In January 2019, at the Lugano Commercial Professional Center, the second edition of the Digital & Social Media Project Operator Course will begin, the web marketing course organized by the Society of Commercial Employees (SIC) of the Canton Ticino and cured entirely by DigiTools.

Building on the success of the first edition, Digitools was once again called to organize the second edition of the prestigious web marketing professional training course with the aim of training competent communication professionals both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.

Practical exercises and project work

The practical exercises, in particular, are one of the strengths of this web marketing course. Their organization is in fact considered fundamental to provide students with operational skills that allow them to fit easily into the world of work.

Some hours of the course will therefore be dedicated to the development of a real and concrete project work, which will concern a company in the Ticino area.

In particular, the training program includes:

• the identification of the business objectives to be achieved through digital channels;
• the identification of the most appropriate digital channels and the contents to be conveyed;ù
• the planning of a publishing plan for each channel;
• the material creation of content (textual and creative);
• advertising campaigns.

More than 160 hours of training

The course will start in January 2019 to end in September 2019 and will have more than 160 hours of training, of which around a quarter dedicated to project work.

The first lessons will be aimed at providing basic notions about communication and traditional marketing, as they are preparatory to further study on the main topic of the web marketing course.

Then follow the core lessons dedicated to the in-depth study of:

• Social Media;
• writing content for the web;
• SEO;
• advertising on search engines and social networks;
• e-mail marketing;
• insight and analytics.

The operation of WordPress will also be explained, a fundamental content management system for creating and administering websites and blogs.

Finally, a module will also be dedicated to video making for the Web, as videos have become (and will increasingly be) a type of widespread and essential content in any web marketing strategy.

The course teachers

The team of teachers who will hold the lessons of the course will be formed by professionals of the sector with many years of experience behind them, so that they can transmit their value and their knowledge to the students.

The course manager and coordinator will be Paolo Ramazzotti, owner of Digitools and expert in digital marketing and web analytics.

Who is the course for?

The web marketing training course is aimed at professionals who wish to acquire important knowledge in the field of digital marketing and young people who plan their career in the digital sector.

Registrations for the course of 2019 are closed. Soon information will be provided regarding the 2019/20 course.

On 17 October 2017, the Digital Operator and Social Media Marketing course began at the Gastroticino site in Lugano.

The program consists of various training areas and intermediate audits, as well as the creation and presentation of a project work that will be presented to the examining board at the end of the course, for student assessment.

The master was organized by the Society of Commercial Employees – Ticino Section in collaboration with Digitools, GastroTicino and Netcomm Suisse, under the teaching coordination of Paolo Ramazzotti.

The course in Digital and Social Media Marketing aims to train professionals in a practical and effective way, providing expertise and autonomy in the management of online marketing projects.

The professional opportunities that the course can offer are many, both for those who want to fill the roles of project operator, and those who want to continue the training course to aspire to more strategic and managerial roles.

The topics addressed will be heterogeneous and extremely topical: from web marketing strategies (eg optimization for search engines, email marketing, advertising on search engines) to newer and more advanced tactics (eg social media management, advertising on social media, remarketing).

Alongside the traditional training program there will also be special sessions dedicated to learning the tools and strategies for making photos and videos for the web, which technique and equipment to use depending on your online communication program.

The staff of the trainers is composed of professionals of the sector who, thanks to their experience, will surely provide students with high-value contents and practical experiences and strategic indications useful for their cultural baggage.

The training course is enriched by the creation of a digital platform to which students will have access not only to download the slides of the course, but also to communicate with the teachers and make any requests for clarification or questions on the topics covered.

The course will be developed in three educational areas, called ” Design ”, ” Implement ” and ‘Analyze’ ‘at the end of which there will be intermediate audits.

Once the three phases are over, the crucial session of the course will start, the one dedicated to the Project Work, thanks to which the students will measure themselves on digital communication projects, launched by the partner companies.

The project works will be presented at the end of the final session and will constitute elements of evaluation by the examination committee.

At the end of the course the participants will take the exam to obtain the certificate of professional development of Operator of digital projects and social media marketing released by the Division of professional training of the Canton Ticino.

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