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Ragan Communications, Inc., presents training for employee communicators . . .

Motivate employees, score media coverage, connect with customers: Social media tools you can use right now

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 • 3-4:30 p.m. EST

$329 • Ragan select price: $299

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Join social media guru Shel Holtz. Find out which social media tools can take your company’s communications to the next level. Boost your media coverage! Connect with your customers! Increase productivity!

About the Webinar

Your Webinar instructor: Mr. Shel Holtz, Principal of Holtz Communication + Technology

Social Media is everywhere. If you still aren’t using these essential tools in your company it is high time you start. Learn which tools you need and how to use them! Mesh these new tools into complete communication initiatives. Produce bottom-line, business-focused results immediately.

Learn how to:

  • Use new social media tools to improve your blogger relations
  • Build community and heighten credibility for your organization—from producing executive blogs to creating employee social networks
  • Be a star in the C suite. Get past all barriers that exist in your organization—increase engagement through the use of new externally hosted tools.
  • Improve productivity among your employees: review each of the tool’s benefits and shortcomings
  • Determine where you can best invest your time and resources: Hear case studies from companies who have put these tools to use
  • Make accurate strategic decisions that will always provide real value to your organization: Never have just another “nice idea” again!

This overview of the best tools available in social media will allow you to get started using them right away! You will see the results immediately. Such tools include...

  • Microblogging tools for internal and external communications: find real conversations about your organizations
  • Community-building resources: set up a business-related social network group
  • Blogging applications: implement an employee blogging program to establish trusted points of contact
  • Collaboration tools: create a strategy for using social media to address a real situation at your company

Join Ragan Communications and social media expert Shel Holtz for this important event that will show the latest developments and tools that will change how your organization communicates. Get the insight you need to succeed!

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About your Speaker

Shel Holtz is the co-author of "Tactical Transparency," "How to Do Everything with Podcasting," "Blogging for Business" and three other books. As principal of Holtz Communication + Technology, he has provided communication counsel to organizations including PepsiCo, Symantec, The Mayo Clinic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, SunLife, Kaiser Permanente, Cargill, and Textron. He is a regular speaker at communication conferences including many Ragan conferences.

Four more reasons to register:


There's no travel involved. Ragan's Webinars are a hassle-free alternative for getting the training you need.

One word: Affordable. At a price that reflects your stretched training dollars, the Webinars provide a cost-effective solution.

Your skill set wins. With each Webinar, you'll receive practical, ready-to-use communication lessons direct from the front lines.

Convenient training for large groups. Our Webinars are a great way to train an unlimited number of employees—for one low price.


How to register:

Unlike other traditional training options, Ragan Communications offers you the utmost flexibility. Bring your entire team to the table and learn during a live presentation for just $329. Can’t make the date and time, but want to experience the Webinar? We’ve got a CD option for you that includes PowerPoint presentations, handouts and question and answer sessions for just $329. OR, sign up for both for just $30 more (there’s nothing like building a library of training CDs for current and future employees).

So choose the option that’s best for you and your team:

Note: Because the multimedia CD is a recording of the live event, the CD is delivered approximately 3-5 weeks after the event date.

Online registration for the live Webinar is now closed. To register by phone, please call 312.960.4140 or 800.493.4867.

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Cancellation Policy: Cancellations will be accepted through end of business on Friday, November 14, 2008. Registrants who cancel within that time will receive a refund. Cancellations received after that day will not be refunded.

Note: Your fee includes toll-free access (one dial-in per registration). If you are calling from outside North America, you will need to call a different phone number and will incur long distance charges.

To register by phone, call 800.493.4867 or 312.960.4250.

* Basic/Advanced Designations
To make it even easier to decide which Webinar will suit you and your team, Ragan’s designated its Webinars as “Basic” for topics that cover a wider range of fundamental information and “Advanced” for topics that delve deep into more advanced subject matter.


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