Learning how to get better on Twitter, with Mark Luckie

The National Press Club Journalism Institute welcomes back Mark Luckie for a new round of Twitter classes scheduled for mid-March. Both sessions will be held from 9:30-11:00 a.m. in the Conference Rooms. Each class is $5 for NPC members and $10 for non-members.

So you've signed up for a Twitter account... now what? In the Twitter 101 session on March 16, you'll learn the basics of Twitter -- everything from retweets to hashtags to Twitter chats. Get ready to have your Twitter questions answered and to grow your followers. Click here to register for Twitter 101.

For the intermediate users already active on Twitter, learn the easy to adopt strategies that can boost your followers and engagement at the March 17 Twitter 201 session. Topics to be covered included the optimum ways to tweet when news breaks, reaching communities you're covering and how to trend on Twitter. Click here to register for Twitter 201.

Both sessions will be taught by Mark Luckie (@marksluckie), Creative Content Manager for Journalism & News at Twitter.

Mark Luckie is a multi-platform journalist and editor, founder of the digital journalism blog 10,000 Words, and author of The Digital Journalist's Handbook, a guide to the tools necessary to thrive in the digital newsroom. Luckie has produced multimedia and interactive stories for the Center for Investigative Reporting, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The Contra Costa Times, and is a former crime and justice reporter for The Daytona Beach News-Journal.