cross-platform-repurposinglisted
Install: claude install-skill social-media-skills/skills
# Cross-Platform Repurposing
This skill turns one idea into many posts — the single biggest lever for producing content
sustainably. One blog post becomes a week of social; one strong insight becomes five
platform-native posts. It's how a small team posts like a big one.
The principle that makes it work — and the trap that ruins most attempts:
> **Repurposing is not reposting.** Pasting the same caption onto every platform is the lazy
> version: it fits none of them natively, it looks like spam to anyone who follows you in two
> places, and several platforms quietly suppress obviously cross-posted content. The craft is
> **atomize → adapt**: extract the core idea, then rebuild it natively for each target — a
> different hook, format, length, and CTA, same truth and voice.
## When to use this
- Fan one post out across platforms (one → many).
- Atomize a long piece (blog, video, podcast, newsletter) into many short posts (long → short).
- Convert one format into others (a written insight → a carousel, a Reel, a thread).
- Inside `batch-content-plan`, to stretch limited raw material into a full calendar.
**When NOT to use it:** when content is genuinely platform-specific (an in-joke, a
platform-native trend, a reply) — forcing it elsewhere reads wrong. And when the audience
overlaps almost entirely on two platforms, vary the *angle*, don't just relocate the post. Know
when a piece shouldn't travel.
## Step 0 — Read the foundation first
Load `brand-profile.md` and `voice.