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sparked: A new kind of social media training program

Communications Conversations

“Arik, I have a couple team members I need to train up when it comes to social media ad buying–where should I send them?” Sure, classes exist that cover social media and digital marketing at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Or, there are social media certificate programs.

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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. Everyone is using social media for marketing today. Facebook isn’t Twitter, right?

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Crisis Communications & Social Media When “It” Hits the Fan

PRSay

As employees ran for safety, one stopped to take a photo of the fireball, then sat in his Ford F150 and created a Facebook page. Social media is your competition. By then, eyewitnesses on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other sites have been telling their version of your story. Who is winning that competition?

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Social media is easier than PR

Stuart Bruce

While talking about recruiting I said that I’d always prefer to recruit a PR person as it was easier to teach a PR person social media than it was to teach a social media person PR. There are some brilliant lawyers who specialise in social media law, but first and foremost they are lawyers.

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Revisiting Social Media: Power, Performance and Planning

PR in High Definition

Is social media too powerful? I wondered if this is really what social networking meant? When our PR agency Firefly was born, I could not have imagined the mere existence of social media, let alone the impact it would have. Does social media actually have too much power and influence?

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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 Create a Social Media Content Calendar

Cision

When developing a public relations or marketing strategy, many companies decide to start by jumping on the social media train. While getting started with a social media strategy may be easy, it needs to be consistent and well thought out to make it truly successful. Not all social networks are the same.