How to use Buffer By Rowena Caro 2015 1
Tutorial on How to Use Buffer
Sep 25, 2015
This is a step by step tutorial on how to use a social media app called Buffer. Buffer has a lot of great features here are some of it;
1. Manage Multiple Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn Accounts
2. Set Up Your Own Updating Schedule
3. Easily Add Updates to Your Buffer
4. Use it Everywhere with Apps, Extensions, and Extras
5. Use Buffer on Your Smartphone
6. See What Tweets Get the Most Engagement
1. Manage Multiple Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn Accounts
2. Set Up Your Own Updating Schedule
3. Easily Add Updates to Your Buffer
4. Use it Everywhere with Apps, Extensions, and Extras
5. Use Buffer on Your Smartphone
6. See What Tweets Get the Most Engagement
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How to use Buffer
By Rowena Caro2015
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What is buffer?
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A new and smarter way to share what you want to share on Social Media.
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What it does ?
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Simple
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You add updates to your Buffer queue and it will be posted for you well spaced out over the day - and at the best times.
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Its like your magic box you can use anytime to fill with great Tweets, Facebook stories or LinkedIn updates.
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Just drop them in and you dont have to ever worry about when it will be posted, its all taken care of by Buffer for you.
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Go to www.buffer.com
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This will appear10
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Click here11
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You can connect your different social media accounts
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Lets try to connect using my twitter account
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This will appear14
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Enter your username
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Then Click Authorize app16
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Click Sign In to authorize Buffer to use account
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Twitter account is now connected
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Add your 2nd social media account. Click Facebook
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Enter your Facebook Login details
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Click Login
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This will appear22
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You will be asked to choose between
your facebook profile or page.
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For this exercise, I click a page that I manage
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My FB page is now connected to buffer
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You can now Set up Schedule. Click Set up my Schedule
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Your time zone confirmation will appear
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Click on Timezone to schedule your post on the right time zone
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Choose the Time Format you want
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Then, Click Continue to Next Step
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This will appear
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For your fb account choose how many times per day
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For now I Choose 1 time per day
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Then, Click every day of the week
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For twitter you can choose 3 times per day on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun only
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Then Click Continue
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This will appear
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Click Lets go!
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This will appear
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Enter your email address, then Click Continue
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This will appear, Then Click Go to my Dashboard
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Buffer Dashboard Looks like this
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To Start sharing click on the dashboard
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Then Click Add to Queue
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This will now appear on the dashboard
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To attach a photo to the post
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After typing your message, Click on the Camera icon to attach a photo
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Your documents will appear
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Click the photo you want to attach on that post
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Click Open50
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Photo is now added to your post
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Click Add to Queue52
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Here are the 2 post we added in buffer.
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Another way to post in buffer is from the
web.
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While surfing in the internet and you found
something worth sharing in your social
media account.
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Like this blog56
http://mytrulyrichclubexperiencephilippines.blogspot.com/2013/03/powertalk-find-your-emotional-why.html -
Click on the Buffer icon on the upper right of the
browser
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This will appear58
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Click on the text box to edit or add the message on the post
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Post text edited60
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Click Add to Queue61
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Please note that there is a number beside the Add to Queue
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The Add to Queue box is in blue
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That is the allowed number of
characters left to be added to the post
text.
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If the text in the post exceed the number of characters allowed by buffer
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The number had a negative sign (-) and the Add to Queue box is no longer clickable
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Do not exceed the number of post character
Exceed the number of post character
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After editing the post characters, Click Add to Queue
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It appears now on your dashboard
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This will appear on your facebook Timeline
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However, there are post you want only to
appear on your facebook but not on
Twitter
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2 ways of doing it
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Click Power Scheduler
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This will appear
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Choose which social media you want to share this link
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If you choose facebook only, Click the Twitter icon
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Twitter icon disappear78
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If you choose the post to appear only on your twitter account, Click
Facebook icon
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Facebook icon disappear
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Click on the Social media account you do not want the post to appear
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If you want the post to appear only on facebook Click the Twitter icon
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This happens
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If you want the post to appear only in twitter, Click the Facebook icon
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This happens
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Schedule is one of the feature of Buffer
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Click Add a Posting Time 88
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2nd Schedule will appear
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Click the Drop down menu to edit the specific time you want the post/tweet to
appear on your timeline
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Another feature of Buffer dashboard is the Analytics
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Click Analytics92
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This will appear93
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These are the features of Analytics
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You can see the analytics of your latest post
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If you avail for Buffer Awesome Plan
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You can see your most clicked, retweeted and likes posts
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Sort by least-liked posts to fine-tune your posting strategy
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Order your posts by type: images, link posts, quotes, etc.
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Buffer will definitely increase your productivity in
enhancing your social media presence.
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Its your turn: have fun and be MORE
Productive.
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