Take a sneak peek at CBI’s Kansas City conference session topics

Last Updated on August 27, 2008 by askcbiorg

CBI is offering more than 80 educational sessions at the National College Media Convention in Kansas City. Want a taste? Check out some of these top titles:

Using Social Networking Sites to Promote Student Video News

Excuses… A Humorous Look at Excuses Give By Student Deejays for Not Showing Up For a Shift And What to Do About It

Don’t Take “No” for an Answer!

How to get newsmakers to say “yes” to the interview and answer every question you ask.

Re-imaging your college radio station: What to do when your old station name and slogan have been around too long

• Radio Show & Tell: On-air talent and producers play their work, and other attendees and the moderator constructively critique it.
• Practical Operations Concerns About HD Radio
• HD Radio Engineering
• Radio Broadcast Automation – Staying On the Air When No One’s There!
• Play Ball! Remote Broadcast Solutions for Sports Games & other Live Events
• Getting in the Game: Learn how to land your first sports gig and how to move up from there.
• Why ISDN + NPR Equals Free Money!
• Using Ratings in the Classroom: How Arbitron and Nielsen numbers are used, or can be used, in the classroom.
• Information Sharing Among Station Management and Directors
• Training Student Staff at your college radio station
• Video Production and Community Service
• Concerts 201: Festival Planning
• CBI Web Site Student Round Table
• Radio and Webcasting Music Licensing
• Ask the Radio Engineer
• Station Repair Clinic
• Play-by-Play Basics
• Sports Talk
• How to Conduct a Proper Contest
• Business Law for Broadcasters
• Ask the Lawyer
• Political Broadcasting
• Introduction to Underwriting Sales
• Getting More out of Your Underwriting Program
• Underwriting Copy Game
• Organizing a Radio Station Constitution
• Top 10 Video Tips
• What the Pros Look for in Your Demo Tape
• Staff Management and Structure
• Radio Roundtable: Sports
• Radio Roundtable: Programming
• Radio Roundtable: Music
• Radio Roundtable: Production
• Radio Roundtable: News
• Radio Rountable: Underwriting
• TV Roundtable: Programming
• TV Roundtable: Management
• Paper or Plastic? Student Portfolios
• Working With the Administration
• Working with Non-Student Volunteers
• Swag Swap
• Radio Roundtable: Management
• 60 Radio Promotion Ideas in 60 Minutes!
• Landing Your First Job in Production
• Catch ’em and keep ’em: Radio recruiting and retention
• Indecency and Obscenity… An Update and Review of FCC Regulations
• Radio Hour Philosophy… Building the Programming Clock
• Videography – How the “Shooters” Shoot
• Underwriting Sales
• Getting Your Message Out
• Radio Roundtable: Traffic
• Beyond the Tower: College Radio Business Models and Web 2.0.
• How We Launched Our Webstream Radio Station
• Demo Tape Critiques
• Radio at kbps: Learn the basics of how to set up your own Web streams
• Low power and other unlicensed alternatives for radio
• Starting (or buying) a new campus station
• Community Outreach, Education and Interaction
• Writing Better Broadcast News
• NPR Next Generation Radio Journalism Project- Listening Session
• NPR… Seeking Student Leaders
• Creating Great Promos Even if You’re Not Creative
• Convergence: It’s not a destination—it’s a journey.
• High Definition TV Conversion & Incremental Conversion
• Shot Composition for Video
• Paying it Forward: How to Maximize Your Internship
• Ask the TV Engineer
• Surveying College Radio
• Major Changes in EAS
• What’s the New What of Getting Your News Online?
• CBI Cybercast!
• Getting the News
• And You Want Me to Write What?
• What’s the New What of Getting Your News Online?
• Getting the News

Photo credit: Kansas City Convention and Visitors Bureau.