Content - Do you know the types of content you should post on your social media?

Last updated by Ash Chetla [SSW] over 1 year ago.See history

Sometimes it can be hard to keep generating content daily for your social media and even more when there’s not much going on. Here are a few types of content you could use for your next social media posts:

1 - Internal projects, services or products that your business developed or offers

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Figure: Devs doing a Scrum Retro meeting with the Product Owner after working on SSW TimePro

2 - Projects that your company worked on

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Figure: Developer being recorded by SSW TV about the web app that SSW developed for Sydney University

3 - Video content

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Figure: Adam Cogan and Matt Goldman's discussion on "Avoiding the Technical Debt Spiral" at SSW TV

4 - Events that your company organized

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Figure: Azure Superpowers - Paid training promotion on SSW's social media

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Figure: Angular Hack Day post-event post

5 - External events that you and your team attended to

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Figure: SSW’s team in our booth at NDC Sydney 2019 with Alumnus Tiago Passos

6 - Team members profiles

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Figure: In profile photos, you can show your employees in action

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Figure: Another example of an employee action shot

7 - Employees' blogs posts

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Figure: Use the same image from the blog post for consistency

8 - Business blog posts

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Figure: When you promote your own business' blog post on your social media, try to use the same design & branding

9 - General content written/followed by your team

It can be a blog post or one of the many useful SSW Rules - these are best practices that are worth sharing with everyone.

If your company follows an SSW rule, then share it on your social media too. Use #ssw and #sswrules so readers can find more!

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Figure: Even though some of your content won't have a photo, you can either take one like this, or add a relevant one from a free stock photo service

10 - Employment opportunities

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Figure: Hiring post following branding guidelines

11 - Teamwork, parties, etc.

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Figure: A team shot just before NDC with part of the SSW China office

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Figure: SSW Melbourne - Following COVID-19 safety guidelines

12 - Relevant news for your industry

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Figure: If you don't have a catchy photo to represent your news, try free stock photo websites like Pexels or Unsplash

13 - Memes (if they suit your industry)

To see best practices for sharing memes on your socials, check out Do you know why you should use memes as part of your business social media content?

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Figure: A meme once a week on weekends can help you boost your social media engagement

14 - Application upgrades/updates

When you do a major (or minor) upgrade to an application, you should let people know and identify the reason for the upgrade.

Whether your upgrade is to take advantage of a new feature, fix a bug, or even just to keep yourself on the latest and greatest version, your followers might want to know why you upgraded. You should put a short announcement on Twitter, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn. Your followers may not know about the changes and the ones who are grateful are likely to retweet or like your post.

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Figure: Good example - Announcing the upgrade with a short note of the new feature

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