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  1. 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...
  2.  How to Build Out and Use Your Resources Section

                    The Resources section of Catholic Social Media is where you can house and distribute anything and everything you need to get in front of parishes for easy access. Bulletin inserts, flyers, letter templates, graphics, yo...
  3.  How to Use Personalization Parameters

    Personalization parameters are a fun, easy way you can help your parishes personalization content copy without giving them extra work. Personalization parameters are phrases that are commonly used in parish social media. Currently, the follo...
  4. How to Upload Multiple Images in One Post (for parishes) New

    Multiple image uploads (or carousels) are posts with more than one image or graphic. You can upload up to ten images within a single post on Catholic Social Media. Posts with four or less images can be published to Facebook, Instagram, and X. P...
  5. 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...
  6. Put Social Media to Work on Holidays and Weekends

    Even in the world of social media schedulers, it can be easy to fall into old ways of thinking about when to post. If you work a typical 9-5 in the parish office, you may think that posting on weekdays during the same time will work best. However, o...
  7. How to Manage Your Subscription and Billing

    You can manage your subscription and billing details by logging in, clicking on your profile image, then clicking "Subscription." Once there, you can change your plan, cancel it, manage billing contacts, and update your payment methods. ...
  8. How to Create a Story (for parishes) New

    Stories are a type of post supported by Facebook and Instagram. They last 24 hours and go away. They are a great way to engage your current followers! To publish a Story through Catholic Social Media: 1. Click "Create Post" from the Planner or...
  9. How to Post to Different Social Media Accounts at Different Times

    I’d like to post to different social media accounts at slightly different times. How do I do that? Begin by clicking on the first post you want to use and then schedule it to your first platform. Then, return to the Planner page, click the post a...
  10. How to Avoid Unwanted Characters in Post Copy: HTML vs Plain Text

    To ensure your copy shows up exactly how you expect, we recommend putting it into a plain text editor like Notepad, then copy/pasting it into Catholic Social Media. Sometimes when text is copied from other sources like websites, it picks up HTML fo...