The National Institute for Social Media (NISM) is excited to welcome one of its newest educators into our highly skilled community, Magdalena (Lena) Schurmann, SMS. Not only is Lena a talented Social Media Strategist (SMS) who owns her own business, but Lena is also...
Social Media has changed the way that we look at many things in today’s society, including how we look at sports. Many people are now looking at social media to help them find sports results, chat with other sports fans and even follow or like their favorite...
What you see is what you get. When it comes to your LinkedIn profile, are you scaring people away? No, I don’t mean your profile picture. The scariest LinkedIn profiles I’ve seen are those who “mask” their identity by providing limited information and not showing...
One of the presenters at MN Blog Con, Donna Hup, related a story of bloggers floating down the Chicago river on a tour of Chicago architecture: all wrote posts, all were very different. Thus, this post is a take on Saturday’s events at Concordia, but a very personal...
As a social media manager at a big brand, in a regulated industry none the less, one of the things that has consistently kept me awake at night is how we provide our community with the customer service they need on social media. What if a member tweets us at 11pm on a...