SIU Social Media Marketing Class

09/22/2020

Sept. 23 alert -- FREE Social Media conference

Save the date for September 23, 2020! This year, we’re bringing you even more speakers, live Q&As, exclusive giveaways, and strategies for every platform.

09/15/2020

Another big reveal in the industry this week: Hundreds of thousands of fake social media accounts are sewing discord and strife around the globe with little to stop them.

BuzzFeed News: “The memo is a damning account of Facebook's failures.”

09/10/2020

Did you know that Instagram posts pushed by Russia's Internet Research Agency were liked 185 MILLION times around the time of the 2016 election although they were full of DISINFORMATION? MediaWise offers a cool non-partisan text-based course to help you if you are a first time voter, or to become a better informed veteran voter. All you do is follow this link to Prep for the Polls and enter your phone number to begin.

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09/10/2020

Food for thought: The Social Dilemma argues that humanity’s greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.

The Social Dilemma argues that humanity’s greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.

03/25/2020

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05/06/2019

More Facebook controversy swirling:

After a ban of extremists, Trump said he would "monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms

04/30/2019

And another: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/marketing/using-sensory-language-and-metaphors-to-boost-your-marketings-effectiveness

If you were a kid in 1994 or later, then you know what a rainbow tastes like: Skittles. It’s so simple, yet so memorable – Skittles come in a rainbow of colors and flavors. That’s it. One of the simplest metaphor examples, yet it’s stuck with us for over 20 years. This is the power of...

04/30/2019

Good tips: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/marketing/spam-words-to-avoid-in-email-marketing

I have a terrible habit of checking my spam folder every day – I don’t trust my spam filter to w**d out only the worst of the worst; I feel that there’s something worthwhile under the heaps of transfer money requests and strangers mentioning how they were happy to see me last night....

04/29/2019

Help. Me. Stop. Now. Please.

By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health.

04/24/2019

Twit poli: interesting and hot topic. Look at what the market did to twit stock on same day. Discuss?

The meeting came after Trump slammed Twitter for being "very discriminatory" against Republicans

04/22/2019

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04/21/2019

Yet another resource on doing SM plan, and yet again you cough up some info to get the "free" doc (and probably years of marketing to you)

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