Professional Development Day 2012

DCSWA 2012 Professional
Development Day
 
Saturday, April 21
 
AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.

8:30 – 9 Registration & breakfast

9 – 10:15 Morning Plenary: Soren Wheeler, senior producer of Radiolab, on “Science as Entertainment”

10:15 – 10:30 Newsbrief Awards

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – Noon Morning Breakout sessions

  • A. Reaching Your Audience with Social Media, with Danielle Brigida, social media manager for the National Wildlife Federation
  • B. A Book Agent’s View of a Changing Landscape, with Howard Yoon of the Ross Yoon Agency
  • C. Photography for Writers with Monica Corcoran of National Geographic Magazine online

Noon – 1:00 Lunch (if you have dietary restrictions, send a note to president@dcswa.org)

1 – 2:15 Afternoon Breakout sessions 1

  • A. Social Media for Writers — How’s your return on investment? With Lisa King of IDG Interactive, Lauren Modeen of GovLoop and GovDelivery, and Emma Kolstad Antunes of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • B. Pitch Slam with editors from Science, National Wildlife Magazine, AAARP The Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Science Insider Blog

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:45 Afternoon Breakout Sessions 2

  • A. How to Train Scientists to Speak to the Media with John Verrico of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate
  • B. Create Active Web Content with Merry Bruns of ScienceSites Communications

3:45 – 4 Break

4 – 5 Afternoon Plenary: “Science and Public Outreach” with Monica Smith, exhibition program manager for the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.

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