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Market like a journalist: How to use reporting skills to improve your content

Great marketing content has a lot in common with great reporting. Stories that resonate with our audiences follow the cardinal rule of good feature writing: show, don’t tell. Marketers can apply basic lessons from journalism to create strong content, from editing for accuracy to approaching every topic with curiosity. This session will offer 10 practical […]

Lessons from Union’s Instagram transformation: Analyzing data, taking risks and celebrating success

Has your social media growth slowed or plateaued? At Union College, we saw only incremental growth until we decided to try something completely different. In just three months, we transformed our Instagram strategy, shifting from curated content to authentic, community-generated posts and leveraged a team of content creators and an exploratory approach to build up […]

Crafting an audience-centric approach to crisis management

How does your campus define a crisis, and who determines that definition? The key to successfully managing a crisis is having an effective communications plan and intently listening to what your audiences are saying. When campus stakeholders understand their roles and expectations, communications teams can more effectively focus on the important parts. Using social listening, […]