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  1. How to Create Your Own Posts as a Parish or School Updated

    How to create your own content within Catholic Social Media
  2. How to Edit or Delete a Post

    How to edit or delete a post you scheduling in Catholic Social Media.
  3. How to Convert a Personal Facebook Account to a Page

    While you can't directly convert a personal Facebook account to a Page, there are best practices and steps to follow to get your parish Facebook Page set up correctly. Create a new Facebook page for your parish following these steps . Alert y...
  4. Setting Up Your Instagram Business Account and Connecting it to Facebook

    In order to connect both your Facebook and Instagram to Catholic Social Media, your Instagram must be set as a business account and it must be linked to your Facebook page in the Meta Business Suite. First, to set your Instagram account to a busine...
  5. Inspire in the Morning, Engage in the Afternoon

    Men and women who follow their parish on social media follow the same habits and patterns as the population at large. Many of them log on and off social media throughout the day, which can make it difficult to predict the exact perfect time to publi...
  6. The 8:1 Nourishment Rule

    USE THE 8:1 NOURISHMENT RULE  If you remember the bad old days of parish social media, you remember this cycle:  Post about Lenten fish fry Post about Triduum and Easter Mass times Post about Christmas Mass times Repeat! And what happened ...
  7. What is Catholic Social Media?

    What is Catholic Social Media? Catholic Social Media (CSM) is a subscription-based service that provides daily, high-quality, unbranded Catholic posts for parishes to use on their social media channels. We do this through a web-based application ...
  8. Parish User Roles

    There are three types of parish users in Catholic Social Media, each with different permissions within the parish subscription. Below is a full list of each type of user and the permissions that user has. Parish Owner(s) Full rights to create...
  9. How Often Should You Post?

    Of all the things you could do to reach your parishioners and neighbors on social media, the most important thing is to post daily. The “big three” social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) all incentivize this – accounts that post daily...
  10. Talking About Social Media Offline

    How many times have you entered a coffee shop or hardware store and seen signs that beg you to follow the organization on social media or like and share their content? It happens all the time. And it is right for small businesses to do this! While ...