Automate Trending Social Content in 3 Minutes - (Video)

Set Up Scheduled ChatGPT Tasks for Trending Industry News

Author

Luke Thompson
May 14, 2025

Quick Glance

  • 🔍 Why Automating Content Matters

  • ▶️ 3-Minute Video Tutorial

  • 🛠️ How to Set Up Your Scheduled Task

  • 📝 Steal My Writing Prompt

Why Automating Content Matters

Keeping your LinkedIn feed fresh with relevant, timely posts is key to building thought leadership in operations, workforce management, and AI. But it can eat up precious hours each week. By automating the discovery of trending topics and the initial draft creation, you stay top-of-mind without the scramble for ideas.

▶️ Full Video Tutorial

In just three minutes, learn how to:

  1. Search top trending LinkedIn news (or any other source) each morning

  2. Have it select 2–3 topics aligned with your expertise

  3. Auto-draft fully formatted posts you can copy + paste

How to Set Up Your Scheduled Task

  1. Sign into your OpenAI account

  2. Create the Scheduled Task in ChatGPT

You can simply ask it in any chat to create the scheduled task for you. Just replace my below prompt with your information and general interests. ChatGPT will do the rest. 

Each morning: Search for the day’s top trending news.

From those headlines, choose two stories that relate to business operations, workforce management, or AI.

For each story, draft one fully formatted LinkedIn post that: • Follows my established writing framework (do not use em-dashes). • Includes a brief summary of the news. • Provides a clear CTA and a link to the original source. • Reflects my generally contrarian point of view.

For each post, generate a 9×16-aspect-ratio abstract image that: • Visually aligns with the topic. • Sneakily incorporates the word “Luke” into the design.

Also supply a complete text description for each image, so I can reference it later.

Before writing, be sure to incorporate the examples of my writing style and reference material which I will provide below = 

- Insert Writing References Here -

ChatGPT will confirm your new task directly within your existing chat. Before you save it, make sure to also paste in your writing references so that it can successfully sound like you.

Not sure what I’m talking about? You can steal mine, here. 🙂 

This ensures each post truly reflects your voice without the awkward guesswork.

Here is a link to one of these content pieces following this workflow out in the wild.

Got questions or ideas for more LinkedIn automations? Hit reply. I’d love to hear how this works for you.

-Luke