The Definitive Guide to Optimizing Your Social Profile
Semester 2, Online Class (13 Credits)BZB201 Module 8: Email
Self PacedBZB201 8:1 Optimizing your online profile
BZB201 8:1 Linkedin Made Easy with Ted Prodromou
BZB201 8:1 Social Noise or Engaging Voice
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BZB201 8:2 Iconography and Use of Fonts
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BZB201 8:3 What Color is That?
BZB201 8:4 Holly Homer's Facebook Engagement Strategy
BZB201 8:5 Driving Traffic with Pinterest
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BZB201 8:6 Driving Traffic with Pinterest 2
Tammillee helps us understand how to use Pinterest to drive traffic.
BZB201 8:7 Driving Traffic with Pinterest 2Driving alternative Social Media.
BZB201 8:8 Facebook Reach Tip
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BZB201 8:9 Facebook Insights Tip
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BZB201 8:9 Facebook Posting Tip
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BZB201 8:10 Understanding the Talking About Numbers
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BZB201 8:11 Optimizing Post Times
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BZB201 8:11 Embedding Facebook Posts
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BZB201 8:12 Adding a Facebook Like Box
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BZB201 8:13 Help A Reporter Out Tutorial
Help A Reporter Out is a great concept in every way. It's a place where reporters who need experts for the stories they are writing AND experts who need exposure meet. A perfect place for bloggers.
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BZB201 8:14 Quora Tutorial
Quora is what WikiAnswers and Yahoo Answers should have been. Social, Smart, Traffic, Profiles, Links. . . it has everything and is a huge traffic driver.
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BZB201 8:16 Klout Tutorial
In the beginning Klout seemed like a joke and people got offended because they were scored. But measurement is a necessary tool in analysis. The most interesting question is what do others feel are good scoring measurements.
In any case, Klout has a place. You might as well understand what it is and how to use it.
BZB201 8:17 Paper.li Tutorial
Getting Comfortable with Paper.li with Kelly Hungerford, Community Director at Paper.li
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BZB201 8:18 StumbleUpon Tutorial
In our series called "getting comfortable with. . . "we explore Stumbleupon today. What is it? How does it work? How do we use it? AND most importanly WHY. . . One thing I love about these calls is if you decide it is not for you. . . you'll never have to wonder. You've got the knowledge.
BZB201 8:19 Slideshare Tutorial
Slideshare gets 60 million visitors per month and is owned by LinkedIn. Google likes it, social media likes it, it is embeddable. . . it is fantastic. Let's start using it.
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BZB201 8:20 Twitter Tutorial
In our series called "getting comfortable with. . . "we explore Twitter today. What is it? How does it work? How do we use it? AND most importanly WHY. . . One thing I love about these calls is if you decide it is not for you. . . you'll never have to wonder. You've got the knowledge.
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BZB201 8:21 Reddit Tutorial
Reddit is a juggernaut of traffic on the internet, millions of page views per day and often times the source of content going viral. So let's get comfortable with using it so we can be part of the experience.
The questions left open in the video I discuss below.
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Some additional things you should know . . . the people of Reddit have their own language. So you'll need to know these things in order to really grasp what people are saying:
To start with that whole Reddit Gold thing is a membership portion of the site. I read it here and think that unless you want to become a professional Reddit-er . . you don't need it. More info here ABOUT REDDIT GOLD
/s | Sarcasm |
Ermahgerd | Oh My God! |
OP | Original Poster as in the person who started the thread. Often times you'll see the phrase “OP will surely deliver,” which is a sarcastic request that the original user post a follow-up. |
AMA & AMAA | Ask Me Anything, Ask Me Almost Anything. |
IAMA | Short for I Am A . . to which there is a subreddit r/iama where people start Q&A sessions |
OC | Original Content |
cakeday | Your Reddit birthday, anniversary of when you joined |
DAE | Does Anyone Else |
DM;HS: | Doesn’t Matter; Had Sex. A flippant response when it is discovered the writer ended up having sex as part of the story |
ELI5 | Explain Like I’m Five |
FTFY | Fixed That For You |
IANAL | I Am Not A Lawyer |
IIRC | If I Recall Correctly |
ITT | In This Thread or In This Topic. |
karmawhore | A person who is accused of posting just for the karma |
Repost | The cardinal sin on Reddit. Repost means the content had been posted previously and is not OC |
NSFW/NSFL | Not Safe For Work/Not Safe For Life . . . either means nudity or gore |
TIL | Today I Learned |
TL;DR | Too Long; Didn’t Read. |
x-post | X-post means the thread was posted in another subreddit and is usually followed by the mentioned subreddit |