Tutor: The course is delivered by Scotland-based freelance Colin Meek who has crafted the course over the past three years. He has trained journalists and researchers from: This Is Money, Readers Digest, Dow Jones, Inside Information, Legal Week, otaotr.com and University of Hertfordshire and has ran in-house training courses for Which?, Greenpeace and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Dates: The courses will be held in Glasgow on Wednesday 17th September 2008 - one full day - 9.45 am until 4.30 pm
Location: University of Strathclyde
Cost: £200.00 per person, £100 NUJ members.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in sharpening internet research skills.
Content: Work smarter not harder .... The course will cover key techniques for:
- using search engines and meta search tools more effectively;
- precision surfing using advanced operators;
- finding people and finding out about people online;
- combining search techniques;
- investigative online research (including anonymous surfing);
- accessing the invisible web;
- searching past and monitoring future web content - effectively;
- using RSS feeds; and
- sorting and storing research - efficiently.
All participants are given on-going access to updated course material through a dedicated and password-protected website.
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course takes professionals to a new level of confidence and efficiency by giving you:
- strategies for dealing with complex and detailed research;
- strategies to use when ordinary research techniques hit brick walls;
- extra tools to push your research further to deliver better and more focused material; and,
- confidence to carry out online research on sensitive issues.
Qualifications:
It is assumed that participants will have some knowledge of searching the internet.
If you are interested in attending this course please contact Angela Austin, NUJ Assistant Organiser - email angelaa@nuj.org.uk or tel: 0141 248 6648.
You can pay for this course using Paypal.