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3 Cyber Security “Fakes” to Watch Out for on Your Social Media
Image Source: Unsplash Social media provides excellent platforms for many of us to promote products and services and reach a much bigger, greater market around the world! Plus, we’re human and we are social creatures by nature (yes, even introverts crave people...
Don’t Pull the Social Media Wool Over the Eyes of Customers – Business Perception vs. Business Reality
Image Source: Unsplash Building your brand on social media is an essential step for marketing your business. However, it's important to do so with care. While it’s great to have fun with your brand personality and show off your brand in a positive light, it’s easy to...
An Honest Conversation with Four Social Media Strategists
Back in February, we hosted a live webinar panel with four certified Social Media Strategists. The conversation was led by Amy Jauman, SMS, and featured Katy Spencer Johnson, SMS, Amanda Andresen, SMS, and Ashley Hunter, SMS. The discussion gave us insights into how...
Skol Marketing Meet and Greet
We’ve started introducing you to some of our individual Social Media Strategist professionals here at NISM, but we also would like to introduce you to an agency who chose to certify its social media team members. The social media team at Skol Marketing became the...
3 Meaningful Ways to Build Community Online
There are several different definitions of the word “community.” One definition of the word is “a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.” If you think about it, the social media realm sounds an awful lot like...
Skol Marketing is the First Agency in Minnesota to be Certified by the National Institute for Social Media
When asked how Social Media Strategist certification through the National Institute for Social Media has helped his social media team, Ben Theis stated, “I think it really has done what I wanted it to do, and helps us stand out from the competition and give us that...
Changes to Continuing Education Credits
As we certified and then re-certified more and more social media professionals, we realized we needed to make a few updates to our social media strategist recertification process. As an organization committed to the training and certification of social media...
Forrest Flinn Meet and Greet
MEET AND GREET: Forrest Flinn 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...
Fourge Meet and Greet
Recently the social media team members at Fourge Social became the first agency in Iowa to achieve SMS certification through the National Institute for Social Media. While there are many reasons for an agency to obtain certification and training for their team...