Communications Corner | August Recap

Welcome to the Communications Corner ㅡ a once a month recap blog post sharing what NCI’s communications team has been up to!

August was another busy month with various events on top of our everyday communication and marketing tasks. Let’s recap this month’s events:

Webinars

Our team helps market, run, and recap NCI’s various webinars hosted several times each month! Learn more about each webinar from this month by reading our blog posts:

Webinars keep our team busy as we prepare them from start to finish each week. Before each webinar, our team creates the graphics, website content, Zoom registration and links for panelists and attendees, registration and reminder emails, social media posts, as well as taking time to do run-throughs with each speaker. During the webinar, at least one person from our team attends as host to ensure everything runs smoothly and records for people to watch after. Once the webinar is finished, we upload each recording and send out emails to those who were not able to attend live, and finish with a blog post. 

& More!

Between the busyness of webinars, courses, and traveling…our team has also been hard at work editing videos, writing press releases, blog posts, planning, & more for upcoming events.

Video production is a huge part of what our communications team works on, so check out our blog post to learn more! Our videos have recently promoted our upcoming Grain Procurement Management for Importers Course, created video recaps of past courses, and also promoted NCI’s Next 5 Years Conference coming up in September. 

The month of August was busy for NCI! We hosted  3 in-person courses last month, an INTSOY (Introduction to Soybean), a custom Pasta Production from Multiple U.S. Wheat Classes, and a DDGS Procurement course. For all of these courses, our team created marketing materials for participants as well as spent time following along to capture pictures and videos for social media and promotional material. 

By the Numbers

This last month, our communications team:

  • Created 8 videos

  • Helped promote, run, & recap 5 different webinars

  • Promoted and assisted with 3 in-person courses

  • Posted 15 social media posts 

That’s all for this month’s recap! Check back in next month to see what else we’ve been up to!

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