Improving Your Social Storytelling
The best social media posts tell a story. A great story sets vibrant brands apart from simple businesses and loyal consumers from one-time shoppers. Discover how to develop engaging social media stories to turn your customers and prospects into passionate followers and champions of your brand.
Who is this for?
- Marketing managers looking to upskill their digital advertising expertise
- Business owners looking to build their social media strategy
What you'll learn
- Be able to explain what makes a great story and why we tell stories.
- How to take advantage of storytelling frameworks and story archetypes that will supercharge social media content.
- Discover tips to help you create fantastic social media videos and posts.
Includes
Social Media
Lesson description
The best social media posts tell a story. A great story sets vibrant brands apart from simple businesses and loyal consumers from one-time shoppers. Discover how to develop engaging social media stories to turn your customers and prospects into passionate followers and champions of your brand. Watch preview
Instructors

Crystal King is a Senior Professor for HubSpot Academy with a focus on social media strategy. Crystal has led global social media and community programs for companies such as Pegasystems, Keurig, CA Technologies and Sybase. She has taught classes in writing, creativity and social media at Harvard Extension School, Boston University, Mass College of Art, UMass Boston and GrubStreet, one of the leading creative writing centers in the US. Crystal received her masters in critical and creative…

Kate Bradley Chernis
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately.AI, an AI-powered content repurposing engine and a social media management, employee advocacy and sales enablement syndication platform. Thanks to nine years of its own proprietary machine learning and natural language processing data, Lately is able to pinpoint the ideas, words and phrases that will get any target audience to click, like or share. It also learns the unique voice of any brand or individual and transfers the style of that voice…

Nicole O'Donnell
Nicole O'Donnell, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Her research explores media psychology, social influence, and the significance of role models in shaping attitudes and behavior. She is affiliated with the Media Mind Lab and the Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion.

Jenny Li Fowler
Jenny Li Fowler is the director of social media strategy at MIT. She is in charge of developing and executing Institute-wide social media initiatives and campaigns. She provides social media consultation and direction for more than 200 departments, labs, and centers; and manages the Institute’s flagship Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts. Prior to coming to MIT, Jenny was the web editor and social media manager at Harvard Kennedy School.