NISM Blog
Social Retail: COVID-19 Changed How We Buy
Consumer behavior has undoubtedly shifted to the use of digital tools in the last few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are like me, and you check out your list of purchases on your Target or Amazon app, there’s an upward trend in purchases. You’ve likely...
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...
Social Relationships will Fuel Change in 2018
What’s your goal for 2018? “Focus” is a good word to describe how I will approach my personal goals. I am an Assistant Professor teaching in Organization Development, Change, Marketing, Strategic Leadership, Management and Cultural Communications and Team...
Asking the Magic 8 Ball – Stepping into 2018
Making plans for the upcoming year, and sometimes even just for a week, can feel like an impossible task. At times it is hard to predict what lies ahead and what might happen. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a crystal ball to show us what lies ahead? Or even just a...
Professional Goals and Predictions: NISM’s December Blog Series
We received such great feedback about our #AllHallowsReadNISM series (October’s blog posts about the marketing mistakes that scare our SMS community), we decided to try another theme for December – goals and predictions. We asked our SMS community to share both! 2018...
Get Social at Work
Social technology use in the workplace often includes goals of enhancing productivity, influencing efficient collaboration and fostering a rich environment of communication. According to recent research by McKinsey & Company, 72% of all companies use social...
YouTube vs Facebook and The Future of Online Video
Video is the future of content marketing! Those have been the words of many mainstream media companies[1] and new age entrepreneurs[2] for the past couple of years. In a world where visual representation keeps growing these words have increasingly become reality. With...
Green Bean Casserole: Side dish or epic marketing plan?
The Sunday before Thanksgiving I darted into a local grocery store to grab the dozen-or-so items I still needed for Thursday’s big dinner. On the list were all the ingredients for Green Bean Casserole. I knew where to get to everything I needed – with the exception of...