This Special Awesome Week in MB Learning

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MONDAY
Creative Prose Writing Boot Camp: This class will focus on the practice of prose writing based on three basic principles: learning to read as a writer, a weekly two-page writing exercise designed to exhibit and broaden your range, and finally longer works that students will present for an in-depth discussion.
Writing for the Gay Press: Since being queer makes you an instant expert in LGBT life –- and society is more compelled by the subject than ever before –- now is the perfect time to focus on how to sell some big gay stories to some big gay (and not-so-gay) newspapers, magazines, and websites.
TUESDAY
MY CLASS! Breaking into Blogging: This seminar is for writers (or aspiring writers) curious about whether they should create a blog how to make their blog worth reading, blogging etiquette, and utilizing their blog to enhance their writing career.
Basic Training: Intro to Writing for Women’s Magazines: Get your foot in the door at the top mags
Copyediting 101: This three-hour seminar will tell you all you need to know about starting your copyediting career.
WEDNESDAY
Figuring Out Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, and Whatever’s Next: You will go home with plenty of useful ideas from this fun, informative, fast-paced seminar.
THURSDAY
Fashion Writing 101: In this seminar, you will be provided with enough information and resources to get started in a career as a fashion writer.
SATURDAY
Basic Training: Intro to Writing for Women’s TV and Cable Shows: This course will teach you what you need to know about women’s television networks and how to break into this exciting and growing industry.
Career Reinvention Toolkit: A three-part online audio seminar on putting your career dreams into action
WEST
TUESDAY
Copyediting & Proofreading for Magazine, Newspaper, and Website Staffers: For anyone who works with editorial copy for magazines or newspapers, learn foolproof tricks to making sure you’re not staring at mistakes on the page after the printing.
WEDNESDAY
Create Your Own Website Using HTML in San Francisco: Learn the fundamentals of building and updating a website
THURSDAY
Full Frontal PR: The Perfect Pitch for Your Product, Person, or Idea: This is all about the ability to utilize emerging cultural phenomena—and aligning yourself with news before it becomes big!
SATURDAY
The mb One-Day Workshop: Writing (and Publishing) the Food Essay: Best-selling author Laura Fraser, who writes for Gourmet and has been included in the Best Food Writing 2000 and 2002 anthologies, will help you transform what’s on your plate into publication.
Grammar A-Z: Tips, tricks, and differences of grammar and style
The Drama Writer’s Room: Two-Day Intensive Workshop: This class will recreate the authentic experience of a professional writers’ room to give students the feel of what it’s really like to work in the television industry.

MEDIABISTRO EVENTS

Launch a Successful Social Media Campaign

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting this Thursday, February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Michael Brito (Edelman Digital), and Tim Devane (bitly). Register now.