Introduction to Social Media

Name: Introduction to Social Media
Start: 2023-05-18 00:00:00
Location: Virtual Classroom

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Social Media is a key communication tool for today's digital marketers. Our Introduction to Social Media course will help grow your confidence in understanding and using social media platforms for business.

1 day course

Supporting material

Virtual, Private

Virtual Classroom

A convenient and interactive learning experience, that enables you to attend one of our courses from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you can log on. We offer Virtual Classroom on selected live classroom courses where this will appear as an option under the location drop down if available. These can also be booked as Private Virtual Classrooms for exclusive business sessions.

Private

A private training session for your team. Groups can be of any size, at a location of your choice including our training centres.

On this one day course we'll explore Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Tik Tok, helping you get to grips with the latest platform trends and updates.

Led by one of our expert social media professionals, this course takes an engaging, hands-on, interactive approach. Throughout the day we will navigate through the platforms showing you best practices to get you set up and using the platforms for business. From hashtag utilisation to creating interactive content, you will leave feeling confident in how to use social media for business.

We also offer an advanced Social Media Strategy course aimed at those already using social media for online marketing.

Our Introduction to Social Media course is available via Virtual Classroom. We also offer private training virtually or at a location of your choice in South Africa.

Course overview

Who should attend:

This course is ideal if you want to learn how to use social media for business. You may be a professional in a digital, marketing or PR role or currently not doing any social media activity or simply want to learn best practices.

Walk away with the ability to:

Differentiate between organic and paid social media
Identify the changing social media landscape, including platform priorities
Explain why and how a business can use social media
Understand how to use social media for business
Apply techniques to protect your business on social media

Course Agenda

Introduction to Social Media

Why people use social media
Difference between paid, owned and earned social media
2023 social media trends and innovations

How businesses use social media

The role of each platform and key audiences
The role social media plays in a business

Overview of the key social platforms

How to use each of the key platforms
We will explore the following tactics to engage, inform, educate and entertain audiences: community building, broadcasting and building immersive experiences

How to protect your business on social media

Creating a social media policy
Risk management
Setting up a crisis response plan
Dealing with negative comments

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Introduction to Social Media

Thu, May 18 2023

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Virtual Classroom

Introduction to Social Media

Mon, Aug 07 2023

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Introduction to Social Media

Mon, Nov 06 2023

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