COM 310 (Campus) - Social Media

Time/Resources/Personnel

For this piece of your Social Media Plan for your client, you will need to research occupations like Social Media Manager, or nonprofits, or time and money spent on social media marketing in the Multi-Search or other article databases and resources listed below.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Try searching for marketing manager or similar titles. See Public Relations Specialists This link opens in a new window or  Advertising, Promotions & Marketing Managers This link opens in a new window.

O*NET Online

Try similar searches as for Occupational Outlook Handbook. See Public Relations Specialists This link opens in a new window,  Advertising & Promotion Managers This link opens in a new window or Market Research Analysts & Marketing Specialists This link opens in a new window. This site goes into tremendous detail on job skills, work activities, work context, etc.

Web Articles

• How much time should you be spending on social media per week? This link opens in a new window (Digital School of Marketing, 2019) - Scroll down to the section beginning with "How much time should you be dedicating to social media marketing?"

• The Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit MarketingThis link opens in a new window - Have to fill out a form to download this guide

• How to set a smart social media budget (and get it approved) (Hootsuite, 2024)

Library Multi-Search

Start by using the Multi-Search box on the library home page. This searches about half of the subscribed library resources. Try different search phrases for the different pieces of this Social Media Plan project. Search phrases like these might yield helpful results:

• "social media" AND non-profits AND marketing

Example article: Social Media Marketing - An Effective Solution for Non-Profit Organizations

This link opens in a new window

• "social media marketing" AND non-profits This link opens in a new window

Example article: Online users' perception and response to non-profit organizations' social media marketing This link opens in a new window

• "social media" AND marketing AND budget This link opens in a new window

Example article: Strategic Social Media Marketing: An Empirical Analysis of Sequential Advertising

This link opens in a new window

• social media AND time spent on marketing This link opens in a new window

Example article:  Sam - The 3-Part Process of Social Media Marketing

This link opens in a new window

Be sure to try various combinations of relevant search terms such as "social media" (use quotes to have the search engine look for that phrase); budget, marketing, platforms, nonprofits, fundraising, etc.

Subject databases

All of these databases and more are available by clicking on the A-Z Database List in the Quick Links box on the Shapiro Library Home Page. Click on the "All Subjects" box above the alphabet and select the subject you need such as Business, Communications, Statistics, etc. to narrow down to databases that contain that content. Here are some possibilities for individual databases you might search in for articles (other than the specific databases used in other sections of this guide):