Courses

Knight Digital Media Center presented a day-long workshop for foundation communications professionals as part of the CommA Days conference in New Orleans. Participants learned about strategies in communication and engagement on digital, mobile and social platforms.

Learn about a proven process for transforming traditional, print-focused newsrooms into multiplatform news providers.

Workshop focuses on understanding key social platforms in the growing digital media environment.

The history, inner-workings, and case studies of spatial analysis.

The Knight Digital Media Center, in partnership with Grantmakers of Oregon and Southeast Washington, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Oregon Community Foundation, presents a unique two-day workshop exploring how community foundations can better engage the public around issues they care about by using new digital tools and best practices.

Helping the local community tell its stories is not without its challenges and rewards – some unexpected and some delightful. Learn how one community foundation has tapped into citizen reporting to engage local residents. 

Organizations can build effective impact measurement when it becomes part of the story planning process. 

The Knight Digital Media Center and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Community Foundation of New Jersey present a unique two-day workshop exploring how community foundations can better engage the public around issues they care about by using new digital tools and best practices.

Google Analytics. Facebook Insights. Klout scores. There are lots of analytics available to community publishers. But it's not easy to figure out which ones are meaningful. This webinar will help you identify metrics that you can use to develop strategies to build your audience.

The four-day workshop was designed for winners of the Knight Community Information Challenge to help them plan and launch their projects.

Raising visibility for your project teaches you how to increase community awareness and engagement for your online news or information project.

The Knight Digital Media Center and The Denver Foundation with The Piton Foundation and the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County presented a unique two-day workshop exploring how community foundations can better engage the public around issues they care about by using new digital tools and best practices.

About the Seminar:  Twenty top editors and online news leaders from ten different metro newspapers across the country attended this workshop, along with a host of experts to guide the workshop discussions.

About the Seminar:  The Knight Digital Media Center, in partnership with National Public Radio, hosted a training workshop for 24 newsroom leaders representing 12 of National Public Radio’s member stations.

The Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg, The McCormick Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust joined together to bring nationally-recognized mobile experts Amy Gahran and Will Sullivan to town for a one-day, hands-on workshop.

This two-day session was designed for foundation leaders – Presidents/CEOs, vice presidents, program and communications specialists – and leaders of other mission-driven organizations. The purpose was two-fold: Help foundations advance digital strategies that are important to them and introduce them to innovative work in news and information for civic engagement.

Improve your ability to use and understand web metrics, including Google Analytics and Facebook Insights with this free hands-on webinar.

Raising visibility for your project teaches you how to increase community awareness and engagement for your online news or information project.

This course will introduce foundations and other mission-driven organizations to trends in mobile media usage and how they can use mobile to engage and inform their communities. Participants will get started planning and implementing mobile projects.

The presentation describes how community information creates significant benefits from collective action.

Learn the basics of working with citizen reporters.

This on-demand webinar covers how to define an audience and the critical tools needed to build information and news projects.

This course will break down the essentials of being effective on Twitter even when you have limited time and resources.

Learn how foundations are forming partnerships to develop effective ways to foster informed and engaged communities.