Miami Ad School’s Boot Camp for Social Media is coming to Atlanta this summer. Here are the class topics and events you have to look forward to over the course of 12 life-changing weeks.

It’s time to take your social media future to the next level. Miami Ad School Atlanta @ Portfolio Center’s Boot Camp for Social Media starts July 3rd, and the application deadline is just one month away. Here are the classes and experiences you can look forward to.

WEEK ONE
SOCIAL 101: The Social Marketing Plan

You’ll discover today’s most-populated platforms and which ones are most relevant to brands. You’ll also explore how mobile social has triggered a quantum leap in our collective media experience. You will learn how social media fits in when building a brand in today’s communication environment.

WEEK TWO
SOCIAL STRATEGY: Social Strategies That Work

It’s hard to keep pace when people’s behavior under the best of circumstances. Today’s brands are consumed across many channels and devices, which makes the endeavor harder still. Here you’ll learn to write a social brief that identifies the overarching brand message and how to can be put forth over different social channels.

WEEK THREE
LISTEN, ANALYZE STRATEGIZE: The Art Science of Ideas in Social Media

In a world where only the truly creative and innovate get noticed, social media efforts need to combine the strength of visual branding creativity with the power of analytics. You’ll go beyond the selfie and even the hashtag, to craft ideas that engage. It’s not enough to just post on a schedule; you must build your brand’s “social footprint.” You must test content, pay attention to feedback and learn which key performance indictors—the vaunted KPIS— to use in measuring campaign effectiveness.

WEEK FOUR
DECODE A SOCIAL CAMPAIGN

What works, what doesn’t and why? Understanding the building blocks of successful campaigns is just the starting point. It’s important to create an “architecture for participation,” to make media that inspires people to share and aligns the campaign story with community values. You will review examples of great social campaigns and identify what defines success in a social campaign. Explore content, timing, images, voice and the selection of the right networks to make social media history.

WEEK FIVE
FUELING SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH PAID MEDIA: Paid Media Best Practices

You’ve already established your brand across the social media platforms and have a decent fan base; why pay for media when you can get it for free? Because it can create momentum, increase ranking and establish relationships with endorsement partners that augment your visibility. Develop a media plan to promote a campaign with a budget.

WEEL SIX
UNDERSTANDING INFLUENCE

If behavior is the driving engine of social media, influence is the fuel. Our ability to behave and feel like others is human; social media just amplifies it. What role does credibility play? How about trust and reach? You’ll learn to identify what builds influence and how to use it in your strategies.

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WEEK SEVEN
SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLISHING AT SCALE

With the proliferation of social networks, understanding which platform is the right forum to bring to life your brand strategy has never been more critical. What are the best practices for social publishing? Creating thematic conversation calendars and curating relevant content extends the brand’s voice and tone in social media na helps define your brand’s social DNA. You’ll learn how to expand your reach and establish your place in the online landscape.

WEEK EIGHT
DESIGN A SOCIAL CAMPAIGN

Define the goals of the campaign, “listen” to what the competition is doing, write the key metrics, identify your audience, select the channels, pick the platforms, create an editorial calendar. Launch, optimize, and be social.

WEEK NINE
SOCIALIZING THE BRAND EXPERIENCE: Content Strategies

To produce great content you’ll need to define your goals, plan ahead, evaluate your content production capabilities, content distribution channels, define audiences, schedule, publish and promote. A content calendar is your sanity’s best friend. With the mainstreaming of smart phones and tablets, social brand experiences are not limited to sitting in front of a computer. (Not that they ever really were.) Mobile interaction with brands is today’s normal and brings new opportunities through incentives or gamification—check-ins, photo sharing and augmented reality, for example. You’ll discuss various brand platforms and how to extend the brand experience through multiple screens and a variety of contexts.

WEEK TEN
THE FUTURE OF THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE

Media changes every day with new apps, platforms and ways of sharing and connecting in the digital space. New devices like web-linked glasses and smart watches as well as tablets and smartphones that are more sophisticated than ever, mean that the way we consume media is changing constantly. You’ll learn the future of geolocation, mobile commerce, augmented, and virtual reality. Maybe we’ll even come up with the next big thing.

WEEK ELEVEN
FINAL REVIEW AND BOOK

Social media and students are required to present their body of work from the program to a leading social media expert. This final review is the pass/fail evaluation for the Boot Camp for Social Media.

WEEK TWELVE
AGENCY TOURS / PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

You’ll go door-to-door, visiting ad agencies and media firms to experience their philosophy and culture. You’ll gain insight into their social media and strategy operations. You will also meet the professionals who work there to network and for interview and critique sessions.

Acquire world-class social media skills and upgrade your career. Reserve your spot now. Application deadline is May 26th.