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<div>To: Communications Workshop list, Information Group, Editors
Group</div>
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<div>Dear colleagues,<br>
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<div>The MIT Publishing Services Bureau will sponsor an online/audio
seminar called:</div>
<div>Four Technologies That Will Transform PR:</div>
<div>The Strategic Use of Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Podcasts</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>The seminar is being offered by CASE, the Council for Advancement
and Support of Education. Attendees will be able to listen to the
presenter, ask questions, and interact with participants at other
colleges and universities.</div>
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<div>Please join us:</div>
<div>Thursday, October 27, 2005</div>
<div>2-4:00 p.m.</div>
<div>Location to be provided with confirmation; seating is limited to
35 attendees.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>RSVP</b> by October 25 to Quentin Alexander, <a
href="mailto:qla@mit.edu">qla@mit.edu</a>.</div>
<div>Include your name, department, email and telephone number. We
will send a confirming email back to you.<br>
<br>
We look forward to seeing you at the seminar.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
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<div>Monica Lee</div>
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<div><b>Seminar description:</b></div>
<div>The new technologies of the "Social Web" are enabling
communications and marketing professionals to engage with key
constituencies as never before. Four senior PR practitioners -- Dan
Forbush, president of ProfNet; Joseph Hice, Jr., associate vice
president of marketing and public relations at the University of
Florida; David Jarmul, associate vice president of news and
communications at Duke University; and Charlie Melichar, vice
president of PR & communications at Colgate University -- discuss
new-media strategies as they apply to blogs, wikis, RSS, and
podcasts.</div>
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<div>Find out why you should make these new community-building tools
an integral part of your communications program and learn how to
implement them.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Attendees will:</div>
<div>- Review the strategic implications of "Social Web"
technologies.</div>
<div>- Learn how blogs, wikis, RSS, and podcasts function and how to
get started in them.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Find out how your colleagues in academic communications are
putting these new tools to work.</div>
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<div>Monica Lee<br>
Director, Publishing Services Bureau<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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Office<x-tab>
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http://web.mit.edu/psb/<br>
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