That Social Media Girl

How to automatically share your Instagram images natively to Twitter (with IFTTT)

Instagram app on mobile phone

If you love time hacks then you will love IFTTT (If This Then That). Trust me it’s worth checking out. When I discovered this tool I got very excited and spent hours on the website exploring everything you can do with it.

IFTTT allows you to set up ‘recipes’ which means when a specific action is carried out another action is automatically triggered. A huge time saver when it comes to social media management.

One of my favourite recipes is: 

This means that when you post an Instagram photo you can choose to natively share it to a Twitter account by using a chosen hashtag (set by yourself) in the Instagram photo caption. read more

My Top 5 Favourite Chrome Extensions for Social Media Management

social media chrome extensions

So I will start off with some facts about myself:

1. I love saving time

2. I love lifehacks

This is why I LOVE Chrome extensions! They are so handy and can really save you so much time when you’re surfing the web and doing the things that you need to do on a daily basis (in my case managing multiple social media accounts.) I personally believe these extensions are so under-rated! Everyone needs to know about these and how they can help them (especially when managing social media accounts).

There are a few extensions that stand out from the crowd. These act like life jackets, preventing me from drowning in the sea of content which is just getting deeper and deeper and deeper…
*Cough* ANYWAY read more

5 Steps to Setting up a Hootsuite Dashboard that Rocks Your Socks Off.

setting up a hootsuite dashboard

Setting up your Hootusite dashboard can take time and it’s tempting to pull your platforms in then leave it. However it really is worth spending the time to set it up properly in advance and to learn all the dashboard’s features. Here are my 5 steps to setting up your dashboard which include all my favourite and most effective features of Hootsuite.

1. Pull in all your social media platforms so you can manage all your accounts from one place. (You need Hootsuite Pro if you want to bring in more than 3 social media platforms) read more