7 Tips for Creating an Integrated Content Calendar

7 Tips for Creating an Integrated Content Calendar

Which sounds more exciting – planning your content for the next 6-12 months or planning a beach vacation? Okay, maybe that isn’t a fair match up, but creating a content calendar can be a fun, satisfying practice that sets you and your team up for success.  And yes,...
Cyber Social: Make the Most of Black Friday with This Checklist

Cyber Social: Make the Most of Black Friday with This Checklist

In the run-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, your marketing goes into overdrive. The biggest sales event of the year is a necessity for brands, so it’s important to get it right. Your social channels play a particularly crucial role here. With more customers...
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...