ATLANTA, Dec. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Media has signed with Social News Desk to bring the SND suite of social media tools to its station group. The Heartland stations will be using SND Dashboard for social publishing and analytics and will use the SND On Air display tool to put social content on TV.
"Social News Desk will act as our command center for social media. As social becomes a more crucial part of our business, we wanted to work with a team who understands the broadcast industry," said Lisa Bishop, Chief Digital Officer for Heartland.
There are now more than 900 newsrooms on five continents using SND's social media management software as part of their social strategy. Social News Desk Founder and President Kim Wilson says she's excited to see how the Heartland stations will take advantage of SND's tools. "We are thrilled to be working with Lisa and her forward-thinking team at Heartland. Our focus will be to help them put strong systems in place and grow their social audience while also working to guide them through the constantly changing world of social media strategy. And our corporate-level social media tools will be a great benefit as Heartland looks to take advantage of its scale as a group," Wilson said.
Social News Desk has just celebrated its five year anniversary and has grown exponentially in the past year. Recently acquired by Graham Media Group, Social News Desk is focused on innovation and growing its technology at a rapid pace.
In addition to utilizing Social News Desk's social publishing tool, SND Dashboard, Heartland Media stations will also be using the company's integrated social display tool, SND On Air to power the live display of social content on its TV stations.
Following its launch in Q2, Social News Desk's newest product, SND On Air, has been rapidly embraced for its ease of use and slick integration with SND's publishing tool, SND Dashboard. Stations in approximately one-quarter of the nation's 210 television DMAs are currently using SND On Air.
Social News Desk is currently rolling out its second of two new products, SND Campaigns. This new platform provides an integrated solution for sponsored social campaigns allowing streamlined launch of sponsored contests and social posts along with automated reporting on the success metrics.
Social News Desk continues to support all social media integration for its long-standing partner WSI, the leading provider of weather systems for broadcasters. The companies are currently developing more robust social tools within the WSI weather systems and will jointly roll those out in 2016.
SND is also a Facebook Global Marketing Partner with specialties in Community Management and is a Facebook Media Solutions Partner.
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