Meet and Greet: Amanda Andresen

Meet and Greet: Amanda Andresen

The NISM SMS professionals serve as ambassadors for our certification program. Not only are they knowledgeable about our curriculum, but they also share our passion for social media. Best of all, their stories help shape our organization and the work that we do here....
Twitter Lists and Your Social Strategy

Twitter Lists and Your Social Strategy

Twitter lists are a very helpful organizational tool which allows you to filter accounts by the categories that you’ve assigned them to. For example, if I have connected with individuals that I know value education, I can add them to a list labeled: Education....
Micro-Influencers & Social Media Marketing

Micro-Influencers & Social Media Marketing

Through our partnership with St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, we meet extremely talented MBA students and social media marketing professionals. One of their assignments in our course is to blog on an area of social media that they found most interesting or learned...
How to Reach More Readers Using Social Media and Publicity

How to Reach More Readers Using Social Media and Publicity

Book marketing and publicity for nonfiction authors can be overwhelming with the vast array of social media platforms. Many authors wonder how to use social media and worry they will do it wrong. Let’s address some basic dos and don’ts of using social media for book...
Influencers are Losing their Influence

Influencers are Losing their Influence

Open Instagram and begin to scroll through your feed. How many organic posts made by friends or family do you see before you come across an influencer-sponsored post? Odds are you won’t make it very far, seeing as 93% of influencers use Instagram as their platform of...