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About Social Pros Podcast:
Social Pros is one of the longest-running marketing podcasts in existence (10 YEARS and counting), and was recently recognized as the #1 Audio/Podcast Series by the Content Marketing Awards.
Our purpose? Making sure that we speak to real people doing real work in social media.
Listeners get inside stories and behind-the-scenes secrets about how teams at companies like Google, Reddit, Glossier, Zillow, Lyft, Marvel, and dozens more, staff, operate, and measure their social media programs. With 500+ episodes, the Social Pros Podcast brings the humanity of social media to the forefront, while providing incredibly useful marketing strategies that listeners can immediately implement.
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Linda Dianne, Video/Social Media Strategist from Diversify Social Media and Milly Tamarez, a Freelance Social Media Manager and Comedian, join the Social Pros Podcast to talk about the importance of diversity on social media.
Be More Inclusive on Social Media
Inclusivity on social media is so important. Brands continue to make promises to be more inclusive, which is great. However, we need to make a real effort to change and grow to ensure we’re inclusive in not just what we say, but in what we do.
Two special guests join us in this powerful Social Pros episode featuring Linda Dianne, Video/Social Media Strategist from Diversify Social Media, and Milly Tamarez, a Freelance Social Media Manager and Comedian. The fight for true diversity, inclusivity, and acceptance for all is still ongoing. The jury is still out on lasting change from brands, and as Milly states in this episode, “something has shifted, and things have changed. But it is a process that we have to continue working on and optimizing.”
Many deeply important topics around diversity in the social media industry are discussed in this episode, so tune in with an open mind and get ready to motivate real change in your everyday life.
In This Episode:
- 03:08 – How Diversify Social Media got started
- 05:20 – How personal experiences and world events inspired Linda and Milly to launch Diversify Social Media
- 11:15 – What the Diversify Social Media curriculum consists of
- 15:46 – What pieces of the curriculum tend to stand out to students and participants
- 19:21 – Who would benefit from the Diversify Social Media program
- 23:51 – Whether brands have developed a better understanding of diversity following the Black Lives Matter movement
- 27:51 – How brands can become more inclusive
- 32:26 – How to get involved with the Diversify Social Media program
Quotes From This Episode:
“It’s more than just having faces in a room. It’s about having inclusion & avoiding tokenism.” – Linda Dianne
“Social media is social. You have to interact & be a part of a community.” – Milly Tamarez
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