Love sports? Love event planning? We’ve got a course for you. One of our newest offerings, Sports Event Marketing, begins on Wednesday May 1, 2013. In this intensive course, you’ll get hands-on experience creating a mock sports marketing campaign portfolio from an agency, corporate sponsor, or team franchise perspective. Interested? Register here. Use the promo code SPORTS50 to save $50 at checkout. This special offer expires April 30, 2013.

Instructor Michele Lago (left) is an event planner and sports marketer who has worked at five Olympic games, six Super Bowls, and two Masters. Her client list includes The Coca-Cola Company, SportsMark, Special Olympics, and The Sports Authority. During an interview with Michele, we asked what her most exciting event was. She said:

“My favorite event during that time (and my husband would likely agree) was the 2007 [Sports Illustrated] Swimsuit Issue Launch Party. That was the year Beyoncé was on the cover, and we hosted a 750-person VIP party in Hollywood with all the swimsuit models. The party was logistically and creatively challenging and was one of my first large high-profile events that I managed, so I always think back on it and smile.”

You can read the rest of our interview with Michele or visit the course site to learn more about the program and register.

We have some exciting internal news to share on this Friday afternoon involving our sister site FishbowlNY.

Two weeks after co-editor Jerry Barmash accepted a TV reporter job with the New York Daily News and bid farewell to Mediabistro readers, his replacement has been confirmed. Starting Monday, April 15 as co-editor alongside Chris O’Shea will be former TheWrap media reporter Alexander C. Kaufman.

“I interviewed with a couple of other companies,” Kaufman tells us this afternoon via telephone from Boston. “I’m really excited to be joining Mediabistro and look forward to helping continue to grow the FishbowlNY brand.” Kaufman, a native of Long Island, will be based in New York.

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Extend your social media impact and collaborate with experts in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp. Save $100 with our early bird rate. Don’t miss out—this special rate ends tomorrow.

Each week, we’ll discuss essential topics with social media thought leaders that will help you develop a cohesive marketing strategy and amplify your presence across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms.

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Do you want to raise your editing skills above baseline? Then don’t miss Copy Editing 101, Mediabistro’s online event and workshop starting tomorrow, March 6. Learn tips, tricks, and best practices to hone your skills as a copy editor. Over four weeks, we’ll cover:

• How to spot errors at the sentence level and master a copy test
• Navigating the style guides from AP to The Chicago Manual
• Copy editing techniques for book publishing, magazine and website editing, and your own personal writing
• A basic overview of Adobe InCopy, a program designed to streamline your workflow
• Where to look and how to land copy editing work

Our weekly live video webcasts feature industry professionals such as Jack Murnighan (content director, Babble), Erin Carlson (copy editor, The Hollywood Reporter), and Constance Hale (author, Vex, Hex, Smash, and Smooch).

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level, join today. The event starts tomorrow at 12 pm ET, so register now.

Will Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest nominee in Academy Awards history, pull off the unlikely upset in the Best Actress category and take the trophy away from Silver Linings Playbook’s Jennifer Lawrence? Can Daniel Day-Lewis cap his streak of memorable 2012 awards season acceptance speeches with one more rousing Lincoln moment? And will Seth MacFarlane zing and dance ABC to solid overnight ratings?

On Monday, February 25 at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET, we’ll know the answers to these questions and much more. Join Gold Derby maestro Tom O’Neil, KCRW producer Darby Maloney (The Business), TVNewser senior editor Alex Weprin, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and FishbowlLA co-editor Richard Horgan for a special post-Oscars Google+ hangout on the Mediabistro home page, FishbowlLA and at Google+. (You can also click into that link to request a reminder notification of the event.)

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Here at Mediabistro, we talk to employers and job seekers every day and have heard that the interview process can be daunting – for both parties. It’s easy to lose your train of thought, ask a ridiculous question and-or get so nervous that you trip and fall on your way into the interviewer’s office.

So, job seekers… We want to know: What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done during a job interview?

Enter our contest now for the chance to win a free seat in Mediabistro’s Job Search Intensive (worth $145) that starts on January 29 online. All you have to do is follow @Mediabistro and tweet us your travails in 140 characters or less.

Include #InterviewFail in your tweet and you’re in! The winner with the answer that cracks us up the most will be announced on Friday, January 25 at 11:45 am ET via our @Mediabistro Twitter account. Good luck!

The Mediabistro job board is the best place to find top media candidates for your open positions. Companies like Google, Amazon, and AOL post with us —you should too!

If you asked us to recommend an important skill to have this year, website design would be near the top. Luckily, Mediabistro offers two courses with top-notch teachers that will help you achieve this skill.

In our HTML and CSS class starting January 22 online, instructor Laura Galbraith, an experienced web designer, will show you how to build or improve a website using coding (HTML) and cascading style sheets (CSS). By the end of class, you’ll have HTML5 experience as well as sample work. Spots are limited, so sign up soon.

You can build an incredible website without coding experience. Join our Create Your Own Website Using WordPress class starting January 23 online. Instructor Sallie Goetsch has been building on WordPress since 2005. You’ll leave this class with a live website that you can maintain on your own. Spots are limited, so sign up soon.

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There’s still time to register at a discount for a pair of events being staged next week at the Marina del Rey Marriott by Mediabistro blogs Social Times and AllFacebook together with our parent company WebMediaBrands.

On Wednesday December 12, speakers at the Social Curation Summit will include Storify co-founder Burt Herman, StumbleUpon head of product monetization Jack Krawzwyk and Pinfluencer CEO Sharad Verma. The list of panelists is equally impressive for the Social Gaming & Gambling Summit, set to follow December 13-14 at the same venue. To name just a few: RockYou COO Josh Grant, Adobe’s group product marketing manager for gaming solutions Diane Helander and head of games & Apps for Facebook global vertical marketing Niranjan Nagar.

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When you hear a letter written by Thomas Jefferson being read by actor Sam Waterston or see a photograph showing the intensity in the eyes of a Civil War soldier, you know you’re watching a Ken Burns documentary.

In this episode of My First Big Break, the iconic filmmaker tells the MediabistroTV crew how he channeled his feelings of humiliation into his first masterpiece on the Brooklyn Bridge and reveals how his mother’s death sparked his need to bring the dead back to life, shaping the style we know today as the “Ken Burns Effect.”

For more videos, check out our YouTube channel and follow us on Twitter: @mediabistroTV

A successful pitch to Worth will land your piece in front of a highly exclusive audience: Only select readers with a minimum net worth of $5 million are invited to subscribe. The pub is also available on newsstands with its book-quality paper and elegant graphic design for $18.95 a copy. Though the mag has been around for 20 years, it recently underwent a reinvention, shifting its focus away from trusts and estates to a younger, more entrepreneurial set.

“I’d say [Worth] is much more about stories than before, and we’re always looking for great profiles and Q&As on people who are under the radar but doing interesting things, as well as extraordinary luxe items and experiences,” said managing editor Emily DeNitto.

For more information on what to pitch, read How To Pitch: Worth. [subscription required]