{"id":27474,"date":"2012-03-02T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27474"},"modified":"2012-03-02T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:10:21","slug":"from-dsc-is-this-a-piece-of-the-future-unified-opens-an-online-university-for-social-media-marketers-anthony-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/02\/from-dsc-is-this-a-piece-of-the-future-unified-opens-an-online-university-for-social-media-marketers-anthony-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"[From DSC: Is this a piece of the future?] Unified opens an online university for social media marketers [Anthony Ha]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/03\/01\/unified-university\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Unified opens an online university for social media marketers<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from TechCruch.com by Anthony Ha<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unifiedsocial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27476\" title=\"unified-3-2-12\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/unified-3-2-121.jpg\" alt=\"unifiedsocial.com\" width=\"550\" height=\"419\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/unified-3-2-121.jpg 550w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/unified-3-2-121-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unifiedsocial.com\/services\/university\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Services &gt; Unified University<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The social media landscape is complex and constantly evolving, leaving top global brands and agencies with the challenge of staying on top of the latest trends and best practices.<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Unified University is a first of its kind \u2013 an all-encompassing training, continuing education and certification program, complete with access to the industry leading best practices knowledge base. Unified University is designed to help marketing and agency executives become experts and internal thought leaders on social strategies, platform insights, earned media measurement, and more.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Through Unified University\u2019s comprehensive training program, a social team can get certified on the Unified Social Operating Platform and learn about the latest advances in social advertising.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Certification ensures that a team is up to date on the latest options within the social web, including the benefits of advertising across social ecosystems including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, StumbleUpon and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Teams learn that brands may require very different strategies to ultimately achieve similar results. Unified University assures that teams know how to strategically represent brands across all social options while delivering high quality results and maximum ROI.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Is this a part of the future? If higher ed doesn&#8217;t respond more forcefully, I&#8217;d say so. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along these lines, from page 408 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson\/dp\/1451648537\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Steve Jobs<\/em> book<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>One of Job&#8217;s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. &#8220;If you can&#8217;t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Innovate. Reinvent. Staying relevant.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">This goes for the accreditation agencies as well<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bretford.com\/university\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bretford University<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2709\" title=\"StayingRelevant\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/StayingRelevant.jpg\" alt=\"Staying Relevant\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/StayingRelevant.jpg 640w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/StayingRelevant-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unified opens an online university for social media marketers &#8212; from TechCruch.com by Anthony Ha &nbsp; Services &gt; Unified University The social media landscape is complex and constantly evolving, leaving top global brands and agencies with the challenge of staying on top of the latest trends and best practices. 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