Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities by Jenny Li Fowler
About the Book
Organizations and institutions focused on community building have a built-in group of ambassadors who embrace their message and vision.
Social media managers have a unique opportunity to lean into this loyalty by creating a social presence informed by this digital engagement.
In Organic Social Media, Jenny Li Fowler outlines the important steps that social media managers need to take to enhance an organization’s broader growth objectives.
Fowler breaks down the important questions to help readers determine the best platforms to invest in, how they can streamline the approval process, and other essential strategic steps to create an organic following on social platforms.
Organic Social Media explains how to elevate the key growth objectives of a brand by creating or recreating its online presence.
Early chapters walk readers through the planning phase, the process of strategic goal setting, platform selection, resource management, and content discovery.
Later chapters focus on executing these established plans and offer a strategic way to build a content calendar and track the success of social.
With this book, social media managers will future-proof the online presence of any organization.
About the Author
Jenny Li Fowler is the director of social media strategy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
She is in charge of developing and executing Institute-wide social media initiatives and campaigns and provides social media consultation and direction for more than 250 departments, labs, and centers.
She also manages MIT’s flagship X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads and TikTok accounts.
Before MIT, she served as a Social Media Manager and Web Editor for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
And, interesting fact – earlier in her career she was a TV reporter and news anchor!
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