Social Media Publisher - Overview
The Social Media Publisher for Web Content Manager is used to manage social media posts for published content items and, if configured, draft content items.
- The Social Media Publisher supports HCL Connections, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- The Social Media Publisher supports both manual and automatic social media posts, and also manages the life-cycle of social media posts.
- Social media posts are only applied to published content and, if configured, draft content items.
- The Social Media Publisher does not include or manage the social media "badges" you can add to websites to allow end-users to link or share web content to their social network followers.
Social Network | Message type | Statistics supported | Message URL addressable | Supports end user tracking | Supports untrack | Supports delete |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HCL Connections | Blog post | Like, comment count | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
HCL Connections | Message board post | Comment count | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
HCL Connections | Wiki post | Like, comment count | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Page wall post | Like, comment count | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Profile wall post | Like, comment count | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Network update | None | No | No | Yes | No | |
Share | None | No | No | Yes | No | |
Tweet | Reshare count | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Note
Page notes have been deprecated by Facebook.
Before you begin
You should become familiar with your social media of choice and be aware of limitations such as:
- throttle limits
- maximum posts per timeframe