Tagging colleagues, clients, or partners is important to increase your reach and online engagement. Apostle offers two different ways of tagging people and pages in your posts:
With the web dashboard (Tag team members' accounts and all business pages).
With the mobile app (Tag anyone you like).
Tagging in the web dashboard
In the admin web dashboard you can tag every connected personal LinkedIn page of your team members in Apostle. We offer additional options for tagging business pages. For Facebook and LinkedIn, you can search for any external business page and tag it directly.
Please follow the steps below:
Go to Create Post.
Select the @ icon in the text field.
Select the Team if you want to tag a team member. Select Search Facebook Pages or Search LinkedIn Pages to search for a business page.
Click on the name and the Tag will now be added to your post. Your team members will see the tag added to the post in their mobile app or email.
Important: Due to technical limitations, tagging personal accounts in the web dashboard only works for LinkedIn and only works for the connected accounts in your platform (Use the Search in Team option here). We're doing additional research to make tagging possible for external sources and the other platforms. Instagram will be added later for business pages.
Warning: The business page tags will not work for posts shared to personal Facebook and Instagram accounts through our mobile app. These tags will be posted as plain text. Team members will have to manually add these tags while sharing.
Additionally, tagging will not work for business pages that have emoji's or punctuation marks in their Facebook or LinkedIn name.
Tagging Facebook and LinkedIn pages in one post variant
To easily tag both your Facebook and LinkedIn pages in a single post variant, follow these steps. This is particularly useful when creating a post that you intend to share on both platforms. Ensure you tag the respective business pages for each platform individually:
Go to Create Post.
Ensure you have selected both Facebook and LinkedIn as available platforms for your post.
Select the @ icon in the text field.
Click Search Facebook Pages and find the relevant business page.
The Tag is now added to your Composer. Click on the Tag itself (not the @ icon) and search for the LinkedIn Pages. Add the Tag to your post.
You have now succesfully tagged both your Facebook and LinkedIn page in one post variant. You should see a Facebook and LinkedIn icon behind your tag.
Complete your post and schedule it for your team and/or business pages.
Important: Use this option only when creating a single post variant for both platforms. Our platform will automatically identify the chosen sharing platform and will apply the relevant tag accordingly. For instance, if this tag is posted on Facebook, only the Facebook tag will appear. The same applies to LinkedIn.
Tagging in the mobile app
With the Apostle app, you can easily tag everyone you’re working with. Please note that it works differently for LinkedIn than for Facebook and Instagram. Follow the steps below to start tagging people and companies in your Apostle posts.
Facebook & Instagram
Open the Apostle app, search for the right post, and select Share.
Select the Facebook or Instagram icon (a message will appear, stating your text has been copied to the clipboard).
The Facebook or Instagram app will open. Paste the copied text from your clipboard in the text field.
Now add your tag to the text field (type @ and enter the name).
Select Post and that’s it!
Please note: For Instagram, you will first need to go through a few selections, such as filters, before seeing the text field to paste your post. Also, you need to have the Facebook and Instagram app installed on your phone to make sharing and tagging through Apostle work.
Open the Apostle app, search for the right post, and select Share.
Select the LinkedIn icon and select Share. (A message appears to confirm your share, and to ask if you want to tag someone in your post.)
Select Yes and you will be redirected to your post on LinkedIn.
Select the menu (top right in LinkedIn) and select Edit post.
Now add your tag in the text field (type @ and enter the name).
Select Save and that’s it!
Please note: You need to have the LinkedIn app installed on your phone to make sharing and tagging through Apostle work.
Important: Business page tags that are added in the web dashboard do not require any manual action. The steps above only apply to tagging external personal accounts.