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sparked: A new kind of social media training program

Communications Conversations

Or, there are social media certificate programs. I’m sure you’ve seen some of these in your Facebook or LinkedIn feeds. sparked is a social and digital media training program where real-world professionals who work from some of the Twin Cities largest brands and agencies are the professors.

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How to Conduct Skype and Facebook Live Interviews with the Media

Critical Mention

With news media resources continuing to shrink, news organizations find that interviews through social media save valuable time and resources. It can also provide a sense of immediacy during an ongoing media event. So, being a pro at social media interviews can significantly increase your brand mentions. Critical Mention.

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A PR View Of CEO Apologies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Media training can be a useful communications tool, whether it be for national TV interviews or phone chats with small trade press. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook. He outlines coming solutions and good things Facebook is doing. He has clearly benefited from excellent media training. Contrition?

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These Smart Social Media Tactics Will Help You Prevent A Crisis

Melissa Agnes

A company with two plane crashes in the last year asks people to post their bucket list destinations on social media. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. 1) Provide social media training for everyone that operates as an admin on a brand account. But, are they a crisis?

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Digital PR spend increases significantly, but still not enough investment in training

Stuart Bruce

Over half of agency people require more digital/social media training (53%). Unsurprisingly, Twitter and Facebook remain on top, with 96% and 92% of in-house teams having used those platforms over the past year. However, social media (i.e. Facebook use has leapt from 77% to 89% in the past year.

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Why Companies Should Be Training All Employees to Use Social Media

Cision

Around 200 people gathered for PRNews’ Big 4 Conference in San Francisco to learn about rising marketing and PR trends, strategies and tactics for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. What we often see in mid-to-large-sized companies are policies that discourage employees from using sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

And businesses are starting to realize that simply setting up a livestream and giving executives (most of whom who probably haven’t been media trained) the mic isn’t going to cut it. I manage a few different Facebook groups, one of which is a completely free + no catch Social PR community: The Social PR Posse.

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