Great Social Media Content Calendar Template Ideas

By Barry Hott How far in advance do you write your social media content? A few seconds? An hour? A day? A week? A month? While it's great to be responsive and write relevant content, much of that can be planned in advance.

Can you believe it's already Wednesday? I can't! This week is flying by and I want to take full advantage of these few minutes with you. Last week's tip was all about getting started and this week we're moving on to the big question mark in the Facebook sky.

Global Journey is a media company who record and distribute music, spoken word and DVD recordings. I worked for Global Journey Media between January 2012 and October 2012 as a consultant Digital Marketing Manager, working together with Believe Digital Agency to ensure effecting marketing communications to consumers and corporate customers.

Food Network Magazine's June Summer Social Sweepstakes, built by Massachusetts-based mobile marketing and technology services company, Nellymoser, launched today with 30 daily prizes and Nellymoser's new Pinterest social media offering. Scan to Pin gives readers the ability to scan a QR code or Digimarc digital watermark with a mobile phone and automatically pin content to Pinterest.

Social media calendars are being created, modified, enhanced and utilized on an ongoing basis to better manage blogs, microblogs and social network content and messaging. Previously I wrote about these behind-the-scenes planning tools in " Why You Should Have a Social Media Calendar" and "Elements Of a Social Media Calendar," where you can see some early iterations of these content grids.

Content Marketing is hot. White hot. SEO and digital marketing thought leaders are declaring that Content Marketing is the next big thing. Even Rand is touting its importance. The strategy of Content Marketing makes sense: instead of pushing messages about your product at prospects, pull prospects towards you by publishing content about your prospects' interests.