This tutorial explains how to keep Facebook posts synced with LinkedIn. You can use the method explained in this tutorial to integrate Facebook and LinkedIn together and keep your Facebook status message posts synced to LinkedIn. To integrate both these services, I will use IFTTT to create a recipe that will automatically post your Facebook status updates to LinkedIn profile. You can also create other variants of this recipe to automatically upload Facebook photos to LinkedIn or just post a Facebook status with a particular hashtag to LinkedIn.
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How to keep Facebook posts synced with LinkedIn using IFTTT:
As I mentioned earlier, I will use IFTTT to create a recipe/automated task that will monitor for your every newer Facebook status message and then automatically post them as an update to your LinkedIn profile. You need to first create an account on IFTTT to create a recipe. After logging on to IFTTT, connect your Facebook and LinkedIn profile with IFTTT. After you have connected your accounts, you can proceed to create the recipe to perform this task.
So let’s see the steps to keep Facebook posts synced with LinkedIn using IFTTT:
Step 1: Switch to My recipes tab and click on Create a recipe button, and then click on “this” link button to configure the trigger channel and its action.
Step 2: Select Facebook as the trigger channel and “New status message by you” as the trigger.
Step 3: Click on Create Trigger button to create the trigger, which will be fired every time you will post a status message on Facebook.
Step 4: Now, click on “that” link button to configure the action channel and its action.
Step 5: Select LinkedIn as the Action channel and “Share an update” as the action. After that, click on Create Action button to create the action that will be executed when the trigger created in Step 3 will be fired.
Step 6: Now, just click on Create Recipe button and your automated task will be created which will auto upload your newer Facebook status messages to your LinkedIn profile.
So in this way, you can integrate Facebook and LinkedIn together and keep your Facebook status messages always synced to your LinkedIn profile. Yu can also create other variants of this IFTTT recipe to automatically post new Facebook photos to LinkedIn, automatically post status messages with a link or a particular hashtag to LinkedIn. For it, you need to go through all steps mentioned above and just change the Facebook trigger to any of these actions specified.
Verdict:
This tutorial explains how to keep your Facebook posts synced with LinkedIn using IFTTT web service. You just have to go through the steps mentioned in this tutorial once and from then your newer Facebook status messages will automatically be uploaded to LinkedIn.
