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Teaching Social Media to Adults
Working as a social media professional is more than community management, strategy, and marketing. Most social media roles entail some aspect of education. This can be anything from educating leadership on the goals and fundamentals of social media to teaching team...
Making the Argument for a Social Media Council
Often at big companies, there’s an assumption that “the social media team does social media.” But this is not true. Your social media team works with groups throughout the company to ensure your social media is safe, effective, on-brand and compliant. Close...
Utilizing Social Media Marketing for Your Real Estate Business
Effective marketing has always been one of the key challenges for any real estate business. Yet, it’s undeniably an essential component to success. Fortunately, the rise of the digital landscape has provided realty businesses with some great tools here. Chief among...
6 Tips for Mastering Real-Time Marketing During Real-Time Events
Real-time marketing is about tapping into an active audience on digital communication channels, like social media, during large-scale events and trending conversations. Big-name brands have huge followings on their social channels, and those fans and followers are...
The National Institute for Social Media Offers their first Social Media Strategist (SMS) Certification Course in Tampa, Florida!
The National Institute for Social Media (NISM) is excited to announce their first Social Media Strategist (SMS) certification course being offered on-ground in Tampa, Florida! The course will be offered in a blended online/on-ground format, with dates and times that...
Questions to Include in an RFP for a Video Project
The need for video in today’s business environment is ever increasing. To help you evaluate and determine the best organization to produce your video, you may consider releasing an RFP (Request For Proposal). A video RFP should solicit the following information....
Want a Successful Social Media Campaign? – Start with Strategic Planning!
There is so much going on in the world of Social Media and everybody wants to be in on it! So I am jumping back in and looking for ways I can be a part of it. The first thing I did was go online to see what businesses are doing with social media, and they are doing...
MEET AND GREET: Theresa Fisher
INTRODUCTION Our SMS professionals serve as ambassadors for our certification program here at NISM. Not only are they knowledgeable about our curriculum, they also share our passion for social media. Best of all, their stories help shape our organization and the work...
Sharing Your Social Media Presentation
Sharing Your Social Media Presentation Have you ever been asked for your slide deck before or after you’ve given a presentation? Here are a few reasons why you may want to think twice before sharing next time. What are you afraid of? When I first started facilitating...