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How to Automate Social Media Posting

Generate content with AI and post to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack from a single workflow.

Overview

Formt can generate and publish social media content automatically. Write content with AI, post to multiple platforms, schedule recurring posts, and use data from RSS feeds or spreadsheets as content sources.

Build a single workflow that creates content once and distributes it to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack, or customize the message per platform.

Generate Content with AI

Use AI Generate to compose posts. Reference upstream data in your prompt: RSS feed item titles, company news, report summaries, or any other data from earlier steps.

Use Text output mode for social posts. This produces clean plain text without HTML formatting, which is what social platforms expect.

Step Guide: AI Generate

Post to LinkedIn

The LinkedIn step publishes to your profile or company page. Connect your LinkedIn account in integrations, configure the target URN, and map the message from your AI output. Supports text and image posts.

Step Guide: LinkedIn

Post to Facebook

The Facebook step publishes to a connected Page. Configure the page ID, map your message content, and publish. Supports text and image posts with multiple images.

Step Guide: Facebook

Post to Slack

The Slack step posts to a channel in your workspace. Good for internal distribution of the same content, team notifications, or content review workflows where someone approves before publishing externally.

Step Guide: Slack

Cross-Post to Multiple Platforms

Add parallel branches from a single AI Generate step to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack. Each platform gets the same content simultaneously.

For better results, use separate AI Generate steps for each platform so you can tailor the tone. LinkedIn favors a professional voice, Facebook is more conversational, and Slack can be brief and direct.

Schedule Recurring Posts

Use cron scheduling to run the workflow automatically on a daily, weekly, or custom schedule. Combine with an RSS Feed step to post whenever new content appears on a blog or news feed, or with Google Sheets to work through a content calendar row by row.

Templates

Start from a pre-built template to get a working social media pipeline in minutes.

Tips
  • Tailor content per platform. LinkedIn favors professional tone, Facebook is more casual, Slack can be brief and direct.
  • Use an RSS Feed step to automatically source content from blogs or news feeds.
  • Schedule the workflow to run daily or weekly for consistent posting.