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Making In-the-Moment Content STICK
Summertime, upcoming events, and an increase in outings mean one thing: more in-the-moment content for your social media pages! Content is everywhere so take advantage of these longer days, brighter colors, and warmer weather; this is what your audience wants to see!...
5 Musts When Creating a Content Strategy
Image source: Unsplash If you are a business or organization, you likely have one of these goals: Sell products Promote services Gain subscribers Acquire volunteers Collect donations Hire staff How do you sell yourself to your target audience to reach these...
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...
MEET AND GREET: Melissa Mathews
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...
Can you do too many CEUs?
Talking in the SMS community this month about the work everyone’s doing over the summer brought an interesting question to light. Can you do too many CEUs? Our focus has been on the power of learning and how important it is to stay up-to-date in our industry. But with...
Embrace User Generated Content and Hit the Sweet Spot Between the Customer and the Brand
Content marketing has matured and I’ve committed to learning more about it this summer. We’ve passed the phase of sharing brand generated content and developed to a model that is focused on data and analytics. As the backbone of a digital strategy, data puts the...
I Will Survive – A Song, Compliance, Governance and How the European Union Ruined my Summer – or not?
I am sure if I were to hum the tune of “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor you would all be able to join in. Oh come on, let’s try it just for the fun of it….See, you can do it! As I was riding in my car home from work the other day the song was playing on the radio....
Family Picnics, Sun, and Learning?
Oh, sweet summer. Where I live in Minnesota, it’s finally arrived after a miserably long snow-filled winter. All I want to do is get outside and soak up the sun….and learn. Summer is a pretty ideal time to immerse yourself in a new learning opportunity. If that feels...
LIFE-LONG LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE
One of the things I find so fascinating about the Social Media Marketing space is that it demands that I keep on learning. There is always a new feature to test, another conference to book or another online course to invest in. Countless opportunities I get to learn,...