After budget cuts, I fought to keep this membership because this is the best professional resource I’ve had in my entire career.
Mark Murdock, Kindred Healthcare
It is the only dedicated social media association we actively participate in, because it’s the only one we need.
Todd Blecher, Boeing
Having a network of peers to tap into when dealing with decisions around a global pandemic, social justice movements, and potential boycotts of platforms you use every day is truly priceless.
Angela Eick, Steelcase
There is absolutely no question that this group is worth the money. The information and resources you can get through this community is stuff consultants and agencies can’t get access to. Members will share their metrics, their approach, and their experiences with consultants. That will save you the cost of membership in one exercise.
Paul Pellizzari, Hard Rock International
The calls this year have been so valuable — we were able to provide recommendations and POVs to our leadership based on feedback from other brands. We wouldn’t have had the level of confidence about our social strategy this year without SocialMedia.org.
Rob Hanson, Keurig Dr Pepper
SocialMedia.org is a support system like no other in the professional sense today. It offers a network of peers to foster candid, vendor-free conversations ranging from timely topics to strategic imperatives.
Jeremy Humphries, Farmers Insurance
I love the diversity of thoughts members bring to SocialMedia.org conversations. There is always something new to learn from others in this rapidly changing social media environment.
Edna Guerra, Kimberly-Clark
Being a part of this community allows me to speak with confidence when I say I’m making the right decision or I’m changing course as needed. This community helps me assess risk. By attending calls I can tell my boss, ‘X% of people in roles like mine are doing X,’ which is so vital to what I do.
Michelle Lockett, Siemens Healthineers
There are no vendors, so we are free to talk with other practitioners and share strategies. It’s very valuable!
Allison Brown, AbbVie
I was part of SocialMedia.org 12 years ago and didn’t hesitate to boomerang back to the community a decade later. There’s a ton of value in having a benchmarking team at our fingertips, as well as best-in-class moderation to manage the information flow to our inboxes. I always feel “in the know” and well equipped to find answers to our most pressing social media questions.
Brodie Bertrand, Grainger
The amount of helpful information, ongoing support, and networking opportunities I receive from this organization is invaluable.
Alyssa Meyers, Thomson Reuters
We are definitely getting our money’s worth out of SocialMedia.org. The calls have been super helpful to benchmark where other companies stand. We share internally what we’re learning, and it’s powerful to be able to say, ‘I just got off a call with 200 brands, 12% of them are doing this.’
Molly James-Lundak, AbbVie
Truly the best investment I’ve made this year.
Shea Carter, Kontoor Brands (Wrangler Jeans)
SocialMedia.org is a really special community where we can get real-world information from organizations just like ours. This is invaluable when news is breaking or events are happening, and you really need to be thoughtful about how you respond and represent your brand. SocialMedia.org makes it possible to have a close community that spans the globe.
Frankie Saucier, The Home Depot
SocialMedia.org is really our insurance policy for social media. Even if we missed something the night before, we know in the morning we’re going to have some sort of alert from SocialMedia.org so we are always armed with the latest information.
Jaci Twidwell, Hallmark
SocialMedia.org was there for me in the most challenging of times. Specifically, when social media rapidly grew during the pandemic, and I didn’t know what direction to take to be as successful as I knew we could be. The organization and the people in the community have always been willing to step up and help, and for that, I’m thankful.
Nicole Walden, Rust-Oleum
It’s unfair to call SocialMedia.org an ‘industry group.’ They are a collective of peers, and, as such, have provided hundreds of moments of support, lessons-learned, and plain old camaraderie through COVID-19 — as they always do. No ‘industry group’ inspires like this one does.
Doug Busk, Emory University
I’ve said it before, but even without the great swag, SocialMedia.org is the best, most useful, friendly, and productive professional community I’ve ever joined. If you’re in the industry, you should absolutely consider applying for membership.
Erica Manney, Synchrony
The SocialMedia.org community has been invaluable lately. I’m able to come back to our leadership team with solid ideas on how we can be better. I am grateful we could eke out the budget at the end of the year in 2019 to join, because I think I would be feeling lost without the community right now.
David Lingholm, Consumers Energy
We don’t belong to any other professional organizations, and there’s a distinct reason for that. This is the one that gives us the value.
Sue Serna, Cargill
I love the people, discussions, topics, and the SocialMedia.org staff — the entire community is great! The conversations are open and honest.
Mike Disser, Nissan North America
Direct quote from our Director of Communications, ‘In the past three weeks, SocialMedia.org has shown its value threefold.’
Shelby Khan, Cloudera
If it’s important, we’re talking about it at SocialMedia.org.
Matthew Staub, H&R Block
This community gives me great peace of mind knowing I can reach out to a large group of professionals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets at any time about a variety of topics and get responses and perspective almost instantly.
Anthony Jones, Rockwell Automation
I love how I can ask a question to the group and get an answer in two seconds.
Regina DeMars, Conagra Brands
This community helps me grow professionally. I get the chance to connect with my counterparts in a number of industries, as well as competing firms. And because of our confidentiality agreement, we share stories and insights that help us connect in ways we might not otherwise.
Allen Plummer, Vanguard
I love how this community shares and collaborates.
Julie Finlay, USAA
No vendors. Real thought leadership. People who do what you do, sharing best (and worst!) practices openly.
Mo Moorman, Aurora Health Care
This group is a godsend. Seriously.
Rosaria Mineo, Cooper University Health Care
At SocialMedia.org, there’s no agencies — there’s nobody selling anything. It’s sort of like gloves are off, and you can talk about what you need to talk about.
Lisa Zimmer, MillerCoors
I have been a member of various types of marketing organizations, and I would say that SocialMedia.org Health is by far the best one. It’s overwhelming how much you walk away with.
James Sims III, Northwestern Medicine
Tuning in to the social unrest discussions alone made our membership fees worth it. We’re happy participants, thank you!
Krista Ortwein, Olympus
What SocialMedia.org means to Johnsonville: Opportunities to learn from each other, share the good and bad, and develop together. Membership is a great value, because members just ‘get’ us and ‘get’ social. It’s the best customer service delivered by a trade organization!
Stephanie Dlugopolski, Johnsonville Sausage
The guidance and insights we’ve gained from other members has been instrumental in helping us shape our social media practices.
Debbie Curtis-Magley, UPS
SocialMedia.org has been extremely helpful to me and my team, specifically over the last two years as we have navigated a global pandemic, social/civil unrest, and a myriad of other PR/crises and issues. We really appreciate the candid feedback from members and the poll feature that starts most calls. It has helped us make decisions and manage up in ways we wouldn’t have been able to.
Katie Malone, UPS