How Do I Use the Content Calendar to Manage Social Posts?

How Do I Use the Content Calendar to Manage Social Posts?

This Article Is For:

  • All users with 'Social' permissions
  • This is applicable to: All Themes

See what social posts are currently going out or are coming up next at a glance. Click on a social post to see its details including time, author, social network and description.

These instructions are a general overview of the Content Calendar. For specific questions such as 'editing a post' please see the related articles section.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Log In at: Admin.socastsrm.com
  2. Go to Social > Social Posts > Content Calendar
  3. You will be directed to a calendar showing the current week



  4. The calendar can also be viewed by month
  5. The content calendar is color coded based on the social network selected

  6. You can identify which networks have been chosen by either:
    1. Hovering over the color
    2. Or using the guide at the bottom
  7. You can also view content by ‘list’. (This view is optimized for mobile devices)

  8. List view will allow you to see:
    1. Any posts made for the date selected
    2. Which Social networks posts were made for
    3. Who made the posts
    4. The option to ‘post again
      1. If you click ‘Post Again’, a publish ‘prompt’ window will appear
      2. It will ask you to either confirm you want to publish the post again, or cancel
    5. Failed post messages at the top of the content calendar
      1. You can re-send failed messages by clicking on the ‘Edit and Re-Post’ button
  9. You can also use the ‘search bar’ to search by user, or topic/word from a post.

  10. It will show you all authors with posts related to your search
  11. You can also use the ‘Group’ dropdown, to group posts by:
    1. Social profile
    2. Content type
    3. Campaign
    4. Author
  12. By clicking on a future date/time the sidebar social publisher modal will pop up allowing you to create a new post for that date/time.

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