At least on the Facebook side, there is the ability to set up posts to land up to 2 months in advance for something likely a weekly or twice weekly plant of the week or other informational post. James On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 6:58 AM Michael Mace via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > I would happily handle an Instagram account for PBS. (I often post on my > account about PBS.) > > Oooo! That sparks a thought. > > I've been learning about different ways of managing the social sites > (background: I work in a tech company that has a full-time social marketing > manager; she's been teaching me.) Each one of them is different in terms of > the types of content that work well, but it's usually some combination of > pictures and/or very short videos. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, > etc. Anyone who is, like Bridget, a member of a particular site will know > what works there. > > As Robin said, managing a full PBS presence on all the social sites would > be > a lot of work because you need to maintain the conversation -- respond to > comments, comment on other people's things, etc. But you don't have to use > the social sites that way. You can just post things periodically as a means > of building awareness for the Society, to attract new members and visitors > to the wiki. Like Bridget said, a photo of the week or a photo of the day > or > whatever pace you want. In at least some of the social sites, you can turn > off comments so you don't have to monitor anything. > > I think that could be much easier to manage for PBS. When we have a > volunteer who wants to be our ambassador to a social site, we give them the > PBS account login info for that site and let them post. If they get tired > of > posting, the account goes dormant until there's a new volunteer. I think it > can scale up or down based on the enthusiasm of our volunteers. > > Might be worthwhile to give it a try with one of the sites... > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…