You've been posting to your social profiles and trying out new strategies, but you find you're spending a lot of time managing your profiles. How can you maximize your time and efficiently implement your social media strategy and manage your online community? Learn about a host of tools and techniques that can make managing your profiles easier, scalable, and efficient. From Hootsuite to Sprout Social, Google Alerts to Podio, you will not only learn the basic features of each, but how they can come together as a social media tool kit. This is an intermediate to expert class that is for the experienced social media manager who spends their time posting to social profiles and knows the mechanics and best practices of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and LinkedIn. Gwen Woltz is co-founder of Wahine Media, a local social media agency that specializes in strategically building thriving and engaged online communities for businesses (wahinemedia.com). Gwen is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the president of Social Media Club Hawaii (smchawaii.org), a finalist for Pacific Edge Magazine's Young Professional of the Year, one of Hawaii`s Top 15 Social Media Influencers in 2012, and has over 6 years of digital media and marketing experience.