Free Tool Friday: Schedule posts to Twitter & Facebook

Posted in Tips & Resources on 20. Jan, 2012

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There is no substitute for engaging and building true relationships on social media. Robotically scheduling updates to Twitter & Facebook isn’t a good practice, but neither is overwhelming your followers with back to back posts.  This app will let you share your content at optimal times and create a more consistent presence on Twitter and Facebook.

Tool: Buffer App

About: Queue up tweets so that they go out when your followers are most likely to see them (and click & retweet them). If you’re like us and get up first thing in the morning and find 5 things you want to share, you can easily add them to Buffer and they will post throughout the day. With Buffer you can fully edit your posts and content and then quickly see how many people you reached and who re-tweeted you. Buffer also has a mobile app and is now integrated directly into Twitter.

Get it: Go to BufferApp and try it out. Be sure and tie it into your bit.ly account if you have one.

 

Look! You can easily add to Buffer right in Twitter.

 

About Free Tool Friday

Do you like free tools that help you be more effective at your job? Well apparently you aren’t alone. Recently we blogged on our 19 favorite free tools for non profits and it’s become our most popular post to date. We’re keeping it going with Free Tool Friday!  Every Friday we’ll post a new tool that we think will help you communicate better and help your nonprofit’s mission.

Some fine print: Neither Mixtape Communications  or Zan McColloch-Lussier  get a kick back or any financial benefit from this service or tool. We feel like it is a good resource for non profits but we didn’t create it. So please check it out and make sure it is right for your organization. If we recommend a tool or resource on Free Tool Friday and you discover that it is crap, not actually free, or something is funky about it, please let us know.
Image thanks  Flickr:woodleywonderworks