Social Media
You can set up Social Media posts to go out at a specific time to Facebook and/or Twitter by adding them to the log.
Adding social media
- Press the Social Media button at the top of the log window. When you do this, a window will appear allowing you to type in the content of your message.
- You will also see two checkboxes, one for Twitter and one for Facebook. Select which service you would like to post your message to.
- Press Save. When that point is reached in the log, your post will be sent.
Example Post Content: Join James until 10pm here on Classic Hits.
Inserting tags
Rather than just having static text, you can have dynamic text, which will change. To insert a tag:
- Press the Insert Tag button
- Select what Tag you would like:
- Log Title - This will be the Title of the specific item you select
- Log Artist - This will be the Artist of the specific item you select
- Select the type of tag, which will give you a drop-down to select which one of your item Types you would like to use
- Select what item you would like the tag to use:
- Now - This will use the song that is immediately after the command
- Log position - This will look for that item ahead in time. i.e. A log position of 2 would return the song two items from where the log post is
- Press Save
You can insert multiple tags if required:
Example Post Content: Coming up in the next 5 minutes on Classic Hits, we have %%LOG_SONG_TITLE_2%% by %%LOG_SONG_ARTIST_2%%! It's a song not to miss.
Saving social media as a command
To make it easier to send a social post, later on, you can easily save it as a command.
To do this, press the Save as Command button, which will then prompt you to give the command a Friendly Name. After doing this, you can then insert the command into the log at a later date to send out the same social media post.
Please make sure you have set up Facebook and Twitter integration in Monitor; otherwise, you won't be able to select the checkboxes.