# Social Media Calendar Template

Plan your content in a weekly or monthly calendar view with this strategic content calendar.

## Start building a smart posting schedule now

Ready to declutter your to-do list and hit your social (and business) goals? Fill in the form to get instant access to our free Social Media Calendar Template.

We’ve created this template as a practical companion to our [step-by-step guide to building a foolproof content plan](https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-calendar/).

It’s fully customizable in Excel and Google Sheets, so you can **adapt it to your team’s goals and needs, apply your brand colors and fonts, and organize things just the way you like**.

## What you’ll learn

- How to align social content with business goals
- Plan posts with weekly and monthly calendar templates
- Revisit ideas with a network-specific evergreen content library

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### Social Media Trends Report for Health Care

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### Generating Leads with Social Media

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### Getting to Know Your Audience

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### How Social Executives are Transforming the Financial Services Industry in Australia

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### The Social Revolution: Redefining the Student Experience in Australian Higher Education Institutions

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### Cross-Campus Innovation: A Guide to Social Media Strategy for Australian Higher Education Institutions

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### The Social Video Toolkit

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### A Guide to Social Video Strategy

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### Facebook Best Practices

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### Influencer Marketing 101

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### Social Media Strategy Template

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### Social Selling For Large Organizations

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### Instagram Master Tactics

With 500 million monthly active users, Instagram is filled with creative marketing and community-building opportunities.

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### Social Media Guide for Small Businesses

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### Top 3 Social Media Resources

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### Listen and Serve

7 innovative ways governments can increase transparency and public participation

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### From Tweets to Impact

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### How Hootsuite Wins with Social Data

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### 10 Tips For Running Your First Campaign

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### Hootsuite Mobile

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### 8 Social Media Tips for Financial Services

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### 6 Steps to Social Media Compliance

Learn about how regulations may affect your industry while using social media

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### Managing your Pending Posts

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### Organize your Social Business

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### 8 Tips for Social Business

How to measure ROI and scale your efforts

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### Connect with more prospects on social media

Your customers are on social media, using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and other social
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### How Meliá became one of the most influential hotel chains on social media

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### A glimpse into the future of education on social

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### Social Listening Best Practices in Financial Services

Build richer client relationships with real-time data from millions of conversations happening on social media

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### How to get more budget for social

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### A glimpse into the future of government on social

See the latest data and discover the top social media trends specific to government.

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### 50+ Free Canva Templates to Help You Beat Creative Block

Create stunning content in seconds with access to dozens of free designs.

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### How an IT solutions provider got 10.3M impressions on social

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### A glimpse into the future of nonprofit on social

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### How One Social Media Campaign Increased TransLink’s Brand Sentiment

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### How the University of Sydney Proves the Value of Social Media

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### Power Up Your Social Listening

Over 5 billion people are on social media talking about their likes, dislikes, and wants. Are you listening?

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### 12 real business problems you can solve with social

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### Social Media Calendar Template

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### 2022 Digital Trends Report

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### 3 Steps for Starting a Social Selling Program in Real Estate

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### Turn Comments Into Clicks with Auto-DMs

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### Mapfre creates a united social media strategy to deliver a consistent brand voice across channels

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### Social Media Calendar Template

Plan your content in a weekly or monthly calendar view with this strategic content calendar.

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### The 8 Elements of a Successful Government Social Media Strategy

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### The Social Campus

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