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Make Actionable Audits Work For You
Data-driven marketing, strategy, and social media; more than just buzzwords in thought leader Twitter threads. Strategy driven by accurate and actionable data analysis can help marketers, strategists, organizations, and individuals highlight opportunities for stronger...
Establishing an Online Community with Facebook Groups
Image source: Unsplash Gathering as a community. A concept we have not forgotten but have missed doing in the traditional sense during the Pandemic. Even before our lives were moved to an online or hybrid world, Facebook was providing ways to cultivate meaningful...
Maintaining Your Skills Through Continuing Education
In most professions, the learning doesn’t stop when you graduate. Having a career in social media, marketing or communications is no exception. However, the amazing thing about education in our world right now is that there are so many options to choose from, both...
Always Educating
If you’re an internal or external social media professional (i.e., full- or part-time employee vs. consultant, speaker, etc.), you’re an educator as much as you are a marketer – or at least you should be. One of the core learning objectives in each of the six NISM...
8 Tips to Improve Your Video Resume
People are always asking for video tips, so today, I have a quick list for you to reference as you get started. Lighting – Don’t Be a Shadow Human When you sit in front of a bright light, use a window as an example, the light coming from behind you will make you look...
How to Choose a Social Media Management Tool
How do you manage your social tasks? Do you write and schedule content into each social platform individually? Or do you use a social media management tool to schedule your content across multiple platforms? If you have not yet used a social media management tool, I...
Instagram: It’s as Simple as ABC
Instagram is an incredible platform to get your brand out there. It allows companies to show their clientele the business from the inside. Instagram also allows your company to reinforce brand values, brand identity and voice. First of all, as a business you need to...
MEET AND GREET: Sandy Williams
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...
Connecting with the younger generation online.
"How do you do fellow kids?" With a 5 second clip of Steve Buscemi, skateboard slung over his shoulder and all, 30 Rock has unintentionally encapsulated how many brands targeting Gen Y and Z appear on social media: oblivious and out-of-place. Young consumers are a...