How to design for social media: An up-to-date tutorial.

I'm no designer, to be sure, but the design limitations of social media seem to come up a whole lot in my life. So I decided to put together an updated set of specs and examples for how businesses can brand their presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Take a look, and definitely share your own thoughts and examples in the comments:

How to design for social media

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Big thanks to Jeremy Flint for inviting me to speak at the Internet Professionals Society of Alabama, where I debuted this presentation last week.

And a huge thanks to the brilliant Valeria Maltoni of ConversationAgent.com, whose blog post on "How social media is like sharecropping" has (obviously) stuck with me for a year and half.

David Griner is a social media strategist for Luckie and Company and contributing editor for Adweek’s blog, AdFreak.com. You can reach him by e-mail or on Twitter.

Comments

[Heather Lynne Herr / @MsHerr]

Hi David! I can't remember whose tweet referred me to this style guide (@jaybaer maybe), but I thought is was simple and straight forward. Our internal creative team at Terralever knows their stuff, but I shared it with them anyway. :)

Quick question, since Facebook announced their new Pages format, do you plan to update this? I think the only change is the profile photo dimensions (now limited to 180x540). I've been publishing on a blog series on the finer details of Facebook Page management. I'm planning to link to your style guide in the third post, but would be love to link to a newer version if/when you have it.

Thanks!