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Three big thumbs downs (or as they say on Fox 5 in New York, “Shame, shame, shame!”) to share today:

• A big thumbs down for the tipster who sent us the info about layoffs at Steinreich, which we are told is inaccurate.
• A big thumbs down for Steinreich president Stan Steinreich, who waited until after the story was published to contact us to tell us that his company has hired five people in the past month, not laid off seven, and that the offices in New York, LA, and DC have not closed. Yes, he waited until after the story was published, despite multiple requests for comment spaced out over more than 24 hours.
• And, yes, a thumbs down for us. We ran the story, we need to eat our humble pie (despite running out of thumbs, pies, and plums–if that is how the rhyme goes). It’s a blog. Sometimes people lie to bloggers (shocking!). It happens, but ultimately it’s our fault, and we apologize for the error. But if you have any more information, please contact us.

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.

At the end of the month, Mediabistro.com will offer an interactive online workshop aimed at getting you a new job.

Job Search Boot Camp runs from Jan. 31 to Feb. 21, with four weeks of live workshops and guided assignments.

If you register before the 17th it’s only $79.

Happy career hunting!

It’s not too late to register for Mediabistro.com’s job search boot camp, which begins tomorrow and costs $145. Each week for four weeks there will be a live online presentation and in between presentations you can catch up in a special form for classmates, complete homework assignments, and (we hope) land a new job. Watch the video above to learn how online courses work.

Here’s the course description:

In a four-week online event, Mediabistro presents their brand-new Job Search Boot Camp, October 27 – November 17. This online conference and hands-on workshop is designed to help you discover your unique qualifications and learn how to showcase your skills to employers.

You’ll 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

Speakers include Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby; Kathy Caprino, a nationally recognized work-life expert; Dan Schawbel, a personal branding master; and Allison Cheston, a career advisor.

That’s just the name we came up with for the eight-week program that mediabistro is putting on that begins tomorrow.

The session features a few of the same speakers from the “summer session” (Tameka Kee, Robert Scoble) which made us remember: check out our coverage of the summer session!

Johnica Reed on getting a job on Quora…The most social state…..“customer service” for a blog….

At any rate, if you missed this the first time around, it’s not exactly the same class now, but is starting tomorrow nonetheless. Register here.

It feels like it was only yesterday that Mediabistro gave away some pricey tickets to a sports game but they’re at it again, this time giving away two tickets to the Yankees-Red Sox Game for Sunday, Sept. 25th to Kim Crain, VP of HR for CafeMom.com.

“We always get quality candidates for editorial positions through Mediabistro,” Crain told Mediabistro. “It made my day” to win the prize package, which certain advertisers are available for. (We originally had this post reading “which anyone who posts jobs to the mediabistro.com board is eligible for,” but that is not true—shows how much we know. There are restrictions based on geography and some other stuff, so if you are a job board advertiser please check with your sales rep for more details.)

If you’re more of the get a job than the post a job type, CafeMom has a few open positions right this minute so maybe you want to consider that, since they love mediabistro candidates so much!

What are you doing Aug. 23? Coming to Mediabistro’s free event, that’s what. Drink specials, free apps, and mediabistro’s course instructors will be there waiting for you. Ask the teachers, who are also agents, editors, designers, reporters, and producers, for advice about your media projects or about breaking into a new career. Attending will be:

Caitlin Alexander, Derek Scheips, Franz Wisner, Kate Harrison, Grace Begany, Gracey Newman, Harriet Bell, James Fuerst,Jessica Bennett, Julia Dahl, Kim Taylor, Magdalena Alagna Schmidt, Nicole Halton, Pamela Bobowicz,Patricia Ryan, Tiffany Black, ;Laura Lachman,Rebecca Webber, Ryan D. Harbage, Jacquie Hann, andWendy Gillette.

The deets: August 23, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, at The Empire Room. RSVPs required, which you can do here.

The mothership does one of these giveaways from time to time, so we just thought you should know that the most recent winner of mediabistro.com’s sporting ticket giveaway is Jamie Weisberg, Human Resources Manager at Morpheus Media.

“Mediabistro caters to the audience we are looking to hire, which is Display, Social Media, SEO, and SEM talent,” Weisberg told mediabistro.com’s job board staff.

Weisberg gets two tickets to the game Aug. 12 with sit-down dining, waiter service, access to private lounges, and more; the package is valued at $1300.

The semiregular contests are open to anyone who posts a job to mediabistro.com. Morpheus currently has seven positions open on the board so while you may not have won Yankees tickets you may be a job winner if social media or search marketing is your thing.

Mediabistro.com’s annual Career Circus is this Thursday, so if you haven’t registered yet there’s still a little time.

The NYC-based daylong event has sessions for jobseekers and career-changers alike.

Among the speakers: Andrew Goldman, vice president of program planning and scheduling at HBO, who will talk about how to anticipate industry trends in order to build a meaningful career, and Richard Cho (pictured), recruiting manager at Facebook, who will discuss trends in social recruiting.

It’s $145 for the day, but if you can sign up two of your colleagues at full price, you pay just $100.

When Susannah Breslin offered $100 to the best pitch from an under-25 female journalist, the winner, Lauren Rae Orsini, got more than a crisp Benjamin.

She got a job, and in fact the experience changed her life, she said.

Luckily, Breslin has another $100 to throw around (as far as life-changers go, that’s pretty cheap) so she’s doing the same thing, except for a young male journalist.

The rules are essentially the same as the first go-round (except for the gender switch, of course). You must be between 18 and 25, male, and have the best pitch.

The deadline is 5pm EST tomorrow, July 14. The writer will receive $100 when his story goes live and may even get a job out of it. (Who knows?)

Tomorrow is the final day to get the early bird discount ($100 off) for our online conference and workshop, Startup Boot Camp, running July 12- August 30.

The program features Alexa Andrzejewski (Foodspotting), John Tayman (Byliner.com), Sree Sreenivasan (Columbia School of Journalism) and mediabistro’s own Laurel Touby as well as weekly hands-on projects with feedback from real people.