Skol Marketing Meet and Greet

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

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...
Changes to Continuing Education Credits

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

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

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...
Why is it so hard to secure our own masks first?

Why is it so hard to secure our own masks first?

Leaders, this blog post is for you. I was watching the safety instruction video for what felt like the millionth time and my mind began to wander. As I watched the animated woman in the video dutifully follow instructions and secure her own mask before securing her...