Stephanie Smith

Social Media and Design Coordinator Communications, Marketing & External Relations University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Address: HLH 311D
Lincoln, NE 68588-0405
Phone: 402-472-5265 On-campus 2-5265
Email: ssmith152@unl.edu
Social Media

Stephanie Smith is the social media and design coordinator for the Nebraska College of Business Communications, Marketing and External Relations team. She enjoys telling the stories of great things the students, faculty, staff and programs do to innovate and improve business and society. She creates and manages content for the College of Business social media accounts and 6,000-13,000 followers on each, as well as leads interns, writes articles, designs marketing materials, collaborates with university partners and manages content displaying on the college's 50+ digital signs.

Before joining Nebraska Business in 2017, she worked in newspaper editing, writing and page design, nonprofit marketing and grant writing, and website and social media content management for organizations around the world. Her employers included the Lincoln Journal Star in Nebraska, Rapid City Journal Media Group in South Dakota, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida, and Stars and Stripes in Washington, D.C., Germany and Japan.

Raised in an Air Force family, she lived all over the U.S. and in Germany. She graduated from Papillion LaVista High School in Nebraska, studied her freshman year at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, S.D., then transferred to South Dakota State University. The first in her family to attain a degree, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from SDSU.

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Education

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D.
Minors in German and Sociology

Areas of Expertise

Social Media Content and Management
News Writing
Graphic Design

Appointments

Social Media and Design Coordinator, 2017-present

CliftonStrengths ®

Developer
Maximizer
Individualization
Empathy
Relator

Scholarship

Selected Stories Written

"Nebraska Business Honors Outstanding Alumni and Leaders," Nebraska College of Business, April 2024
"Alumni Revisit Nebraska at Oxford Program 33 Years Later," Nebraska College of Business, October 2022
"Business Learning Communities Provide Early Support System," Nebraska College of Business, August 2022

Selected College of Business Presentations

"Digital Signage 101" for staff
"Instagram 101 and 201" for faculty, staff and students

Service

Internal Service

Digital Marketing and AI (MRKT 441) class partner, 2026

University of Nebraska System Digital Sign Committee, 2023-present

College of Business Student of Month Committee, 2022-present

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Visual Communicators Network, 2017-present

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Social Media Partner, 2017-present

Philanthropy and Leadership (MNGT 411) social media best practices partner, 2017-Present

External Service

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards Judge in design categories for print design, publications and specialty projects, 2020, 2022, 2023

Noteworthy

Individual Awards

Dean's Coin, 2020, 2021

Team Awards

CASE District VI Gold Award, Best Uses of Social Media, 2020, 2019
American Marketing Association-Lincoln Chapter, Prism Awards: Nonprofit Marketing and In-Person Event Nonprofit Marketing, 2023