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Overcome Your Public Speaking Fear

Zenspeak - Public Speaking Center

*** This is an online course. Zoom link will be sent to you upon enrollment. Overcome public speaking fear with gradual exposure, in a supportive environment. Based out of New York City for 30 years, we are now offering these classes online to an international audience. Once the 10 session package is purchased, the student may use their sessions however they choose. The course is ongoing, so each session has participants at all levels. We use...

Social Media Bootcamp

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

This bootcamp introduces participants to the current social media landscape and explores how it can be used for maximum results (for brands as well as agencies). Participants will leave with a detailed understanding of both the current social media landscape and how to evaluate which tools or social platforms are the best fit for their organization's strategic goals. Topics to be covered will include: an overview of social media platforms, current...

The Art of Positive Conversation

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Join legendary talk show host Larry King in conversation with actor Kevin Bacon and Positive Psychology Professor Dr. James Pawelski as they discuss the need for people to connect to each other authentically during these uncertain times. They’ll explore the role the arts, media, conversation, and culture can play in our mental health and well being. This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details...

Zero to Ecommerce in 18 hours

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

5-Session Level 1 Storytelling Workshop

The Story Studio @ Zoom online platform, New York, NY

This 5-session Level 1 storytelling workshop provides students with an encouraging, constructive environment in which to practice storytelling each week and receive feedback from their instructor and peers. Exercises in class focus on classic story structuring, building suspense, eliciting emotion, recreating drama, digging deeper into a story’s meaning, and using your voice and body to add levels to your listeners’ experience, so that your...

Facebook + Instagram Advertising

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Facebook is a juggernaut with over 2.41 billion monthly active users in 2019. In this workshop, you will get insights and practical lessons from the field and you’ll learn how to make the most of Facebook advertising. We’ll focus on highly specific hacks that will help you cut through the noise and acquire new users to grow your business.  From the anatomy of a high-converting ad to optimization tips to suggested resources, you’ll come...

2-Day Social Media Bootcamp

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Whether you have experience in social media or are looking to get started for the first time, this workshop will put you on the fast track to honing your social media skills. In this bootcamp, students will be introduced to the current social media landscape and explore how it can be used for maximum results for brands. Are you ready to learn the tricks, tips and techniques businesses are using to build brands and sell more on social? Topics to...

2-Day Storytelling for Business Workshop

The Story Studio

In this 2-day workshop, participants apply the principles of compelling storytelling to communicate more effectively on the job. Brief lectures and hands-on exercises focus on bringing an emotionally resonant arc to brand biographies, personal anecdotes for professional networking, and vision-into-action stories. Participants will get a chance to share and receive feedback on one short story of their choosing. The instructor confers with each...

Visual Storytelling: Seeing The World In a New Way

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

This workshop is about visual storytelling and how we can make powerful new kinds of images to tell personal stories or document human issues. The biggest challenge today for visual storytellers is how to make work that will affect our audiences who are being bombarded by billions of images. Our photographic approach or style along with our editing and sequencing will determine our work’s success, whether it be published, exhibited, or presented...

Fearless Presentations Virtual Public Speaking Course

Fearless Presentations @ Virtual Classroom

This course will help you to become fearless at your next big in-person or virtual meeting! This virtual course is exactly like our in-person course, but you can join from the comfort of your own home. If you happen to miss a module, you are welcome to make-up the session in a future series. You also have the option to retake any (or all) modules as many times as you like for a full year. This is the absolute best way to get practice and coaching...

Public Speaking Bootcamp

General Assembly

Utilize skills and tactics by entertainers such as improvisers and actors to elevate your public speaking performance, forget the fear, and learn to love the spotlight! Public speaking is the most common #1 phobia in today's society, and at the same time, our abilities to strongly represent ourselves are becoming more and more of a priority. Whether we are job interviewing, pitching our startup, actively networking, or needing to lead a presentation...

Brand Storytelling: Powerful Story That Inspires

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Brand Storytelling: Creating A Powerful Story That Inspires “Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but the stories you tell.” - Seth Godin Traditional marketing is dead. Consumers today are highly skeptical of corporate-style disruption advertising. In the age of Instagram and direct-to-consumer commerce, you build a brand by building a following first. But how do you rise above the noise to attract these passionate fans? Start...

Instagram for Entrepreneurs

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Learn how to craft a winning Instagram strategy that connects & engages your audience, grows your followers and turns them into loyal customers. You'll walk away with the best Instagram practices that will allow you to define a more robust social message that resonates well with your brand. Who is this workshop for? Anyone who either manages or is interested in managing an Instagram Business account. This workshop is not appropriate for total...

Paid Social for the Win: FB + Instagram Advertising

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Facebook is a juggernaut with over 2.27 billion monthly active users and Instagram now has over 1 billion monthly active users. In this workshop you will get insights and practical lessons from the field, you’ll learn how to make the most of the Facebook advertising ecosystem (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, Audience Network) in this fast-paced, hands on class. We’ll focus on highly specific hacks that will help you cut through the...

Getting Started With Wordpress

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

WordPress is the premier content management system for those seeking an easy, user-friendly way to set up and maintain a website. In this class, you’ll walk through the basics of getting your site live quickly and discover various free templates as well as premium resources that require little to no coding skills and will have your site looking polished and professional. Once your site has gone live, you’ll learn how to update and maintain it...

SMART Board Training for Business/Enterprise

NetCom Learning @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY

You'll learn how to use SMART Meeting Pro to increase the effectiveness of your meetings. You'll receive customized training designed to provide you with the knowledge, information and skills specific to your use of SMART Meeting Pro. You'll become comfortable using SMART Meeting Pro with many opportunities for hands-on practice. You'll practice completing tasks that are relevant to your role, and learn how to incorporate SMART Meeting Pro into your...

360° Video: Intro to Shooting and Stitching

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

This all-day, hands-on workshop teaches the basics of 360° video production and post-production. Participants will practice shooting, stitching and editing 360° video, as well as discuss immersive storytelling techniques, ethics and distribution platforms (detailed schedule below).   Specifically designed for journalists and storytellers, this workshop helps newsrooms and freelancers get started in VR journalism.   Students...

Intro to Podcasting

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Have you been dreaming of starting your own podcast, but don’t have the slightest idea where to start? Have you opened GarageBand and been terrified by how many digital knobs there were? Have you listened to WTF and wondered “could that be me??” Luckily, these days it doesn’t cost much or even take all that much effort to get your show online where anyone can listen AND have it sound professional. Intro to Podcasting will cover: Coming...

Blogging for Business

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Blogging provides another platform not just to sell your product and/or create brand awareness but to establish yourself as an informative source in your field.  This course covers the importance of a good title, captivating first and last sentences, and the necessity of proper grammar and interesting writing. The course includes practicing good writing skills and developing a knack for editing. Students will learn an overview of proper writing,...

Proust: Swann’s Way

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

In this course, we will work our way carefully through Swann’s Way, recovering Proust from the clichés and caricatures in order to discover why he continues to be important today. “Well – what remains to be written after that?” wrote Virginia Woolf of Marcel Proust in a 1922 letter. A century after the publication of Swann’s Way, the first volume of the monumental novel, In Search of Lost Time, Proust continues to speak to us as compellingly...