by Cassandra Hultgren | Aug 26, 2025 | Internship, Career, Community, Self-help, Community Management, EduSocial Blog, Strategy
When I started my internship with NISM, I wasn’t looking for a job. I was already running my own coloring book company (which, as anyone who has started a small business will know, was no small task). Time? I had none of it. Spare energy? Not exactly overflowing. But...
by Joseph Scalzo | Apr 1, 2025 | Career, Community, Self-help, EduSocial Blog, Strategy
Photo of Joseph Scalzo I admit that at the beginning of Summer 2024, I had never heard of the National Institute for Social Media. I had just finished my first year as a San Francisco State University graduate student and was looking to gain experience within the...
by Ben Rosenstiel | Mar 6, 2025 | Career, Community, Self-help, Community Management, EduSocial Blog, Strategy, Tools
Photo Source If you want to improve your online engagement, growing a community is one of the best steps to take. Creating an online community can be fun and rewarding, but it also requires a lot of effort. While getting things off the ground is a challenge, stopping...
by Taylor Munghia | Feb 27, 2025 | Community, Community Management, EduSocial Blog, Strategy
Image Source Community building is about building genuine relationships with your audience and making them your fans. In other words, the power of an online community is in the ability for many people to rally around a shared bond and feel empowered to contribute. So,...
by Ben Rosenstiel | Jan 30, 2025 | Community, Community Management, EduSocial Blog, Strategy, Tools
Photo Source If you are a community manager, you’ve probably felt the need to be the one who develops all the content. You may believe that blog posts, videos, or graphics need to come from you, and that line of thinking can lead to exhaustion and burnout. Minus a few...
by Taylor Munghia | Jan 28, 2025 | Career, Community, Community Management, EduSocial Blog, Strategy, Tools
Photo by: Miguel Á. Padriñán What is so vital about two-way conversations? In short, two-way conversation is the communication between an organization and its customers, which increases the organization’s awareness and forges genuine connections with customers....
