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Become a Google Ninja: Mastering Google Apps for Communications
Date
Dec 3, 2010, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Location
Columbia University, 614 Schermerhorn
Speakers:
Jeremy Caplan
Discover the most useful features of Google's software suite in an immersion seminar. Google's free software can help you work more efficiently, streamline business collaboration, and gather and manage information effectively.
Who is this seminar for? Google's cloud software has potential value for anyone who writes, analyzes, gathers or assesses information and ideas professionally . What does this cover? This two-hour workshop provides valuable insights into using Google's Apps, including Google Docs, Spreadsheets and Presentations. It will also cover some tips and tricks for advanced uses of GMail, Google Calendar and Google Maps.
Students will:
• Discover GMail tricks to make their inbox more useful and efficient
• Launch and team-edit a live, collaborative document, or live-blog using Google Docs
• Collaborate on and deliver Powerpoint slides online from any device with Google Presentations
• Build instant surveys and collect and analyze client and consumer data quickly using Google Forms
• Create quick charts and graphs in Google Spreadsheets that can be private, published, printed or embedded online
Jeremy Caplan is a visiting professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches interactive journalism, entrepreneurial journalism, and the craft of journalism. He is also a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Poynter Institute. A longtime Time Magazine reporter, Caplan continues to write about business and technology for Time Magazine and for the Wall Street Journal's Digits Blog. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and a Wiegers Fellow at the Columbia Business School, and now devotes his time to writing and teaching.
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Friday, Feb 1, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
This workshop lays out the roles and goals of a good business letter, and explains why yes, indeed, cover letters do still matter. The session will outline core principles of persuasive writing that will help writers pitch themselves successfully to a range of readers. Through analysis of letters that worked, attendees will come to a new understanding of strategy, and learn to distinguish elegant flourishes from cheap gimmicks. The workshop will demonstrate how applicants can use audience insight to showcase themselves to greatest effect, and offer a framework for taking calculated risks in professional prose.