Social Media Workshop Offered April 22

Franny Knight will lead a Social Media Workshop on Tuesday, April 22 at the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce from 8 to 11 am. The presentation will be geared towards small business owners and non-profit organizations and will include ways to incorporate social media into the business marketing strategy.

Knight will also speak over lunch, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, at Port Cape Girardeau for Tri-State Advertising & Marketing Professional's monthly meeting, sponsored by University of Missouri Small Business Technology Development Center of Cape Girardeau County.

Registration is required for both events. Workshop registration is $50 ($35 for Tri-State AMP members) and lunch registration is $15 ($12 for Tri-State AMP member or $10 for current students). The meal is included with the lunch program fee. Registration is online at http://tristateamp.eventbrite.com.

Knight has been teaching Social Media Marketing, Strategies, and Policies across the country for the last five years to thousands of participants. She adds into these workshops her brand of creativity, creative marketing and generational knowledge to really make it valuable. Prior to Social Media Marketing, she conducted Creative Marketing & Branding, Creative Leadership, Creative Teams and Creative Training Programs for ten years. Knight has a Master's Degree in Psychology from Wichita State University with a minor in Marketing.

For more information, please visit www.tristateamp.com or call Richard Proffer, Tri-State AMP programming committee member at 573-243-3581.

Tri-State Advertising & Marketing Professionals is a non-profit organization made up of communications professionals in the Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Paducah, Ky.; and Harrisburg, Ill., areas. The organization seeks to provide and promote a better understanding of the functions and value of advertising; apply the skills, creativity and energy of the advertising industry in solving social problems; advance the standards of advertising through voluntary self-regulation; and promote good fellowship and free exchange of ideas. Tri-State AMP is affiliated with the American Advertising Federation and the Ninth District, AAF.