5 IFTTT Recipes That Can Really Help Your School PR and Marketing

If there was a magic recipe that could help streamline your social media or school PR and marketing would you use it?  What if I said that recipes exists?

I think it is time you visited IFTTT.com.

IFTTT, or If This Then That, is a free web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes", which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. (Wikipedia)

In simple terms, it lets you automate small tasks between Internet-connected services.

Here is a list of five recipes I compiled that will get you started on the service and help streamline school PR and marketing tasks:

1. Sync new contacts to a Google Spreadsheet  

Automatically save new iOS Contacts you add on your iPhone to a Google spreadsheet for easy sorting and searching.   Find It Here

2.  Save a copy of new photos you take to Dropbox

Make sure you never loose your precious photos by having them automatically uploaded to a Dropbox folder for safe keeping.  Find It Here

3. Save Your Instagram Photos to Dropbox

Automatically backup all new Instagram posts directly to Dropbox. Keep in mind, it works only for photos you post going forward.  Find It Here

4. Save Every Tweet

Archive your new tweets into a Google Drive for simple and easy tracking.  Find It Here

5. Track mentions of a specific #hashtag in a Google Spreadsheet 

Keep track of what people are saying about your business on Twitter by automatically saving new Tweets with a specific #hashtag to a Google Spreadsheet. Find It Here

These are a few recipes to get you started. Do you have favorite recipes you use with IFTTT? Post them in the comment section below.