SoclPie: Add Timeline
- 1. SoclPie: Timeline Overview The timeline feature lets you broadcast content across all social networks for a brand i.e. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn in easy steps. There are multiple ways of adding content to the queue that is then use for publishing this content to these networks. Not only that, it also lets you to set specific frequencies for this content publishing i.e. each network has the ability to post content every x hours. The process of managing timelines for a brand is as below: Click on the “Timeline” option from the top menu: When no posts are scheduled, the timeline screen will look as below: Please ensure that you have set the timezone correctly before adding content to your timeline. You can do it by editing the brand. Set Time Frequency: Next step is to set the timeline frequency. This allows you to set a gap between two posts for specific social network. The added content would be broadcasted based on this frequency. Click on the “Edit” button from the frequency block displayed in the right column.
- 3. Schedule Content There are multiple ways of scheduling content for your social networks: a. Add manual posts b. Use RSS Feeds through our Manage Feeds section c. SOCL-IT browser extension d. Google Reader You can use any of these methods for scheduling your content. Add Manual Posts This feature is useful if you wish to manually schedule some personal or brand specific messages to broadcast them at particular time. Click on the “Add Post” button from brand dashboard or from the timeline landing page as shown below: This would launch a pop-up that you can use to enter the post manually. a. Enter the post title b. Add a target URL c. Schedule this post by selecting the date and time d. Choose social networks where you wish to post this content. e. Click on Save.
- 4. Manage Feeds The Manage feeds option lets you schedule content through certain RSS or atom feeds. If you are a blogger and wish to schedule your content, or if you have a list of content providers that share content relevant to your brand then manage feeds could help you do this on the fly. Click on the “Manage Feeds” link left menu: This would take you to the “Manage Feeds” landing screen. Click on the “Add Feeds” button from this screen: Clicking on “Add Feeds” would open up a pop-up where you can enter the feed title and the RSS feed URL and click on Submit to proceed.
- 5. Clicking on save will add this post to your timeline and it would be displayed on the timeline landing page The two options of scheduling posts from these two resources are: Sequential Import: The Sequential import option will queue all RSS items in a queue and these posts would be broadcasted in a sequence based on the date of posting. Random Import: The random import option will actually shuffle all RSS items and then these feed items would be queued for broadcasting. Both these options would let user to post content across all three social networks based on the frequency settings done by the user.
- 6. SOCL-IT Socl-IT is a browser widget that lets you add content to your timeline without having to go trough the hassle of logging into the website. All you need to do is to add this widget to your browser and click on it as and when you see some content relevant to your product. 1. Add Widget to your Browser: To add widget to your browser, just drag the brand button to your browser as shown below: 2. Now to share any article/blog, simply click on the widget button from browser toolbar to launch the widget. 3. Choose the networks that you wish to schedule the content on and click on Queue it button. This will append this post at the end of your timeline queue. The post time would be decided based on the timeline settings for each network chosen.
- 7. Google Reader The listing would also display the schedule when these posts would be broadcasted.