How To Schedule Your Facebook Posts

How many of y’all schedule your blog posts days {or dare I say WEEKS} in advance?!  Y’know…when you know you’ll be out of town or when you just happen to be working *ahead*.  Ummm, as for me, notsomuch.  As you can see, I’m doing good to even attempt to blog once a week.  However, since I’ve been out of town, I’ve really tried to stay on top of scheduling my linky parties in advance. 

Did y’all know you can schedule your Facebook posts, too?!  Am I the LAST one to know about this?!  I mean, it totally wouldn’t surprise me if I am.  I’ve never been the first to find out about anything.  But seriously…did y’all know about this?!  You can schedule…or POST date…all of your Facebook posts for both your fan and personal pages.  Pretty cool, huh?! 

Just click this little clock icon in the bottom left corner of your post box.  A few drop down boxes will pop up {year, month, day, time} so you’ll just add those and move right along.  Pretty self explanatory.

Once you’ve entered in the date & time you want the post to go live, just click the “schedule” box and you’re good to go!

A little pop up box that looks like this will appear confirming your scheduled post.

If you make an “OOOPS!!!” and realize you want to edit or cancel your post, you can click the “View Activity Log” button.  But let’s say you accidentally press “Close” instead and you still want to edit or cancel.  If you’re scheduling a post on your “fan” page, just click on the “Edit Page” button in your Admin Panel and then click on the “Use Activity Log” option from the drop down menu.

Now you’re in your Activity Log and you can make any changes you need…edit, delete….whatever!  You can also see everything else you have scheduled to post.

You can also go back and choose to post date, too.  Your post will magically go live right in the spot of the date that you choose. 

What a fun little feature! 

Speaking of Facebook, don’t forget to head on over to my FB page today and see the daily deal for Day Two of our 12 Days of Christmas :)  While you’re there, “like” The First Grade Parade so you don’t miss out on any deals/contests/freebies/fun in the future!