Dean Fankhauser

Articles by Dean Fankhauser

LearningInstagram Reels API: How to Publish with Meta (2026)A developer's guide to the Instagram Reels API: choose the right login path, create and check a video container, confirm publication, and handle failures.Dean Fankhauser26 Sept 20269 min readLearningTikTok Posting API: Direct Post, Inbox Upload and a Safer WorkflowA current developer guide to TikTok's Content Posting API, including Direct Post, inbox upload, audit restrictions, consent, status checks and Postdom's managed workflow.Dean Fankhauser25 Sept 202610 min readYour workflowFree Social Media Content Calendar Template (Google Sheets and Excel, 2026)A free social media content calendar template for Google Sheets and Excel, no signup: seven tabs, a filled 30-day example, a posting schedule by platform, a content plan and nine steps to build your calendar.Dean Fankhauser23 Sept 202617 min readLearning10 Best Social Media Schedulers in 2026: Costs, Limits and PicksCompare the best social media schedulers, led by Postdom for agent-run publishing, with verified pricing, screenshots and practical workflow checks.Dean Fankhauser20 Sept 202629 min readInside PostdomThe empty screen is the pointOur first dashboard had a calendar, a wall of charts and a composer. We deleted all three. What replaced them, and why the best thing a review screen can say is that nothing needs you.Dean Fankhauser8 Sept 20267 min readYour workflowWrite the brief like you're going on holidayThe note you would leave a colleague covering your accounts for two weeks is the best agent brief you will ever write. What belongs in it, and what belongs in Policy instead.Dean Fankhauser8 Sept 20266 min readLearningYour best post probably wasn'tThe number you screenshotted at hour six is not the number at day seven, and half your platforms never report the metric you ranked on. How to read a week without fooling yourself.Dean Fankhauser8 Sept 20267 min readPerspectivesThe last caption I wrote by handA month of letting an agent run our own accounts. The strange first week, what I stopped checking, what got worse, and the moment I noticed the typing was never the job.Dean Fankhauser8 Sept 20267 min readAgents write, humans approve: the social media approval workflow that survives AIA social media approval workflow for AI-native teams: agent post → human approve → publish, without connector chaos — authority, accounts, and a durable post.Dean Fankhauser8 Sept 20265 min read