Administrator: ExactTarget Integration

By: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

If ExactTarget is your email provider, you can now utilize Compendium to push your blog content into ExactTarget. Before you can begin this feature must be activiated in your account.  In order for this to be activated you'll need to contact either your Account Manager or help@compendium.com.

There are 2 things you will need in order to to use this feature: 

  1. ExactTarget API Credentials:  The username/password combination will be the credentials used to authenticate with ExactTarget's SOAP API. ...
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Administrator: Setting a Default Image for Social Sharing

By: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
As an Administrator, you have the ability to set a default image to appear with social shares of posts that do not contain images. If a post contains images, the first image will be pulled to display with the social share.

Please note:  Not all social media sites utilize OpenGraph. Facebook and LinkedIn are two that do.


1.  Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Administrator credentials

2.  In the top navigation bar, click Account

3.  Under Account Settings, click Network

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Administrator: Adding Multiple Social Networking Accounts

By: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As an Administrator, you now have the ability to promote to multiple Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn accounts at a time. 

Please note: In order to successfully add multiole credentials, you will need to logged out of your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts within your browser.
Please note: To promote to a corporate Facebook fan page, the credentials entered must be the fan page administrator's credentials.

1.  Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Administrator credentials

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Author: Promoting a Post

By: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As an Author, you have the ability to promote your approved blog posts to your personal Twitter, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn accounts from within the Compendium application.

Please note: Before you can promote your post, you must first add your social media accounts.

To add your credentials immediately upon submission, follow the below instructions. 

1.  Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Author credentials

2.  Within the top navigation bar, click Account

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Administrator: Approving and Declining Content

By: Thursday, December 16, 2010
This segment will provide information on the following topics:
  1. How to view pending posts.
  2. How to view all posts.
  3. How to moderate content by approving and/or declining posts.
  4. Viewing details of a submitted post.
  5. How to schedule posts for future release.
  6. What is a sticky post?
  7. What is a modified post?
  8. How to edit a post.
  9. How to promote posts to the following social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn


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Author: Understanding the Trusted Author Role

By: Wednesday, December 8, 2010

As an Author, you can be granted the Trusted Author role by your network Administrator. The Trusted Author role allows your posts to bypass Administrator moderation to be published immediately on the blog after you click 'Submit.' The Trusted Author role also allows you to promote your blog posts directly to your own Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profile pages.
 

Please note:  Please see your network Administrator with questions about receiving Trusted Author permissions, as they may grant or...
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Author: Promoting a Post as a Trusted Author

By: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
As an Author, you may be assigned the Trusted Author role by your network Administrator.  As a Trusted Author, you have the ability to promote your posts to your personal Twitter, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn accounts. The Trusted Author role allows your posts to bypass Administrator moderation to be published immediately on the blog after you click 'Submit.'

Please note: The network Administrator may grant or remove your Trusted Author role at any time. Please see the Administrator with questions...
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Administrator: Allowing Access to Your Twitter Account

By: Thursday, December 2, 2010
As an Administrator, you have the ability to add Twitter accounts to your Compendium blog network. Adding a Twitter account allows you to easily promote blog posts to Twitter from the administrator panel.

1.  Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Administrator credentials
 
2.  In top navigation bar, click Account
 
3.  Under Account Settings, click 'Social Networks'

4.  To allow access to Twitter, click the Twitter icon

Account Settings Social Networks
 
5.  The Twitter sign in screen will display

Twitter Sign In
 
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FAQ: Promoting a Post

By: Thursday, December 2, 2010
The following are frequently asked questions pertaining to promoting posts to social media outlets from within your Compendium account.

What social media outlets can I promote to?
What if I don't see the post promoted?
  • Post may not immediately display. It can take a few minutes to appear and if a post is scheduled for future release, the social promotion will not display until the blog post is live.
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FAQ: RSS Questions

By: Monday, November 22, 2010
The following are frequently asked questions pertaining to an RSS reader, which is a social media tool for sharing content to readers:

What is an RSS Feed?
  • An RSS feed is similar to a file on your web server that your readers' RSS aggregators check periodically for updates.  You are not notified when these RSS aggregators are checking for updates or how often they are checking -- this information is checked randomly.
How many RSS readers do you have?
  • Unfortunately, unlike a mailing list, it is not...
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