To tag people or Company Pages in a scheduled LinkedIn post with SkedCast, type @ in the LinkedIn caption or click Mention, search for the name, and pick the person or Page. The mention is saved in the post and publishes as a real, clickable LinkedIn tag that notifies them, exactly as if you had tagged them in LinkedIn itself.
Key takeaways
- Type @ or click Mention in the LinkedIn caption to search for a person or Company Page.
- Pick the match and the caption shows it as @Name; it publishes as a real, clickable tag.
- Tagged people and Pages are notified when the post goes live, as with a tag made in LinkedIn.
- Editing any part of a mentioned name turns it back into plain text, so a tag never points at the wrong person.
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How do you tag someone in a scheduled LinkedIn post?
Write the post in SkedCast’s composer, then mention people and Pages in the LinkedIn caption:
Open the LinkedIn caption
In the composer, select the LinkedIn tab for the post (each network keeps its own version of the caption).
Start a mention
Type @ or click Mention beside the caption.
Search and pick
Type the person’s or Company Page’s name, press Enter to search, and choose the match with the arrow keys or a click.
Schedule the post
The caption shows the mention as @Name. At the scheduled time it publishes as a clickable LinkedIn tag.
What happens to the mention when the post publishes?
SkedCast stores each mention in the form LinkedIn reads, so the published post carries a real tag: the name links to the person’s profile or the Page, and LinkedIn notifies them as it does for any tag. Other networks keep their own captions, so a LinkedIn mention never appears as stray text on Facebook or X.
How does LinkedIn store a tag in a post?
As a reference, not as text. LinkedIn’s API documentation describes a post’s text in its “little” text format, where a mention is written as the name in square brackets followed by the person’s or organization’s LinkedIn ID: @[Name](urn:li:person:…) for a person, @[Name](urn:li:organization:…) for a Company Page. That is why a tag has to be picked from a search rather than typed: a name typed by hand has no ID behind it, so it publishes as plain text and notifies no one. The same format also carries hashtags, and characters it reserves must be escaped to show as plain text.
Can you edit a caption that already has a mention?
Yes. Text around a mention edits normally. A mention is treated as one unit: changing any part of its name turns it back into plain text, so a half-edited name can never publish as a tag pointing at the wrong person. Mention them again to restore the tag.
Which LinkedIn accounts can mention people and Pages?
Mentions work on LinkedIn profiles and Company Pages connected to SkedCast. If the Mention button does not appear for an account, reconnect that LinkedIn account once from Connected accounts.
A post with a mention sits in the content calendar like any other, replies to it land in the social inbox, and the LinkedIn scheduler page covers every other LinkedIn post type SkedCast publishes.
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FAQ
- Can I tag a person in a LinkedIn post I schedule with SkedCast?
- Yes. Type @ or click Mention in the LinkedIn caption, search for the person, and pick them. The mention publishes as a real LinkedIn tag at the scheduled time.
- Can I tag a Company Page in a scheduled LinkedIn post?
- Yes. Company Pages are found and mentioned the same way as people: type @, search for the Page, and choose it.
- Does the person get notified when the scheduled post goes live?
- Yes. The published mention is a normal LinkedIn tag, so LinkedIn notifies the person or Page as it does for a tag made in its own app.
- Can I tag someone by typing their name?
- Not on LinkedIn. A tag needs the person’s or Page’s LinkedIn ID behind it, so pick them from the @ search; a name typed by hand publishes as plain text.
- Why does the Mention button not appear?
- Reconnect that LinkedIn account once from Connected accounts; mentions then work on its posts.
- Do mentions carry over to other networks in the same post?
- No. Each network keeps its own caption, so a LinkedIn mention stays in the LinkedIn version only.