How to Use Social Media Effectively

Video Tutorials for Social Media

Social media connects people through an interactive, one-to-many dialogue that takes place on the web. Participating in the dialogue provides an opportunity for people to achieve their personal and professional goals. Learn social media with Grovo’s video tutorials, conceptual lessons, expert interviews, quiz questions and downloadable PDFs.

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“How To” Tutorials on Social Media

# Name Description
Twitter Follow People
1. What is Following and What are Followers? Learn how the Twitter social network is connected.
2. Who is Follow Worthy? Learn how you should judge other Twitter users before you decide to follow them.
3. Following Rules Understand Twitter’s rules before you start following people.
4. Understand Twitter’s Follow Recommendations Find different types of follow recommendations.
5. Browse Users by Interest Find the most popular Twitter users sorted by interest.
6. Find Personal Friends and Business Contacts Search your email contacts for Twitter users.
7. See Who Another Person Follows View the followers of other Twitter users to find new people to follow.
8. Unfollowing People Stop following people that you don’t want updates from.
9. Block Followers Stop certain people from following you or mentioning you in a tweet.
Twitter Getting Started
1. What is Twitter? Learn about Twitter, the instant social networking and communication platform.
2. How Twitter Works Understand the structure and workings of Twitter.
3. Why is Twitter Valuable? Learn what people use Twitter for, and some of the reasons it has garnered over 200 million users.
4. Choose a Username Decide on a unique Twitter handle that will also be your URL.
5. Understand the Home Layout Navigate the two panel layout of Twitter.
6. Understand the Profile Layout Learn where everything is located on your Profile for more efficient use.
7. Adjust Account & Notification Settings Customize your Twitter settings.
8. To Protect or Not to Protect Tweets Weigh the pros and cons of protecting your tweets.
9. Customize Profile Make your Twitter profile your own with custom templates and colors.
10. Create a Custom Background Make your Twitter profile truly unique with a custom made background.
11. What are Direct Messages? Learn what Twitter Messages are and where you can find them.
12. Send a Direct Message Message one of your followers via a private message.

Animated Concepts and Strategy

# Name Description
Social Media
1. History of Social Media Gain an understanding of the history of social media.
2. Reach Harness the efficiency of social media to communicate with a wide audience of potential customers.
3. Targeting Target the people most likely to become customers and evangelize your business.
4. Desire Get people to want to do business with you by creating a positive impression online.
5. Tracking Keep track of consumer opinions and of how well your social media pages are performing.
6. Integration Make your organization more tightly integrated.
7. Social Media Management Set up internal structure and process for governing social media.
8. Create Social Media Policy Establish protocols and methods to standardize handling of Social Channels.
9. Social Media Design Strategy Preserve your branding across social media channels.
10. Social Media Response Plan Nail down a plan of action for responding to negative comments.
Social Media Professional Etiquette
1. What is Social Media Etiquette? Learn what social media etiquette is and why you should be concerned with it.
2. Etiquette of Privacy Settings Adhere to standard privacy settings so that your connections can maintain their desired privacy.
3. Tagging Etiquette Learn the best practices that you should follow when tagging someone.
4. Cross Posting Etiquette Understand why you shouldn’t share everything on all social networks.
5. Control Update Frequency Learn how to find the balance in post frequency.
6. Content Best Practices Understand best practices for publishing posts via social networks.

Tips, Tricks and Techniques from Experts

# Name
Andy Dunn - Vertical Retail and Social Media
1. Trailer: Retail and Social Media
2. Building a Brand Online
3. Customer Acquisition
4. The World of Online Shopping
5. Differentiation
6. Leveraging Social Media
7. Social Media Successes and Failures
8. Connection and Authenticity
9. The Evolution of Commerce
Joshua Waldman - Ultimate Guide to Personal Branding
1. Ultimate Guide to Personal Branding
2. Personal Branding, Defined
3. Importance of Introspection
4. What is a Professional Profile?
5. Compelling Headlines
6. Effective Profile Summaries
7. Eye-catching Profiles
8. Consistency Across Platforms
9. Offline Networking
10. Network Reach
11. Online Networking
12. Ask for an Introduction
13. LinkedIn Groups
14. The 7 Deadly Sins
David Tisch - Building a Successful Startup
1. Building a Successful Startup
2. Becoming an Angel
3. Building the Accelerator
4. Choosing Companies
5. What Makes a Winning Team
6. Mentorship and Community
7. The NY Tech Scene
8. "The Normals"
9. Using Twitter
10. Opportunity in Social Media
11. Being More Productive
12. TechStars on Bloomberg
Mike Edelhart - The PC and Social Revolutions
1. The PC and Social Revolutions
2. Recognizing a Revolution
3. The PC Revolution
4. Steve Jobs' Disruption
5. Young Jobs & Gates
6. The Social Revolution
7. Social's Disruption of Traditional Media
8. The Nuclear Winter of Social
Mike Edelhart - Creating Value and Attracting Capital
1. Creating Value & Attracting Capital
2. Competitive Advantage
3. Defining a Purpose
4. Understanding the Market
5. How I Choose Investments
6. Selecting Advisors
7. Board Construction
8. Deal Terms
9. 49er Style Leadership
Jordan Franklin - Facebook Split Testing for Success
1. Facebook Split Testing For Success
2. The Social Effect
3. Who Should Advertise
4. Facebook v. AdWords
5. Defining Goals & Target Audience
6. Value of Split Testing
7. Split Testing Strategy
8. Allocating Budget
9. Long Term Split Testing
10. Cross Channel Audience Segmentation
11. The Future of Facebook Ads
Jordan Franklin - Fighting Ad Fatigue and Leveraging Fans
1. Fighting Ad Fatigue & Leveraging Fans
2. Identifying Ad Fatigue
3. Facebook's Quality Score
4. Freshen Up Your Ads
5. Leveraging Sponsored Stories
6. Converting Fans
7. Measuring Social Impact
8. Targeting Friends of Fans
Tom Critchlow - Master Video SEO
1. Master Video SEO
2. Why is Video Valuable?
3. Creating Videos
4. Video Keyword Research
5. YouTube v. Self Hosting
6. YouTube SEO Groundwork
7. Advanced YouTube SEO
8. Self Hosting SEO Groundwork
9. Advanced Self Hosting SEO
10. Easiest Distribution Channels
11. Video Linkbuilding
12. Link Outreach
13. Mastering Video Analytics
14. Video SEO Case Studies
Greg Rivera - Viral Branding
1. Making a Viral Brand
2. Mishka History
3. Creating A Web Presence
4. Moving From Wholesale to Direct Sales
5. Cult Following
6. The Power of E-Commerce
7. Driving Traffic Through Social Media
8. Dealing With Negative Comments
9. Social Media Editorial Calendar
10. Staying True to Your Brand