NISM Blog
NISM Hosts YLAI Fellow Jean Carlos López
“The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Program is an annual exchange program for 280 young business and social entrepreneurs from 37 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, who are matched with businesses and organizations...
7 Best Social Media Image Practices for Businesses
The importance of images on social media cannot be understated. And with some of the fastest growing social media networks (Pinterest, Instagram) emphasizing images, consumers’ expectations are growing broadly. Need proof? Posts with visuals see 2X more engagement on...
A New Social Media App Just Entered the Scene: Hive
This just in: thanks to a TikTok influencer and a One Direction “psychic,” a new app has skyrocketed in popularity overnight becoming the No. 1 social media app on Apple’s App Store and the No. 2 most-downloaded app overall. The Hive Social app (official name: theHIVE...
NISM Selected to Speak at Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) Conference
Minneapolis, MN – October 17 – The National Institute for Social Media (NISM), a vendor-neutral industry certification agency focused on the discipline of social media, has been selected by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) to speak alongside its...
Companies Maximizing Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
Social media is more than just LOLCats and posts about political cartoons. It's more than who's having a baby and who just got new shoes. It's not just pictures of family and pets. It's a vital tool for business to promote and grow their brands by engaging directly...
What Are Some Good Practices In Customer Service In This Social Media-Obsessed World?
We’ve all heard the adage, the customer is always right. No matter what industry you’re involved with, if you have customers, you need to have a way to make them happy at all times. This is due in part to the amount of power a customer has these days....
5 Important Reasons Why Professionals Should Invest More Time In Their Online Presence
It's not easy being a high profile professional in the age of social media and rating apps. Let's be honest; after a fifty-hour work week (if you're extremely lucky), who wants to spend time worrying about what your online presence is like? Any free time you do have...
Protect Your Twitter Account With These 4 Easy Tips
Twitter has opened up many doors allowing you to talk to people all over the world but this type of freedom comes with big responsibilities. Whether you use your twitter account for personal use or for business, it’s vital that you protect it. There are a lot of...
Social Media Movements Steamrolling Thru 2014
With the ever-changing world of social media, you need to have knowledge regarding the social media trends currently so you, the website domain marketer, can prepare your company for 2014. If you are unsure of how social media will materialize towards the close of...