Crisis Tested, Community Approved: When Online Relationships Make (or Break) Your Brand

Crisis Tested, Community Approved: When Online Relationships Make (or Break) Your Brand

Photo by Kelly Sikkema Ever noticed how the brands that handle a crisis well are the ones with a strong community already behind them? It’s not a coincidence. Whether it’s a product fail, a social slip-up, or a full-on PR disaster, a loyal and engaged online community...
Bringing The Human Back To Digital: Practical Humanity In Practice

Bringing The Human Back To Digital: Practical Humanity In Practice

Featured image by Tara Winstead Effective human-centered policies and practices require more than good intentions. They need specific, actionable guidelines that address the realities of social media work while maintaining operational effectiveness. Many organizations...
When Your Social Media Team Handles Traumatic Content

When Your Social Media Team Handles Traumatic Content

Photo by Martina Carinci As a social media professional, you will likely be exposed to traumatic content within your feed due to disturbing events in the news or postings by bad actors. Whether it’s real or AI-generated, being exposed to graphic or traumatic content...
Influencer Marketing’s Blindspot: FTC Regulations and How to Follow Them

Influencer Marketing’s Blindspot: FTC Regulations and How to Follow Them

Featured image by MART PRODUCTION Influencer marketing is booming, expected to reach $33 billion globally. It’s a space where everyone from budding influencers to major brands is looking to cash in (and yes, NISM even offers a webinar on influencer marketing basics!)....
Prompting Matters: ChatGPT vs. Claude on GA4 Campaigns

Prompting Matters: ChatGPT vs. Claude on GA4 Campaigns

Featured image by photoGraph What happens when you love data, are intrigued by AI, and have too much time on your hands? You test AI capabilities and pit ChatGPT against Claude to see what happens, of course! Here’s the background information: I provided a GA4 data...
How AI Is Shaping Social Media Monitoring And Crisis Management

How AI Is Shaping Social Media Monitoring And Crisis Management

Featured image source These days, old-school monitoring methods simply cannot keep pace with the speed and complexity of digital communication and the endless conversations happening online. With billions of posts, opinions and images flooding social networks daily,...