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    How to Post Curated Content Across Multiple Social Platforms

    by Kristi Hines / December 2, 2015

    social media how toDo you manage several social media accounts?

    Are you having trouble keeping them all active with fresh content?

    Content curation plays a key role in keeping your social profiles and pages active, and your audience satisfied.

    In this post I’ll show you how to quickly and efficiently post curated content across all of your social networks using Sendible with Feedly and Zapier.

    publish curated content with sendible, feedly and zapier
    Discover how to post curated content on multiple platforms with Sendible, Feedly and Zapier.

    Why Sendible?

    There are several reasons why I chose Sendible out of all of the other social media management tools available.

    First, you’re able to create multiple queues to ensure that updates go out at the best times for your audience. That means you can add the content you want to curate to Sendible, and Sendible will post it to your accounts based on the queue you set up.

    Second, it connects to a lot of different platforms.

    • Social Networks: Facebook (profiles, pages and your own groups), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn (profiles and pages), Google+ (pages only, there’s a hack to get your profile updated too), Instagram (via email), Foursquare (page) and Plurk (a microblogging site popular in India).
    • Blogs: WordPress (.com and self-hosted), Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, MovableType, Ning and Metaweblog.
    • Bookmarking Sites: Delicious, Diigo, Instapaper and Pocket.
    • Misc: Flickr, Scribd and SlideShare.

    Each connected account counts as a service. Pricing for automation starts at $39 per month, based on the number of services.

    Third, you can add RSS feeds to your account. Curate content within Sendible or set up auto posts from your feeds (each of these counts as another service). Auto posts can be set up to publish immediately, save as a draft or add to a queue.

    Finally, it allows you to see analytics from your updates published through Sendible, monitor social mentions, get updates about activity from some of the top social networks in an inbox, engage with tweets (retweet, reply, favorite, etc.), invite team members, assign tasks and much more.

    So effectively, Sendible is everything you want from a lot of other tools all rolled into one. I like it because of the sheer number of networks you can connect to beyond the standard Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

    Here’s a detailed guide to how to use Sendible to curate content across multiple channels.

    #1: Connect Sendible to Your Social Media Accounts

    To get started, sign up for a Sendible account. Then, choose the social media accounts, blogs, bookmarking and other networks you want to update from Sendible.

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    add account to sendible
    After you sign up for Sendible, add your social media accounts, blogs and other platforms to your account.

    Sendible will prompt you for the information and authorization it needs for each network.

    authorize account access to sendible
    Authorize Sendible to access each account.

    If you want to add more than one specific type of account (like Twitter), log out of the first account and then log into the next account you want to add to Sendible. Then use the Add button for Twitter in Sendible to authorize it.

    After you add the accounts you’d like to update using Sendible, create queues (schedules) for posting updates to them. To do this, go to the Engage menu, click on Queued in the left sidebar and then click the New Queue button.

    create queues in sendible
    Configure new queues for your updates.

    Next, set up an RSS feed to auto post in Sendible. I have two set up in my own Sendible account: one is for posts I write and one is for my Feedly favorites. (This is the content I curate to all of my profiles. More on Feedly in Steps #2 and #3.)

    To set up an RSS feed to auto post to your queue, first grab the RSS feed for your blog. If you have trouble finding it, I suggest using Google Chrome and the RSS Subscription Extension. This will help you find it using an icon in your address browser bar.

    finding rss feeds
    Add the RSS Subscription Extension to Google Chrome. Click the icon to find your RSS feed.

    Copy the RSS feed URL and add it to Sendible. Go to Monitor, the Feeds menu and click the New Feed button.

    add rss to sendible
    Add a new RSS feed to Sendible through the Monitor section.

    To set up the auto post, click on the feed in the right sidebar and then click the New Auto Post button.

    add auto post sendible
    Click the New Auto Post button to set up an auto post for a specific RSS feed.

    From here, you need to configure the auto post. Choose the accounts where you want to send the new RSS feed items.

    set up rss receipt in sendible
    In RSS Auto Poster, select the accounts you want to receive the RSS feed items.

    Next, choose the frequency you would like to check the RSS feed. Select Queued if you want to auto post new feed items to your queue. Also, select the queue you would like to use if you’ve set up more than one queue in Sendible.

    add rss to sendible queue
    Add the new RSS feed items to your Sendible queue. Make sure to check all settings.

    Configure advanced options to customize the updates sent to your accounts. Be sure to select New Posts Only under the Advanced Options to ensure that Sendible doesn‘t post older updates to your accounts.

    configure auto post feature
    Configure advanced auto post options such as types of posts to share, whether Sendible should repeat posts (it shouldn’t), posting sequence and more.

    Once you finish configuring your auto post, save it to make it active.

    From here, you have a couple of options. Continue to add new RSS feeds to Sendible and set them up to auto post to your queue to curate content to all of your accounts. However, since Sendible counts each auto post as a service, you may want to follow the next two steps so that you only have one service (one RSS feed and one auto post) for the content you want to curate, instead of dozens.

    Alternatively, you could add RSS feeds to Sendible and go into Sendible to add them to your queue each day. But the following steps make everything a little simpler in terms of overall workflow once they’re set up.

    #2: Subscribe to Blogs Using Feedly

    Create a Feedly account and purchase the Pro option ($65 per year) to use the integration in the next step. Then start subscribing to the blogs from which you want to curate content. Use the search box on Feedly to do this or grab RSS feeds from your favorite websites and add them using the Add Content button.

    blog posts displayed in feedly
    Add your favorite blogs from which to curate content on Feedly.

    Again, you may want to use the RSS Subscription Extension (mentioned above) on Google Chrome to help you find RSS feeds for your favorite sites. A lot of blogs and publications don’t publicize their RSS feed links to get you to opt into their email list instead.

    After you add your favorite blogs, mark at least three posts as favorites using the bookmark link next to the post titles.

    favorite blog posts in feedly
    Mark posts as favorites to save for later in Feedly.

    You can also bookmark favorites in the Feedly mobile app.

    save blog posts in feedly mobile app
    You may also save articles in the iPhone Feedly app.

    #3: Set Up Zapier to Curate Handpicked Content

    Here comes the fun part.

    Set up an account on Zapier and sign up for a free trial of the Basic plan ($20 per month). This service allows you to create custom tasks (known as zaps) between one or more services. You’ll want to create a task that sends any posts you save for later inside Feedly to a custom RSS feed, created by Zapier. You’ll then add that custom RSS feed to Sendible to auto post your curated content to your queue.

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    Note: If you don’t want to handpick the posts, just create a task that sends any new posts in Feedly to a custom RSS feed, created by Zapier. Then add that RSS feed to Sendible to auto post for your curated content. Depending on what sites you choose, there could be a lot of posts added to your queue, since some sites like to publish 10 or more posts per day.

    The “save-for-later” way allows you to handpick your curated content, and it really only takes a little time per day: 15 minutes or less if you just go by headlines.

    Inside Zapier, click on the Make a Zap link and configure your task.

    To start, select Feedly as the trigger and RSS by Zapier as the action. Choose New Article Saved for Later to handpick your curated content, or choose New Article in Category to have any new RSS feed items from all of your subscriptions added to your custom RSS feed.

    choose a trigger action in zapier
    Choose a trigger and action to set up a task to add new articles saved for later in Feedly to a custom RSS feed.

    Next, connect your Feedly account.

    connect feedly to zapier
    Connect your Feedly account and configure account options.

    If you use the option to add any New Article in Category, you will choose the folder in Feedly with the RSS feeds from sites where you want to curate content. You may also want to use the custom filter option to include or exclude content with specific keywords in the title.

    Next, configure the custom RSS feed itself, using fields from Feedly and the Insert Fields button. Add a keyword into the custom RSS feed URL, and use the button to copy it to your clipboard.

    configuring custom rss feed
    Configure the custom RSS feed. Use fields from Feedly and the Insert Fields button.

    I only use the above fields that are required: Title, Source URL (the clean link to the post), Content (the Summary from Feedly) and the Pub Date near the end.

    adding published date to custom rss feed
    Insert the Published Date field when configuring fields on the custom RSS feed.

    Next, test your task. If all goes well, you’ll see the following.

    testing custom rss feed
    Test your new custom RSS feed to see if everything is working correctly.

    Click each Test Zap. If successful, you will get a Success message. Once everything tests well, name your task and save it.

    Now, go back to Sendible to set up a new RSS feed with the custom RSS feed URL you copied from Zapier.

    adding custom rss feed to sendible
    Add the custom RSS feed from Zapier to Sendible.

    Then, set up the auto post for that feed.

    set up auto post for custom rss feed in sendible
    Set up the auto post for your custom RSS feed from Zapier in Sendible.

    Posting to Google+

    Since you can’t schedule Sendible to post to Google+ profiles, the way around it is to create a task in Zapier that will email you when a link is posted to another one of the networks you set up.

    For this task, I set Facebook Pages as the trigger and Gmail as the action.

    set up a reminder to post task
    As a reminder to post to Google+, set up a task to send an email when a new link is posted to your Facebook page.

    To do this, connect your Facebook and Gmail accounts and select the Facebook page you want to use.

    configure task options
    Configure the Facebook and Gmail account options.

    Then, tell it where to send the email.

    configure task options
    Add an email address, so it knows where to send the notification.

    Next, configure the subject and body of the email.

    configure task options
    Configure the email to let you know when the new link is live.

    When the link posts to Facebook, you’ll receive an email.

    email notification for live posts
    Receive an email when the post goes live on Facebook.

    When you click the link in the email, it will set up a post to your Google+ profile with the link already inserted. It may look garbled in the preview.

    preview google+ shares
    Preview the share for Google+ before it goes live.

    However, it’ll post correctly to your Google+ profile.

    sharing a post to google+
    Click Share to post on your Google+ profile.

    The link from your email allows you to post to your Google+ profile on mobile, if you’re logged into your mobile browser. If you don’t like to check your email, modify the task above to text the same message to you instead of sending it via email. Just use SMS by Zapier as the action instead of Gmail, and you’ll receive a text.

    receiving link by sms
    Change the action to SMS by Zapier to receive a text with the link, instead of an email.

    Click the link, and you’ll get the prompt to post the link to your Google+ profile.

    previewing link by sms
    Click the link and get a preview. Then share to Google+.

    This method will remind you to update your Google+ profile and gives you a fast way to do it. You’ll be notified of any engagement you receive while browsing Gmail, Google or other Google products.

    notifications for google+ actions
    Get notifications of any new actions for curated content, and view engagement on Google+.

    #4: Monitor Your Sendible Analytics

    Once everything is set up and in motion, you’ll want to periodically monitor your Sendible analytics. Click on the Measure menu to find interesting insights, such as the best time to post based on the schedule in your queue.

    sendible analytics
    Review Sendible analytics to view the best time to post.

    Review the most popular content you shared, based on the number of clicks each link received.

    top links in sendible analytics
    View the top links you’ve shared.

    Also, click on any of the above pieces of content to see which social networks drove the most traffic to those links. Notice it even includes tracking the posts to my Google+ profile, even though those posts aren’t sent through Sendible.

    links stats in sendible analytics
    Click on any link to view its stats.

    Go to the top of the Quick Reports screen, and use the drop-down to switch over to additional analytics reports.

    report views in sendible analytics
    Switch between reports in Sendible for each network. Also view Links and Monitoring reports.

    The Links report, for example, will show you which social networks drive the most traffic to the content you share.

    traffic stats by network in sendible analytics
    View the social networks that drive the most traffic to the content you share through the links report.

    Sendible analytics may help you determine which types of content resonate best with your audience and where you have the most engaged audiences.

    In Conclusion

    Curating content to your accounts is not meant to fully automate your social media marketing. It’s simply there to keep your accounts alive and give your audience fresh material, so they can engage with it. My engagement on Google+ and Pinterest (two accounts I otherwise neglected) has increased dramatically since I started curating content to them a few times per day.

    Incorporate additional updates along with your curated content to further engage with your audiences. By the way, this is something you can also do using Sendible, if you prefer.

    Remember, always reply to any comments you receive on your various social networks. It’s the direct engagement that will make this strategy truly pay off.

    What do you think? Have you tried Sendible? What strategies do you use to curate content to multiple accounts? Please share your favorite tactics and tools in the comments!

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    Tips for posting curated content to multiple social platforms with Sendible, Feedly and Zapier.

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    About the authorKristi Hines

    Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and copywriter who develops blog content, ebooks, emails, lead magnets, and website copy for marketing agencies, B2B, and SaaS.
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