Digital Content Creation for Social Media

Build content that performs across today’s platforms. Digital Content Creation for Social Media provides the strategic foundation and hands-on practice needed to design compelling, audience-centered content across major social channels. You’ll learn how brand voice, platform behavior and audience insights work together to shape effective campaigns and narratives. Through applied projects, case studies and industry-standard tools, you’ll produce platform-ready content and develop a clearer understanding of how metrics can strengthen your strategy. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to plan, create and measure digital content that supports your goals.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Identify the core elements of effective, audience-driven social media content
  • Align platform-specific strategies with brand identity, audience behavior and algorithmic trends
  • Produce multimedia content optimized for clarity, emotional impact and engagement
  • Use analytics to interpret performance metrics and turn insights into strategic next steps
  • Build and manage a consistent publishing workflow with content calendars and automation tools

This course is ideal for early-career marketers, content creators, small business and nonprofit professionals, and anyone responsible for producing social content that supports real goals. It’s also a strong fit for professionals looking to build practical digital marketing fluency across social, paid and CRM channels.

Topics and Skills Gained:

  • Platform affordances and constraints, brand voice and identity
  • Audience analysis, micro-content storytelling and visual composition
  • Campaign design, cross-format cohesion and message sequencing
  • Metrics, optimization, budgeting considerations and multi-channel strategy
  • Ethical and legal guidelines for digital marketing
FAST TRACK
Single Course
  • Complete Principles and Practice concurrently in 6 weeks
  • A mix of asynchronous online coursework and assessments with weekly live virtual class sessions led by faculty
  • Increased interaction between you, faculty and peer professionals during the course
  • Earn a digital badge