The first step to getting started with Symphony is to add the social profiles and blogs that you’d like to manage. Symphony is meant to be an all-in-one social media management dashboard, and it works better the more accounts you connect to it. Here are the types of accounts you can connect:

• Facebook profiles
• Facebook business pages
• Facebook groups (if you’re the group admin)
• Twitter accounts
• LinkedIn profile
• LinkedIn Company Pages
• Blogs you manage

Symphony will ask for Facebook permissions, including the ability to “post on your behalf”. Don’t worry! Symphony will never post anything unless you tell it to. Once you’re in Symphony you’ll see the home page like this:

 

To pick which individual Facebook pages you want to link click the Facebook button (Twitter will connect whichever account you’re currently logged in with). You’ll see a list of your pages appear:

 

Once you’ve linked your desired profiles, click ‘Done’ and you’ll be taken to the home dashboard for the first time. This is what your profiles will look like:

If you need to link more profiles, click “Add profiles & blogs.”

Now that you’re set up there’s a few basic tasks you might also want to do:

• Set up syndication to automatically publish your latest blog posts to facebook and twitter.
• Set up brand searches in the Inbox page to keep tabs on mentions of your brand.
• Install the Facebook blog tab to show your latest posts in a tab on your facebook page.

You’re ready to rock and roll and start harmonizing your social media empire!