Learn how to add custom events to Orlo's Content Calendar. This article provides a summary of the steps to personalise your social media calendar.
Benefits 🙌
- Organisation - Add important dates to help organise your content calendar these could be events outside of social media that you may want to use for content ideas
- Collaboration - Enables all users to view pinned calendar events, ensuring consistency in posting and helping team members recognise key dates that may influence content decisions.
Calendar events can be pinned to the top of your content calendar, which is visible to everyone in your organisation. These are useful for things such as events that may be running, awareness days that align with your strategy, and any disruptions, or reminders.
1) To add a calendar event click on the 🗓️ icon in the top right-hand corner and select 'Calendar Event' from the drop-down ➡️ Add the Title ➡️ Add the Start Date and End Date ➡️ Select the colour of your event ➡️ click 'Save'.
This will then appear at the top of your calendar for others to see.
Example Calendar Events:
- Awareness Days
- Local Events
- Media events
- Open Days
- Disruptions to services
- Alert people about posting times
Note: Only admin users can create calendar events. This means the 'Administer' permissions will need to be enabled for users who will need access. All users can still see calendar events.