Share your channel with your team

Your channel is yours. A LinkedIn or X account you connect as a personal account stays private to you — Admins and the Owner have no implicit power over it, can't publish through it, and don't see it in detail until you decide to share. Sharing is something you grant, one toggle at a time, and can revoke whenever you want. This guide covers the sharing controls on a personal channel; company channels behave differently and are described at the end.

Open Manage sharing

1. Go to Settings -> Channels in the sidebar.
2. Find your channel under Connected accounts on the Publishing accounts (or Engagement accounts) tab.
3. Click the share icon on the row — its tooltip reads Manage sharing.
4. The Manage sharing dialog opens. For a personal channel its subtitle reads "Personal account — only you can use it unless you share it below."

note

Only the channel's owner can open Manage sharing on a personal channel. On a company channel, any Admin or the Owner can.

The two sharing toggles

A personal channel gives you two independent switches. Grant one, both, or neither.

• Admins can draft posts for this account — "They queue, you approve. Nothing publishes without you." Admins can draft and schedule posts that target your channel, but every one routes to you as an approval first. Nothing reaches the network without your sign-off.
• Admins can engage as this account — "Like and comment on team posts. Every action is logged in Activity." Admins can fire likes and comments as your channel on the team's posts. Every action is recorded in the channel's activity feed, attributed to whoever triggered it.

Neither toggle lets an Admin publish an original post through your channel — that requires trust or converting to a company channel. To hand one person full publishing rights instead, see Add trusted members.

The badges teammates see

Wherever your channel appears to a teammate — the account pickers, the Overview tab — a badge tells them what they may do with it:

Badge	Meaning
Trusted	"You can publish directly because the owner trusted you." This teammate is a trusted member.
Company	The channel is a company account, run by all Admins and the Owner.
Drafting	Personal channel with Admins can draft posts for this account on.
Engagement	Personal channel with Admins can engage as this account on.
Private	"Only the owner can use this account." Nothing has been shared.

Convert to a company account

In Manage sharing, use Convert to company account to hand the channel to the whole workspace. What changes:

• The channel becomes visible to every member.
• All Admins and the Owner can publish directly through it with no approval, and they become its approvers.
• Members can propose posts to it, which route to the Admins for approval.

warning

Converting to a company account gives every Admin direct-publish rights on the channel — no approval step. Only convert a channel you're comfortable having Admins post through unattended.

Use Convert to personal account to reverse it; the channel becomes private to you again and any drafting/engagement toggles apply from there.

Revoke access

Any grant can be pulled back — flip a toggle off, remove a trusted member, or convert back to personal. Revocation is re-checked at publish time: if you revoke someone's access between when they scheduled a post and when it's due to go out, that post re-routes to approval instead of publishing. Nothing slips through on a stale grant.

What "private" means to everyone else

Until you share it, your channel is private. Teammates who aren't Admins don't see it at all. In the admin-only Overview tab, Admins see private channels as counts only — never the account detail, its drafts, or its usage. Any post or profile a viewer isn't allowed to see is redacted rather than shown. Who can see and do what with each channel kind is laid out in Sharing and permissions.