Purpose
Power up your teaching skills during this half-day, virtual conference!
Gain insights on digital and social media marketing instruction as you and other members of the Stukent community join for this online event.
Stukent Digital Summit
Power Up Your Teaching Skills
with Cutting-edge Marketing Training with Experts from Industry and Academia
Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 at 8AM MDT
Speakers & Schedule
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Alexa Fox
Dr. Alexa Fox is an assistant professor of marketing at The University of Akron (Ph.D., The University of Memphis). Her research interests include digital marketing, user-generated content, online privacy, and physiological measurement of cognition and emotion. Her work on visual user-generated social media content was selected as 2018 Outstanding Paper in Journal of Consumer Marketing. Alexa teaches social media marketing, digital marketing, and consumer behavior. Prior to academia, she worked in strategic and online marketing.
SESSION DETAILS
What's New in Social? How to Implement a Social Media Marketing Trend Exercise Using Facebook Live
Alexa’s session will offer useful “tips and tricks” for effective implementation of this dynamic exercise — students compose blog articles about a trending social media marketing topic, which are assessed by the instructor and marketing professionals from a local agency, and the top selections are published on the company’s publication network. Students then present the topics via a Department of Marketing Facebook Live event, during which community and local marketing professionals tune in and share feedback live. Bring your questions about this exciting exercise!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kristin Minetti
Kristin Minetti is faculty at California State University, Chico in the marketing department. She is also a section instructor for Washington State University’s online MBA program. She attained her MBA online from Washington State University in 2015 and knows what it takes to be successful in an online environment. Kristin is passionate about personal development and is an advisor to multiple clubs and sororities. She enjoys helping students discover their passions and reach their goals.
SESSION DETAILS
5 Ways to Keep Your Students Engaged in a Virtual Setting
A concern of many faculty from all education levels is how to keep students engaged in an online setting. In this session, Kristin will provide tips for engaging students based on her experience consistently receiving positive student engagement feedback in both face-to-face and virtual settings as an instructor and her experience as a virtual student.
Learn how to translate your face-to-face engagement to an online environment while inspiring your students through communication, etiquette, vulnerability, and more.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Gabriel Warren
Dr. Gabriel Warren is the MBA program director and an assistant professor of marketing at Bemidji State University. Prior to transitioning into higher education, Gabriel spent 12 years working in industry in the capacity of sales, sales management, and marketing roles. He has presented at several professional and academic conferences along with publishing a few peer-reviewed journal articles.
SESSION DETAILS
How to Create Diverse Teams in Group Work
Now more than ever, the workforce is becoming more diverse in various areas (racially, skillset, and generationally). Walk away from this session with strategies and best practices that can be applied to preparing students for working with diverse teams, see the benefits of creating teams that duplicate working in a diverse environment, and learn how to form these groups in your class.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Mel Zuberi
Dr. Mel F. Zuberi is an assistant professor of marketing at Hood College and is the current president of the association of collegiate marketing educators. His research explores marketing theory formation and marketing distribution channels strategy. He has been published in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. Mel has taught a variety of courses including digital and social media marketing, strategic marketing channels, and marketing research and analytics.
SESSION DETAILS
AI and Marketing Channels: Using Mini Cases to Teach Students What Lies Beyond 2020
In a globally connected and technologically-enabled marketplace, the twenty-first century marketing channels are a game changer for any business that is part of collaborative distribution relationships. The evolution of blockchain technology has led to a further transformation of value chains. An understanding of the possibilities and concerns that arise out of the application of blockchain technology to marketing distribution channels is key to success in this arena and therefore in maintaining a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Steve Wiideman
Steve Wiideman of Wiideman Consulting Group is a scientist and practitioner of local and e-commerce search engine optimization and paid-search advertising. Steve specializes in strategy, planning, and campaign oversights. He personally played a role in the inbound successes of brands such as Disney, Honda, Skechers, Applebee’s, Dole, and others. Steve works as an adjunct professor at Cal State Fullerton, UC San Diego, and Fullerton College. He teaches a variety of courses in website design, SEO, SEM, and online advertising.
SESSION DETAILS
How to Build a Comprehensive SEO Strategy
In this session, adjunct professor Steve Wiideman will guide you through various elements of teaching how to build a comprehensive strategy for SEO, including foundational technical, contextual, and off-page visibility deliverables that leave students equipped to hit the ground running. Teaching search engine optimization can feel overwhelming with constantly evolving algorithms and techniques. But creating a structured SEO strategy, not tied to unpredictable changes in how search engines serve results, can create the groundwork for a successful optimization effort without the nuances of technique.
What to Expect:
- Enterprise-level templates you can share with students
- A walk-through of each audit involved in building an SEO plan
- Sample exercises and assignments for teaching SEO
- A breakdown of what’s new in search engine optimization
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We’d love to include you on our list of potential speakers for future webinars and digital workshops.