A heads up to all in the Bay Area this Friday. Indy Arts and Media,along with the Society for Professional Journalists is hosting the 2nd annual Innovations in Journalism Symposium at University of San Francisco. The all day event is a chance for journalists, techies and media professionals to get together, commiserate on the changing industry and hear from the industry innovators that are changing the way we think about media, collaboration and communication.

Confirmed participants include Susan Mernit of the Public Media Collaborative, Gilbert Bailón of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, New America Media’s Sandy Close, Kachingle.com founder Cynthia Typaldos, David Cohn of Spot.Us, KCBS News Radio program director Ed Cavagnaro, Eve Batey of SFAppeal.com.

If you’re on organization interested in ways to use social media to interact with your community then you want to check out the workshop we’re co-presenting at 2:30 “How can social media help your organization build community and awareness?” We’ll be talking about finding new ways to connect with the people you need to be talking to, whether you’re a reported looking for sources, a community organization beginning a fund raising campaign or a business hoping to interact with clients, there’ll be lots of useful information and tips.

And of course, if you can’t make the training, we’re available for one on one and group trainings, just let us know.

For the full schedule go here.

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