Organic Social Media : How to Build Flourishing Online Communities

WINNER: National Indie Excellence Awards 2025 - Marketing & Public Relations WINNER: 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards, Harvey Chute First Place Category Winner - Non-Fiction Business & Enterprise FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2024 - Business: Marketing & Advertising FINALIST: 2025 International Book Awards (IBA) - Business: Marketing & Advertising 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.