Enrolling in the run for the best social media marketer. How did that work out for you? I, for one, found that there are so many things that beat the eye of a first time user. Even after months of Facebook training I couldn't possibly know all the in's and out's of the network. Yes, it's kinda boring trying to find everything out by yourself. That's why cheat sheets were invented.

It's not all laziness, we both know how rapidly everything changes online. Gotta stay on top of things, fast. And we're not in high-school anymore, nowadays it's quite advisable to cheat. That is, if cheating means getting compressed information, fast and easy.

So, here they are. Been searching the web for the most effective ones: the essential cheat sheets for social media.

1. Facebook max sizes

-Upload a cover photo with the max following dimensions width: 851px/ height: 315px

-Your profile picture can have 180 px. Careful, it's automatically scaled down to width 32px and a height of 32px. The best advice is to choose your company's logo
-Uploaded images: maximum size of the uploaded image : width: 2048px/ height: 2048px

-Your Facebook status update can have a length of 63,206 . Comments are unlimited

-For video publishing, respect the max size of 1024 MB(20 min in duration)

2.Twitter symbolics

@ – is the tool used to talk to people. In a message it either directs it to or refers to a person

RT – stands for ReTweet. Use it to re-share content others have posted

# - highlights a topic that the tweet belongs to. Pressing on it, you can see al the tweets referring to the specific topic, usually positioned at the end of the tweet

Fav – use this little star to keep tweets that are your favorites

DM – private Direct Message between 2 users

I personally also liked the LinkedIn Boot camp, a fast and funny first training session about LinkedIn.

More on general social media cheat sheets and shortcuts, in our next blog.