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Discovering the Roadmap in Teaching Social Media

Deirdre Breakenridge

I have always been very passionate about social media, but when it comes to teaching social media, there is nothing more rewarding. I have been teaching my social media class for the last three years and it’s been one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had as a professor. Rubrics and feedback forms.

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Use Your Class to Get a Job in Social Media

Deirdre Breakenridge

When I attended graduate school in 2016, I was also working at a Porter Novelli in Washington, D.C. Check out these five things you can do to make your courses more life-like: Pick a client. Most of your courses will attempt to give you a broad overview of a topic so you are prepared for a variety of scenarios.

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Three top tips to help you find the right social media influencers for your brand

Prohibition

Influencer marketing has been on the rise since 2016 and the now popular marketing strategy is only getting bigger – with experts predicting the growth of influencer marketing continuing into 2022 and the sector valuing at over £12.57 Influencer marketing is a great way to further your brand awareness and social presence online.

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7 Best, 7 Worst and 7 Favorite PR Blog Posts in 2016 [Sword and the Script]

Sword and the Script

The year of 2016 brought a fairly significant evolution for this website. In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. Over the course of 2016, I published some 84 posts, on PR , marketing and social media.

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5 Reasons Email Is Key for Communication in 2016

Cision

Although businesses may intuit email as an afterthought, it easily outperforms each of the platforms mentioned about in open rate (to its social equivalent) and click-though. What I want to do in this post is make a five-point argument that email is one of the most important communications channels in 2016.

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SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q2 2016

Shift Communications

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. In April of 2016, Facebook decided to change the game and reporting methods for the typical influencer. Want to see how to do this for your blog? Here’s how. Lisa Zanchi.

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Social Media Communities: The “next move” for social media professionals

Karen Freberg

We have seen many communities arise of course over the past few decades on social media. However, can communities serve as the new “next move” for social media professionals? Some of these were based on my social media classes (ex. Why is this the case? That doesn’t help anyone.