In business, planning ahead is the best way to adapt to last-minute changes. As well as getting content scheduled in advance, you could rely on digitalisation to schedule meetings and keep your business ticking over if staff are on holiday or in an emergency.

In this blog post, we’ll cover some key applications to choose from when scheduling content, meetings or other administrative tasks. We’ll also cover their main use cases and why you may want to use them for your business tasks.

Buffer is a social media scheduling app built specifically for small businesses – they offer a free plan to make it easy for you to plan content in advance and publish it from the app for up to 3 different social media accounts. You can plan, draft, schedule and publish social media content using a calendar-based board to easily manage your business’s social media channels.

If you want to post engaging videos for your followers, you can use CapCut. They use groundbreaking AI to enhance the video production process, and you can even schedule posts in advance if you select the paid CapCut Pro Plan. They have plenty of templates to choose from, as well as a whole host of video-editing technology to get to grips with!

For those who have regular meetings, Calendly is a good tool, used by large and small companies alike. You can sync Calendly with other calendar apps like Google Calendar, add your availability for people to book themselves in, customise event types and place scheduling links for people to follow on your website pages or social media posts.

With the use of AI, Motion can automatically plan your day around important tasks and priority events. Depending on whether it’s an individual using it or a whole team, Motion can plan tasks and projects, as well as entire schedules, and even reschedule incomplete tasks to save wasted time.

Microsoft Project helps you to organise projects and stay on top of them easily. You can plan projects based on estimated duration, team members assigned, and effort/resources needed, which falls into its own schedule of deliverables. One of its main benefits is the ability to automate your workflows so that every stage of the project is more visible for you and your team members.

If you’re looking to adopt new digital technologies, Lincoln Be Smarter can help. Access more advice and resources on our blog, or contact the team for more information by emailing lincolnbesmarter@lincoln.ac.uk.