Media Library on Zoho Social

Media Library on Zoho Social

Media Library on Zoho Social is a file management space that helps you add and manage images, GIFs, and videos to use for your  social media posts. With the Media Library, you can upload pictures, videos, and GIFs from your Desktop or Cloud and maintain a repository of frequently used or key media files to use across your brand's social channels..
 
Some of the significant benefits of managing a Media Library are,
1. The time required to upload any media to your posts from the Medial Library is comparatively swifter and more efficient  as it is already pre-uploaded and can work from any device you are scheduling/publishing from.
2. More sources to choose media filed from in case you are uploading content from the Cloud Picker. 

How to upload media to the Media Library? 

You can upload media to the Media Library in two ways, from your Desktop and using the Cloud Picker.

Uploading media to the Media Library from your Desktop  

To upload media from your Desktop to the Medial Library on Zoho Social, follow the steps below.
 
1. Go to the Posts tab on your Dashboard.
2. Tap on the Media Library on the left-hand-side menu.



3. Click on the Upload Media button on the top.
4. From the drop-down, select the option as Desktop, upload media of your choice, and hit the Open button.



5. Finally, click the Attach button to include the desired media to the Media Library. 


Uploading media to the Media Library  from Cloud Picker

1. Go to the Posts tab on your dashboard.
2. Tap on the Media Library on the left-hand-side menu.
3. Click on the Upload Media button on the top.
4. From the drop-down, select Cloud Picker as your option.



Cloud Picker provides a choice of six different online cloud sources, to pick your media files from and push to the Media Library on Zoho Social. They are:
Zoho WorkDrive
Google Drive
Box
OneDrive
Dropbox
Evernote

Zoho WorkDrive 

Zoho WorkDrive is an online come offline file storage and collaboration platform for small businesses, teams, and enterprises.
 
To add media from Zoho WorkDrive, go with the steps below. 
1. Click on the first option- Zoho WorkDrive on the Cloud Picker window.
2. Click on the menu and select My Folders or any folder option you feel might have the  media you are looking for.


3. Once you decide on the media files you want to include, hit the Attach button to add it to the Media Library on Zoho Social.
1. You can attach a maximum of 5 files (images, videos, and GIFs)  in each of the folders you select to include your media.
2. You can sort your media based on the name, last modified time, and created time.
3. You can search for the media you want to include by searching the file name on the search bar.
4. You can choose to add or remove media by just clicking on the X icon on top of the file name of the media you included. 

Google Drive

Google Drive is another file storage and synchronization application developed by Google to store, synchronize, and share files across servers and devices.
 
To include media from Google Drive, follow the steps below.
1. Click on the second option- the Google Drive icon from the Cloud Picker window.
2. Select the media files from the list of all media displayed and hit the Attach button.


Box 

The Box is an application that focuses on cloud content management and file-sharing services for businesses.
 
To upload media from Box, to the Media Library on Zoho Social,
1. Click on the third option- Box on the Cloud Picker window.
2. Select the images, videos, and GIFs you want to include and hit the Attach button.


OneDrive 

OneDrive, previously known as the SkyDrive, is a file hosting and synchronization service from Microsoft.
 
To attach media to the Media Library from OneDrive,
1. Click on OneDrive from the Cloud Picker window.
2. Select the media you want to include and hit the Attach button.


Dropbox 

Dropbox is an application that lets you manage files and cloud content together with your team.
 
To add your media from Dropbox,
1. Click on the Dropbox option from the Cloud Picker window.
2. Select the folder which has the media you want to include and hit the Attach button.


Evernote

Evernote is an application where you can take instant notes and share them with your colleagues.
 
To attach media from Evernote,
1. Click on the Evernote icon on the Cloud Picker window.
2. Select the folder and include the media you want to add, and hit the Attach button.


Ensure that you authenticate each of these cloud services directly from your Publishing Window to set it up, in order to generate media from these sources. 
 

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