Social Media courses?

[zmama32]

Anyone taken any social media/blogging courses online? Any favorites?

[cookderosa]

Anyone taken any social media/blogging courses online? Any favorites?

Do you need it for credit or personal interest? Alison offers several that you might like, but they're all personal interest. I've taken a few through Alison (one actually on social network marketing and a few others)they were pretty good for the price
ALISON: Free Online Courses

Edit: this was the one I did: Diploma in Social Media Marketing

[zmama32]

Personal interest/fun! It's something I enjoy and would definitely love to learn more!

Thanks for the links! Will definitely look into it. I need something to do after I graduate

[SweetSecret]

If you really want to make yourself more marketable with this, you'll want to learn about performance measurements/analytics to social media. A lot of people just waste time posting away, rather than really targeting the market, time, and interest of their posts. I did some work a few summers ago for a company that manages social media accounts of other large companies. There were very specific processes I had to follow in order to increase interest and engagement with the target market, and so that all of the interest via clicks on links could be measured. Also, rather than just learning to post directly from the website such as FaceBook/Twitter, we used Hootsuite which now allows for even more advanced options than what Facebook allows directly. For example, you can schedule a post on Facebook but they won't tell you the best time to post according to when the most users are online. Hootsuite actually allows you to schedule a post and finds the best time to post for you, which can even be filtered down according to what country you want more views from.

Something along the lines of this would be good:
MGMT E-6655 Social Media and Analytics