fair use, or incorrect terminology

Check out the complete syllabus.

The self-paced course includes:

• A video introduction with Mediabistro copy editing instructor Cheryl Della Pietra
• 5 written lessons
• 3 video tutorial lessons and crib sheets
• 8 assignments and answer keys
• 2 copy tests with style sheets and answer keys
• 3 supplemental videos on grammar and line editing

By the end of this course, you will have:
Experience copy editing with AP Style, The Chicago Manual of Style, in-house style guides, and style sheets. Plus, you'll gain an understanding of additional responsibilities that go along with copy editing, such as managing permissions and legal concerns.

How the self-paced classroom works:

• You have access to the course platform for three months. Please note, if you sign up after 6 pm ET Monday-Friday, your email invitation will be sent the following business day. 
• Mediabistro's education team is available to answer your questions.
• There are no other students and no instructor. Students are invited to post comments on our community forum of media professionals to interact with others in the field. 

All classes are available online, with select classes also offered in NYC.

WHAT A multi-course program for a complete skill set in copy editing. Plus AvantGuild membership and a Freelance Marketplace listing.

DETAILS

Mediabistro's Copy Editing Certificate Program provides extensive practical training in this marketable field. You'll progress through intro, intermediate, and advanced copy editing classes and build a solid grammar foundation. In the electives of your choice, you'll broaden your skills to understand the finer points of grammar and style.

You'll also get access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Mediabistro is the premier online education program for media professionals. When you graduate from the program, you will receive a certificate that will enhance your resume -- and your job prospects.

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

• Edit clear, readable copy for publication in print or online
• Create, update, and use style guides
• Pass an edit test and know how to find work as a copy editor

Course of Study

The certificate is awarded to students who successfully complete the 4 required courses and 2 electives within one year. Students receive a letter of completion and certificate suitable for display.

Required Courses

• Copy Editing 101 or Copy Editing: Intro
• Copy Editing: Intermediate
• Copy Editing: Advanced
• Grammar and Punctuation

Choose Two Electives

• Grammar: Advanced
• Writing and Editing for the Web
• Develop a Freelance Career
• InDesign for Writers and Editors

Additional Resources

The Mediabistro Copy Editing Certificate Program includes access for 12 months to the following mediabistro.com resources:

• Freelance Marketplace
  Showcase your work and get jobs from managers who need to fill editorial assignments.
• AvantGuild
  Make your professional life a little easier and a lot more productive with premium access to mediabistro.com's career-focused resources, editorial content, discounts, and other member benefits.

Admission and Enrollment

Students have 2 certificate options.

1) Enroll in each required class separately and apply for the certificate when you have completed all requirements.

2) Enroll in the full program for $1650. Only program enrollees receive priority notice about upcoming courses, expedited enrollment, 1 year of access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Testimonial

The Copy Editing Certificate Program helped me a lot in my current position. I recommend it to others because there are great tips and best practices that all editors and non-editors should know about. The classes are great refresher courses for someone  like me who edits and proofreads marketing and communications materials on a regular basis.

-- Yvette Bigornia

Courses must be completed within one calendar year. Questions? Email us.

Mediabistro Self-Paced Courses: Learning for the independent-minded. No teachers, no fellow students. Just a rich multimedia curriculum designed to teach you what you need to know.

DETAILS

Find out how to pass edit tests, fact check, and launch your career as a copy editor. You'll learn how to resolve punctuation issues, spot and correct common errors, and craft elegant sentences. You'll also discover how to adapt your resume to land work as a freelancer or full-time staffer.

Assignments include copy editing newspaper stories, magazine features, press releases, marketing materials, online copy, and fiction.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Understand grammar, in-house style, and the work flow of a copy editor
• Identify an em dash, en dash, and appropriate hyphen usage
• Identify and correct commonly misused words, agreement, parallelism, capitalization, and headline style
• Fix modifier issues like dangling participles, modifier placement, and antecedent problems
• Appropriately use a semicolon, period, colon, ellipsis, exclamation point, question mark, and single quotes

Check out the complete syllabus.

The self-paced course includes:

• A video introduction from Mediabistro copy editing instructor Cheryl Della Pietra
• 11 written lessons 
• 11 resource lists
• 12 copy tests and answer keys
• 8 supplemental videos on proofreading marks and queries, fact-checking, electronic editing and track changes, and life as a copy editor 

By the end of this course, you will have:
Experience copy editing with both AP Style and The Chicago Manual of Style and experience copy editing seven kinds of manuscripts (fiction excerpt, medical text, press release, newspaper story, academic text, online story, and magazine feature).

How the self-paced classroom works:

• You have access to the course platform for three months. Please note, if you sign up after 6 pm ET Monday-Friday, your email invitation will be sent the following business day. 
• Mediabistro's education team is available to answer your questions.
• There are no other students and no instructor. Students are invited to post comments on our community forum of media professionals to interact with others in the field.

All classes are available online, with select classes also offered in NYC.

WHAT Six courses leading to a complete skill set in digital journalism. Plus AvantGuild membership and a Freelance Marketplace listing.

DETAILS

Mediabistro's Digital Journalism Certificate Program provides extensive practical training in content creation for new media platforms. You'll progress through a curriculum designed for media professionals who want to learn how to produce multimedia packages, use social media to report and promote stories, and write and edit for the web. In the electives of your choice, you'll learn more about podcasting, blogging, or online video.

Students in the program also get access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Mediabistro is the premier online education program for media professionals. When you graduate from the program, you will receive a certificate that will enhance your resume -- and your job prospects.

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

• Write and edit clear, compelling copy for the web
• Conceive and create multimedia packages for the web
• Understand the tools and trends that are transforming media

Course of Study

The certificate is awarded to students who successfully complete the 4 required courses and 2 electives within one year. Students receive a letter of completion and certificate suitable for display.

Required Courses

• Multimedia Journalism
• Writing and Editing for the Web
• Digital Production for Writers and Editors
• Digital Content Strategy

Choose Two Electives

• Social Media 101 or Social Media Marketing Boot Camp
• Blogging
• Web Analytics
• HTML 
• Create Your Own Website Using Wordpress

Additional Resources

The Mediabistro Digital Journalism Certificate Program includes access for 12 months to the following mediabistro.com resources:

• Freelance Marketplace
  Showcase your work and get jobs from managers who need to fill editorial assignments.
• AvantGuild
  Make your professional life a little easier and a lot more productive with premium access to mediabistro.com's career-focused resources, editorial content, discounts, and other member benefits.

Admission and Enrollment

Students have 2 certificate options.

1) Enroll in each required class separately and apply for the certificate when you have completed all requirements.

2) Enroll in the full program for $1650. Only program enrollees receive priority notice about upcoming courses, expedited enrollment, 1 year of access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Courses must be completed within one calendar year. Questions? Email us.

All classes are available online, with select classes also offered in NYC.

WHAT Six courses leading to a complete skill set in digital marketing. Plus AvantGuild membership and a Freelance Marketplace listing.

DETAILS

Mediabistro's Digital Marketing Certificate Program provides hands-on training in the fundamentals of online marketing. You'll review how to maximize search marketing potential for your company or client, how to create a social media marketing strategy, execute an email marketing campaign, and draft marketing copy for blogs and websites. In the electives of your choice, you'll refine your expertise to improve your practical and strategic approach to digital marketing.

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

• Organize and execute a multifaceted online marketing strategy
• Launch a social media marketing campaign on Twitter, Facebook, and other networking sites -- and use analytics to measure its success
• Implement research techniques to improve the search ranking of your company's website

Students in the program also get access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Course of Study

The certificate is awarded to students who successfully complete the 4 required courses and 2 electives within one year. Students receive a letter of completion and certificate suitable for display.

Required Courses

• Online Marketing
• Online Marketing: Advanced
• Search and Online Marketing
• Web Analytics

Choose Two Electives

• Facebook Marketing or Facebook Marketing Intensive
• Twitter Marketing
• Strategic Mobile Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Marketing With Social Video
• Social Media Marketing Boot Camp

Additional Resources

The Mediabistro Digital Marketing Certificate Program includes access for 12 months to the following mediabistro.com resources:

• Freelance Marketplace
  Showcase your work and get jobs from managers who need to fill editorial assignments.
• AvantGuild
  Make your professional life a little easier and a lot more productive with premium access to mediabistro.com's career-focused resources, editorial content, discounts, and other member benefits.

Admission and Enrollment

Students have 2 certificate options.

1) Enroll in each required class separately and apply for the certificate when you have completed all requirements.

2) Enroll in the full program for $1650. Only program enrollees receive priority notice about upcoming courses, expedited enrollment, 1 year of access to Freelance Marketplace and AvantGuild.

Courses must be completed within one calendar year. Questions? Email us.