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Best of new HootSuite5: drag & drop, keyword filters, message drafts
Shortly after I began using Twitter, I became aware of many of the Twitter tools available -Twhirl, TweetDeck, and HootSuite. I used all of these on occasion, but eventually settled on HootSuite as my social media dashboard of choice.
The ‘Send Later’ option was always a plus and made it very easy to schedule tweets at a later date. The dashboard for organizing tweets provided a quick glance for viewing mentions, direct messages, sent tweets, received tweets, and with a later release – searches, and lists.
HootSuite was designed for Twitter initially, but later releases included a very user-friendly interface that allowed other social networks to be updated when posting messages to Twitter – notably LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace. One of the more recent releases added WordPress and Foursquare to the social network options.
I took a closer look at the new HootSuite5 release that came out at the end of June, and found many new features, changes, and innovations that provide better ways to share updates, engage followers, track mentions, and gather site analytics.
My most recent Examiner article provides a more in-depth review of many of the new features and can be viewed at – HootSuite5 adds new features: drag & drop, keyword filters, message drafts & more
A few excerpts from the article follow -
HootSuite5 arrived on June 24, 2010 with new features including Monitor Mentions, New Retweets, Custom Interface, Drag & Drop, Facebook+, Google Analytics, and Team Collaboration, to name a few.
Hootsuite continues to drive innovation and enhance its very popular social media dashboard with more features to engage customers and followers, a custom interface to change themes, native Twitter Retweets, and integrated Google Analytics. Other highlights include improvements to the Facebook interface, saving messages as drafts to send later, tracking keyword mentions, and a RSS feed option.
Helpful links for more information
http://blog.hootsuite.com/hootsuite-html-5/
http://blog.hootsuite.com/social-owl-news-roundup/
http://blog.hootsuite.com/social-customer-relationship/
The world of social media continues to evolve, and the Hootsuite dashboard remains at the forefront as a very helpful, time-saving tool for organizing, updating, viewing, and sharing information across social networks.
Frequent releases add new innovative features, tools, interfaces, and ways to monitor brand mentions via keywords, searches, and site analytics. The challenge is to become of aware of the new tools as they become available and put them to work for you.
I hope this article will help both those new to Hootsuite, and previous Hootsuite users, find some useful tools and tips to better engage followers, grow a wider network, and save valuable time along the way.
To view other Richmond Social Media Examiner articles that may be of interest, click here.
