By completing this course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to plan and execute a successful social media strategy. You will learn to apply strategic thinking to your social media efforts, ensuring that your messaging resonates with your target audience and aligns with your company's broader business goals. This course will enable you to analyze the impact of your strategic messaging on key stakeholders and evaluate engagement to determine the next steps.



Strategic Planning for Social Media
This course is part of Social Media as a Marketing Tool in Business Communication Specialization

Instructor: Erin Willis
Access provided by New York State Department of Labor
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What you'll learn
Apply strategic thinking to creating a social media strategy.
Analyze the impact of strategic messaging on stakeholders.
Evaluate engagement to determine next steps.
Plan for social media effectively.
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There are 3 modules in this course
You will understand how to apply strategic thinking to creating social media strategy and the importance of planning. You will be able to define paid, earned, shared, and owned media in regard to marketing communication, and how to use each in strategic planning. Relationship-building strategies in audience development will be discussed, and you will analyze the impact of strategic messaging on key stakeholder groups. Lastly, you will evaluate engagement to better determine the next steps.
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12 videos6 readings1 peer review
You will understand the art and science of planning in social media. Creating a social media strategy requires that the target audience is understood well, and that messages are crafted with their needs and desires in mind. You will also plan social media in coordination with the company's larger business goals in mind, understanding that social media is just part of the brand communication.
What's included
11 videos6 readings1 discussion prompt
You will plan content pillars that highlight their company's mission and core values, and understand how to leverage social media to create word-of-mouth among target audiences. Platform affordances are discussed and how to create content that engages audiences and develops loyal customers. You will understand visual communication and how to create an aesthetic brand image. Evaluation of social media content will also be discussed and how to course correct if the content is not performing.
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11 videos9 readings1 assignment
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