Posting to Social Networks

In a number of places within ClubExpress, administrators and coordinators can push content to your club’s social networking pages, including Facebook and Twitter.

Note: LinkedIn no longer supports push notifications due to policy changes by that company.

In order to post to social media, you need to explicitly authorize “ClubExpress.com” to be allowed to post to your page or feed via that network’s API (Application Programming Interface.) For Facebook, this only needs to be done once. For Twitter, it needs to be done in each session (by Twitter policy.)

Note: The posting process is secure. ClubExpress does not have access to your passwords; we don’t see them at all since the login and authorization is done on a page served by each social network.

When you are posting to Facebook, be sure first to connect to the club’s page rather than your personal page, via the “Using Facebook as…” option.

When you try to post to Facebook the first time, you will see the following dialog:

Facebook Access Popup

You will usually want the post to be public, but you can click the Public drop-down to limit the scope of your post. Click Okay to complete the authorization or Not Now to cancel the process.

For this feature to work, you must be configured as an “admin” on the club’s account, or have the privilege to post to the page.

When you try to post to Twitter the first time in each session, you will see the following popup browser window:

Twitter Access Popup

The top right corner of the screen will show the Twitter feed you are trying to access. Click Authorize App to complete the authorization or Cancel to close the window without authorizing.

Note: Of the five bullets listed, the only one ClubExpress actually does is “Post Tweets for you.”