<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ab<font color="#000000">out the series:<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Scientific American and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating
Science at Stony Brook University have launched a free, 5-episode, online
series aimed at helping scientists and engineers write blogs and op-eds for
magazines, newspapers and other news outlets.<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Webinar titles/dates/times: <span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Friday, October 13, 2017</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4:30 - 5:30 p.m. ET</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Connecting With Your Audience: 
Featuring Alan Alda & Mariette DiChristina</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">DETAILS @: </font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.aldacenter.org/aklc/build-skills/webinars/audience">https://www.aldacenter.org/aklc/build-skills/webinars/audience</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Wednesday, October 25, 2017</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3:30 to 4:30 ET</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Finding Your Story, Making It
Personal:  Featuring Ben Lillie</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thursday, November 9, 2017</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3:30 - 4:30 p.m. ET</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pivoting Off the News, Writing about
Controversy: Featuring Claudia Dreifus & Matthew Nisbet</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Week of November 27, 2017 (TBA) - Time
TBA</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Blogging for Scientific
American:  Lessons From Experience</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Week of December 11, 2017 (TBA) - Time
TBA</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Driving Traffic and Visibility</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Duration: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> hour each<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">No pre-registration required.<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">This first special live-streamed event
will air on Friday, October 13, 2017 at 4:30pm ET, and can be watched via live
stream on Facebook (@Scientific American).<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Main Webinar Series Page:<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.aldacenter.org/aklc/build-skills/online-courses/aldablogging2017?utm_source=Scientific+American+Blogging+Kickoff+10132017&utm_campaign=Scientific+American+Blogging+Kickoff+10132017&utm_medium=email">https://www.aldacenter.org/aklc/build-skills/online-courses/aldablogging2017?utm_source=Scientific+American+Blogging+Kickoff+10132017&utm_campaign=Scientific+American+Blogging+Kickoff+10132017&utm_medium=email</a><span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Webinar presented by </span><b><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Scientific American</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> and
the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University <br></span></b></font><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p></div></div></div></div>