Keeping track of which Facebook groups you've already posted to
I joined maybe a dozen Facebook groups over the past year to share work occasionally, and I've started losing track of which ones I've already posted to in a given week. More than once I've dropped the same piece into the same group twice without realizing it.
I don't post often, so you'd think this would be simple. But the groups blur together after a while, especially the ones with similar names.
Does anyone use a system for this? A spreadsheet, a rotation, anything. Curious what's actually working for people who manage more than a handful of groups without repeating themselves.
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Hey Luther! The chess player in you is going to like this one because it's basically a notation system for your posting game.
A simple spreadsheet is the move. Here's the setup that works:
- Column A: group name. Column B: direct link to the group (so you click straight in instead of scrolling Facebook's sidebar). Column C: date of last post. Column D: which piece you shared.
- Sort by Column C ascending before each posting session. The group you haven't touched in the longest time floats to the top.
- Set a rotation cadence. If you're posting once a week across 12 groups, that's roughly 2 groups per session if you post twice a week. Space them so no single group sees you more than once every 2 weeks.
- Keep a "cooling off" rule: if you posted a specific piece to a group, that piece doesn't go back to that group for at least 60 days. The date column makes this a 3 second check.
Google Sheets works fine for this. One tab, four columns, takes 10 minutes to set up and about 15 seconds to update each time you post. The groups stop blurring together once you have a list you're physically checking off.
Want help building the actual tracker template with your groups already filled in? I can set one up for you
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