NISM Blog
8 Essential Visualization Tools For Social Media Marketers
As a social media marketer, communication is your stock-in-trade. From weaving just the right words to make an irresistible post to crafting the perfect images that your audience can’t turn away from, capturing your audience’s attention is the mission. But...
Conference Content: How to Bring Your Best!
Not dissimilar to a big game, vacation, or even Christmas, the time leading up to a conference can be filled with anxiety (the good kind hopefully) and excitement! Say sponsoring a session, presenting, or setting up shop behind a booth just isn’t your thing. Hey...
How to Use Hashtags on LinkedIn to Grow Your Brand
While hashtag usage has long been encouraged on Twitter and Instagram as a way for users to engage with their networks, LinkedIn only started allowing clickable hashtags in 2016. The initial key is to identify your specialty and conduct research on the hashtags that...
A Journalist’s Approach to Instagram
A sports writer gets to a local hockey arena a couple hours early, leaving plenty of time to set up in a spot with his or her laptop and to prepare for the game. With the stillness of the arena except for maybe a few workers, the reporter snaps a photo from the top of...
Improve your LinkedIn’s Curb Appeal
As a college student nearing graduation, the prominence of LinkedIn’s connection opportunities have not been lost on me. Like everyone else, I know that a solid LinkedIn profile is more important than ever to job seekers and hiring managers. But with more than half a...
Relationship Building 101
If you've been reading my previous blog entries or we've met in person, you know that I am a self-described "people person." I love meeting new people and learning more about who they are and why they do what they do. Their story matters to me. This is a gift I've...
Math 2.0 Day: Celebrating Math and Innovation on July 8th
July 8th is Math 2.0 Day – and it’s our opportunity to recognize that the world today runs on math and numbers! Social media professionals will be the first to tell you that without math, it would be incredibly difficult to have meaningful conversations with our...
3 Keys to Employee Engagement
Whether your organization has ten employees or 10,000 employees, chances are you've heard of employee engagement or have thought about ways to help get your own employees more engaged. Engagement can take different forms-- monthly employee lunch outings, utilizing...
NISM Summer Sessions: Free CEUs June through August
Our certified social media strategists have found creative ways over the years to earn their 20 CEUs required for recertification. And while we provide a list of pre-approved CEUs offered by other organizations, we also wanted to provide our community with an...