Digital Nashville

Connecting, Strengthening & Growing Digital in Nashville



Education Program Overview
Digital Nashville offers educational opportunities to advance your skills and knowledge of all things digital. 

As a digital professional you can both contribute to and benefit from your participation in our programs, as teachers in your own areas of proficiency and students in the expertise of others.


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Mentorship Program
The Well of Experience: Whether you’re starting a business, running a business, or trying to navigate or innovate within a business, we’ll match you with experienced mentors who can provide you with valuable advice and guidance.

Entrepreneur's Corner
Share Your Struggles: We provide a forum for entrepreneurs, innovators, venture capitalists and venture seekers to seek advice, exchange resources and discuss new digital business ideas and technologies.

Forums & Focus Groups
Member-to-Member Education: We offer members several tools for connecting with and learning from each other directly. Great for sharing ideas, requesting advice, asking questions, and providing answers and expertise, our forums and focus groups enable members to steer their own educational course and fully leverage the collective expertise of their digital colleagues.

Newsletter
Keeping You Current: Our monthly newsletter provides a consolidated source of digital news, education and updates delivered straight to your inbox. Each issue includes original content authored by hand-picked local experts. You don't have to be a member to sign up.
Twitter
Edu in 140 Characters: We use our twitter account as an education (not just marketing) tool. We keep an eye out for educational news and information relevant to our membership base, and then retweet it. Twitter's a content tool - so we like to use it for real content. Follow us.

Knowledge Library
Wiki-Style Knowledge Base: Our CivicScope partnership provides members with a collaborative knowledge library by and for members where Digital Nashvillians can upload, share and demonstrate their expertise in all areas of digital media, content, products and technology.

Education Series Pricing
Evening Education Series:
  • DN++ Members: Always free (our highest membership level). Want it free? Enroll in DN++
  • DN+ Members: $10 in advance, $20 at the door. Enroll in DN+
  • Students: $10 in advance, $20 at door, free if event hosted at your school; current student ID required
  • All tickets purchased at the door: $20 per person
CEO Roundtable Series:
 Workshop Series:
  • Workshop pricing varies by event.  Past member discounts:
  • DN++: Save up to $300
  • DN+: Save up to $150
 Video Series:
Conferences:
  • Conference pricing is event-by-event. Past member discounts:
  • Free tickets to Soundcrawl
  • $150 off tickets to TN NEXT Conference
  • $150 off tickets to the PHP Community Conference
  • 50% off tickets to Nashville Startup Weekend
  • $50 off tickets to Social Media & SEO Boot Camp
  • $51 off tickets to the Billboard CMA Country Music Summit
  • 40% off tickets to MobileX
  • $90 off tickets to Social Fresh Nashville
  • $75 off tickets to the Enterprise LAMP Summit
  • $50 off tickets to Next Big Nashville

Education Series

WELCOME TO DIGITAL NASHVILLE'S EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Learn about the latest technology and trends to power your business and career.

All proceeds benefit Digital Nashville fundraising in support of DN's educational programs.

Workshop Series – Digital's Nitty Gritty

Digital Nashville's workshop series features deep dive (and in some cases multi-day) hands-on training clinics (aka 'bootcamps') covering some of digital’s toughest and most important topics.  Taught by experts in each field, workshop curriculum covers each topic in depth, and sessions are offered at multiple difficulty levels from beginner to advanced.  This series is perfect for those looking for true training in these areas of digital.  Have ideas for future topics or curriculum?  Let us know.

Upcoming Workshop

May 17, 2012: Social Media & SEO Bootcamp taught by Bill Seaver and Jeremy Scott
 Agenda - Morning Session (9am-noon): Social Media & SEO for Beginners and Intermediates
  • Starting Social Media With The Right Mindset
    • Social media isn't new anymore but it's still new for some people. Whether you're just getting started or have been dabbling in the social media sandbox for a while and are looking to start seeing some real progress, this session will help you understand the full impact of social media to your organization and how to approach it with the proper mindset so that you use all social media tools effectively. Once you get the right perspective on social media, the use and application of the technology falls more easily into place.
  • SEO Basics - Keywords & On-Site Basics Intended for Beginners, Business Owners, and Do-It-Yourselfers.
    • This session will cover the main areas of a website that webmasters can target for SEO work. From keyword research and competition analysis to content writing and relevant HTML tags, this class will present the concepts and basics of on-site SEO work in a way that is easy to comprehend for attendees of all experience levels.

Agenda - Afternoon Session (1-4pm): Social Media & SEO for Intermediate & Advanced Practitioners
  • Advanced Social Media: Better, Faster, Smarter 
    • If you have been deep into social media for at least a year you've probably heard a lot of the same discussions by now. Moving into an advanced level of social media use requires stretching your thinking about how you use it. You may be spending energy in places that aren't so necessary or perhaps there's a new way to get more out of existing technologies than you've realized. This session is for social media users who want to use their existing strategies better, accomplish goals faster, and use the technology smarter. This session will provide insights into how to do all of those things.
  • Advanced SEO - Beyond The Page
    • Intended for more advanced users, agency employees, and SEO professionals, this session will focus on the latest tactics and theories in the world of SEO. From the latest major algorithm changes from Google to the trending importance of social signals and video SEO, this discussion-based class will attempt to identify and prioritize some of the best off-site methods for boosting the search presence of a website or company.

Roundtable Series – Dine with Nashville's Business Leaders

Digital Nashville's CEO Roundtable Series brings key players from Nashville's diverse business community together with DN members for intimate, small-group (limited to 10-12 attendees), highly conversational breakfast and lunch sessions.  You'll have the opportunity to share a meal and lively discussion with these prominent Nashville business leaders, who will share their backgrounds, insights, experiences, advice and answers to just about any interesting questions you may have.  Each session is about an hour and a half.  Lunch or breakfast and beverages are provided and included with your registration.
Space Is Limited 

Past Roundtables

Evening Education Series – Staying Current in All Things Digital

Digital Nashville's monthly evening education series meets on weeknights (usually on Wednesdays) and covers all sorts of interesting topics in digital.  Featuring a new speaker with each session, the speakers selected are experts and practitioners in their fields.  Example topics: analytics, design/UX, digital marketing, mobile, programming & development, entrepreneurship, digital music, social media, SEO/SEM, and digital in the music business.  Have an idea for a topic or speaker?  Let us know.

Past Sessions

Video Series – Our Thought Leaders, Your Schedule

Digital Nashville's Thought Leader Interviews series presents video interviews of key digital players in Nashville and their perspectives on some of today’s most business-critical digital topics.  Created to complement our live educational events, the series brings expert, real-world experience right to your computer.  All of the interview videos are complimentary for members.  We hope you enjoy another benefit of membership.
[videos produced by Gamma Blast]

  • Dave Delaney, Social Media Coordinator – Griffin Technology
- Who's The Voice of Your Company's Twitter Feed? [1:16] – How should your Twitter tweet? Find the tone and voice of your company’s Twitter feed.
- What's the Next Big Thing? [1:33] – It’s shiny, it’s new. Delaney discusses the latest digital trends.
- Social Media, What's It Worth? [2:12] – The age-old question … how do you measure social media?
- Why New graduates Should Blog [1:09] – Ways new graduates can make themselves even more marketable.
- Death and Blogging [0:52] – Does your blog live on after you die? On this, we ponder.
- Use Social Media to Connect in the Flesh [2:40] – Bring out your customers by using social media.

 - Not Just For The Young [3:36] – Think you need a young audience for a social media campaign?  Think again.
- Twitter’s Beginning [2:26] – Hammock was there when Twitter was just a baby.
- Using Twitter to Enhance Live Conversations [3:25] – Use Twitter to get people more engaged in your event.

  • Ashley Heron, Senior Manager of Marketing – Lyric Street Records
- Integrated Marketing [2:01] – Connect social media to your traditional advertising efforts.
- Marketing Through the Heavy User [1:41] – Make the heavy users of your product your de facto marketing department.
- Using Mobile to Go Direct to the Consumer [2:48] – Hear this case study of how to connect your brand to customers using mobile.

Conferences – Partnering for Impact

Digital Nashville is proud to work collaboratively with sister organizations and sponsors to support (plan, market or provide speakers for) educational conferences throughout the year.

Upcoming Conferences

Past Conferences Supported


Education Series Sponsors

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