Content Creation University
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IG-402 Instagram track Year Four Instagram Track

Stories, DMs & Ephemeral Strategy

Daily engagement systems: polls, questions, close friends, DM funnels, story arcs across a day.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
3h 42m
Attendance minimum
1h 51m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Snapchat and the SnapMap: Collective, Ephemeral Stories about Public Events with Jill Rettberg Ephemerality as a media form: what a story that disappears in 24 hours actually is Brown University 1 Ivy League 57 min
  2. Natalie Bazarova: Communicating self Self-disclosure: why people share personal things and what they get back School of Information (University of Michigan) 2 Peer institution 41 min
  3. danah boyd on Teen Privacy Strategies in Networked Publics Audience segmentation and privacy strategy — the logic behind Close Friends The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard) 1 Ivy League 12 min
  4. 100. Shut Up! How to Communicate Better by Talking Less Talking less and asking more: the discipline behind polls, question stickers and DM replies Stanford Graduate School of Business 2 Peer institution 20 min
  5. How Loyalty Programs Drive Customer Value, Relationships, and Business Growth From transactions to relationships: differentiated treatment and customer value Knowledge at Wharton 1 Ivy League 14 min
  6. MBA Reunion Weekend 2015: Steps for Nurturing Identity Loyalty Identity loyalty: making an audience feel the account is part of who they are Wharton School 1 Ivy League 19 min
  7. Customer Experience in the Digital Age Designing the conversation: experience across touchpoints, including the inbox Columbia Business School 1 Ivy League 30 min
  8. Practicum · working creator how I gained 950,000 Instagram followers (copy this system) A working Instagram creator walks through the DM funnel he actually runs, demonstrating Lecture 7's single-journey principle and Lecture 5's shift from transactions to a relationship model on a real account Matt Gray P Practitioner 29 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Matt Gray — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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