{"id":970,"date":"2022-01-14T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/?p=970"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:57:11","slug":"social-media-management-a-look-at-the-corps-and-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/digitalcorps\/2022\/01\/14\/social-media-management-a-look-at-the-corps-and-the-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Management: A Look at the Corps and the Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The History of&nbsp;Social Media&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSocial media allows big companies to act small again\u201d \u2013 Jay Baer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The birth of social media came in 1997 with the creation of the&nbsp;social media site, Six Degrees, by Andrew&nbsp;Weinreich.&nbsp;This was followed by the creation of&nbsp;MySpace, which&nbsp;lead&nbsp;to Facebook, and the list goes on.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"137\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200036\/download-1.jpg 369w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200036\/download-1-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><figcaption>Six Degrees Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"162\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-3-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200037\/download-3-2.png 311w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200037\/download-3-2-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><figcaption>MySpace Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;birth of modern social media&nbsp;came in&nbsp;the early 2000s with the creation of the social networking site,&nbsp;LunarStorm. This&nbsp;considered&nbsp;is&nbsp;the birth of modern social media because&nbsp;it was the first social media site to be financed via advertisements.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-976\" \/><figcaption>LunsarStorm Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now,&nbsp;social media has become a vital&nbsp;21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;century marketing tool&nbsp;due to the rise of social media users. Today&nbsp;56.8% of the world&nbsp;uses&nbsp;social media, making it an&nbsp;ideal location for businesses to market themselves,&nbsp;ushering in the need for social media management.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is social media management?&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media management&nbsp;is considered the process of managing&nbsp;a business or&nbsp;organization\u2019s&nbsp;online presence&nbsp;on social media platforms,&nbsp;such as Instagram, Twitter,&nbsp;and Facebook.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having a social media manager&nbsp;allows&nbsp;businesses and organizations to&nbsp;have a smooth and on-going plan as to how you will be posting, responding to users,&nbsp;and collecting the feedback that you receive&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media management goes further than&nbsp;just posting a photo or writing a funny tweet. Managing a platform means you not only need to be posting&nbsp;frequently enough to remain relevant, but you also need to be engaging and interacting with social media users.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Social Media Management at The Digital Corps&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as The Digital Corps has grown since its start in 2006, so has our social media.&nbsp;Currently, our Communication Team manages four social media platforms: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,&nbsp;and LinkedIn. To do this, the Communication Team divides up who runs each platform,&nbsp;so&nbsp;each team member will have experience in running different social media platforms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the Corps decided to make social media management an official project as our accounts are getting bigger and more content is&nbsp;needed.&nbsp;This project has been known as \u201cThe Corps Social Media Project.\u201d&nbsp;As a manager of a platform, their role is to create, plan,&nbsp;and post content.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Corps&nbsp;Social Media Team&nbsp;works together to craft post ideas.&nbsp;At&nbsp;the beginning of every semester, the team sits down and has a&nbsp;brainstorming session&nbsp;to think up content ideas. This can be anything from&nbsp;video ideas for the Corps\u2019 Holiday video or funny tweets&nbsp;for&nbsp;current Twitter trends.&nbsp;Social media managers also utilize what is happening around the&nbsp;office by posting photos from video shoots, projects that have been completed&nbsp;and more in order to craft content each week.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:11px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Instagram_example-398x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-988\" \/><figcaption>Digital Corps&nbsp;Instagram post that showcases the Digital Corps voice.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Megan Barry, Ball State&nbsp;alumna&nbsp;and&nbsp;former&nbsp;account manager for Twitter at The Digital&nbsp;Corps&nbsp;explains&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u201cBeing given the opportunity to learn and run social media accounts at the Corps&nbsp;helped me as a professional in social media management. The Corps gave me the skillsets necessary&nbsp;to help a&nbsp;business&#8217;s&nbsp;social network grow.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200038\/image.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption>Megan Barry, Ball State Digital Corps alumna, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addison&nbsp;Paul, Graduate Assistant and the former manager for Instagram&nbsp;learned a lot through social media management too. She explains that \u201cStarting out as the manager for Instagram to&nbsp;being the [former] Junior Project Manager&nbsp;for the Corps&nbsp;Social Media project shows how far the Corps has come in social media management. We have been able to add&nbsp;caption&nbsp;writing, content creation, and scheduling to the Communication Team\u2019s skillsets.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200039\/image-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption>Addison Paul, Digital Corps GA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few&nbsp;years,&nbsp;the Social Media Team has been able to refine the process&nbsp;to be efficient, while also providing the opportunity to learn.&nbsp;To do this,&nbsp;social media managers plan their posts a week in advance, that way the content has enough time to be reviewed and approved by the project\u2019s Junior Project Manager, Calandra&nbsp;Weaver. Once&nbsp;she&nbsp;approves the&nbsp;content,&nbsp;it is ready to be posted!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Social Media Management IRL<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Digital Corps&nbsp;provides&nbsp;students&nbsp;with the opportunity to learn new skillsets that go along with the industry standards of today. To do this, the team looks to&nbsp;what\u2019s trending with brands&nbsp;or&nbsp;top social media accounts or just what the public&nbsp;reacts the best to on various platforms.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order for&nbsp;a business to maintain its presence on social media, they rely on social media management best practices.&nbsp;These are&nbsp;the best ways for businesses to maximize their company\u2019s social media presence and gain more exposure.&nbsp;Here are a few of the&nbsp;best practices&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freshsparks.com\/social-media-best-practices-for-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fresh Sparks<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To start, social media managers set measurable goals for their&nbsp;platform&nbsp;that aims for&nbsp;it&nbsp;to grow. The goal that the manager chooses should be something more than just getting more likes or comments. It&nbsp;should focus on&nbsp;reaching a strategic goal, such as&nbsp;building brand awareness&nbsp;or increasing engagement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200048\/download-3.jpg 310w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/01\/14200048\/download-3-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next,&nbsp;social media managers must assess each platform and decide which ones will work best for their brand, target audience, etc. For&nbsp;example, the Corps&nbsp;does not have a Snapchat account because the content on that platform is not relevant to our followers. To figure out which platforms are best for a company, social media&nbsp;managers look to their target audience and their online behaviors.&nbsp;Narrowing down the&nbsp;number&nbsp;of platforms is an effective way to&nbsp;manage the company\u2019s social media strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Account managers&nbsp;are also in charge of making sure the&nbsp;company\u2019s&nbsp;brand fits your social media profile pages.&nbsp;This means maintaining a consistent company voice on each platform. For example, the Corps voice&nbsp;has been crafted to be professional, but also fun and focused on learning.&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;can also maintain their brand image on social media&nbsp;through the company description in the bio, using the company logo for the&nbsp;profile picture and posting photos and videos that are consistent with the brand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.36.29-AM-372x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" \/><figcaption>Digital Corps Facebook&nbsp;post showcasing the Digital Corps voice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barry&nbsp;explains that \u201cThe Corps helped me learn how to run a social media account that fits&nbsp;the&nbsp;voice of the company that I am working for. For example,&nbsp;I tried to craft my posts for Twitter to be fun and go along with current trends, while also having a professional side.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How is social media management growing?&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing that we have learned about social media is that it is constantly changing.&nbsp;What is trending on Twitter today might not be tomorrow.&nbsp;This means that&nbsp;social media managers need to be able to work in a fast-paced environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Businesses are paying notice&nbsp;to&nbsp;the strength that can come to their brand when they&nbsp;utilize&nbsp;social media platforms. On average, companies spend $4000 to $7000 per month on social media&nbsp;management, according to an analysis done by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/buffer.com\/library\/social-media-marketing-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Content Factory<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Businesses invest in&nbsp;tools&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Canva, which is an online&nbsp;design and&nbsp;publishing tool&nbsp;that allows to create your own social media content as well as newsletters, presentations and more.&nbsp;They also&nbsp;utilize advertising on social media&nbsp;by purchasing ads on social media sites. Businesses can purchase ads on Facebook and Instagram&nbsp;by allowing the company to connect with people in their target audience who are most likely to interact with the content.&nbsp;Doing this can increase traffic to a&nbsp;business&#8217;s&nbsp;site. By doing this, hopefully a company will see the growth in the overall&nbsp;business&nbsp;development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way that businesses utilize social media management is by using social media scheduling sites&nbsp;such as Buffer and Hootsuite.&nbsp;Scheduling sites&nbsp;allow managers to plan and schedule their posts in advance, by acting as the middleman between&nbsp;the&nbsp;social media&nbsp;platform and the manager.&nbsp;This makes scheduling posts easier and more efficient&nbsp;for the managers as they do not have to manually post from the app.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980\" \/><figcaption>Buffer Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"\/digitalcorps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-2-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-983\" \/><figcaption>Hootsuite Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because The Digital&nbsp;Corps&nbsp;is dedicated to educating students and keeping up with industry trends,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Corps will be launching&nbsp;a new account on TikTok. The Digital Corps hopes that&nbsp;this will increase engagement in younger audiences and give the office another creative outlet.&nbsp;The Corps is also continuing to follow industry trends by adding another&nbsp;platform&nbsp;the Corps social media:&nbsp;TikTok. More and more businesses are beginning to utilize TikTok&nbsp;to reach Gen Z, as they are the trendsetters on the platform and are set to become the largest generation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;world of social media management is continuing to expand.&nbsp;Businesses are relying on scheduling sites to schedule each platform\u2019s post. This shows that businesses&nbsp;are moving to create a more goal-oriented&nbsp;social media presence. 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