When searching through social media content, it can be time consuming to look up a person’s full profile to learn more about them. Luckily, HootSuite makes this easy with the User Profile Pop-up – a quick way to see user information. To help get you acquainted with the dashboard’s functionality, we have a new #HootTip
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The following is written by Campus Ambassador Ben Heyman. Ben is finishing up his Bachelor of Public Relations at Boston University. He has a high interest in consumer technology and social media and has a broad experience in communications studies. Social media has fundamentally changed the way we communicate and network. It used to be that the
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This post was written by HootSuite Social Media Coach, Kristina Cisnero. There are many ways to set up your HootSuite dashboard. One way is dedicating one of your HootSuite tabs to a single social network like Twitter – loading it up with home feed, mentions, direct messages, sent Tweets and favorite Tweets. However, if you’re
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By HootSuite CEO, Ryan Holmes “…(Sold) to MacDonalds because the whopper flopped” is a phrase that probably still sends shudders down the spines of members of Burger King’s PR team. After all, these were the words emblazoned across the popular fast food chain’s official Twitter profile on the morning of February 18—courtesy of hackers (yet
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The following is written by HootSuite Campus Ambassador Program Coordinator Elaiza Datar. Elaiza graduated from UBC in Political Science and SFU in Digital Communications and spends her time between social media, the outdoors, music, travel, and meeting people. When I graduated from the University of British Columbia, I took a year off to explore the world
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Thanks to social media, businesses today can listen to what the world is saying about their brand or products and respond in real-time. But even with the most avid online monitoring, opportunities (or crises) can be missed—when you’re out of the office, in a meeting, or simply too busy to address a situation immediately. So
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We are proud to announce that Yammer’s former VP Marketing, Dee Anna McPherson, joins HootSuite today as our new Vice President of Marketing. Starting at Yammer in early 2010, Dee Anna helped put the very idea of Enterprise Social Networking on the Map. Sure there was Twitter, but it was Dee Anna who helped usher
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The following is written by HootSuite Campus Ambassador and Syracuse University Student, Adelyn Biedenbach (seen on left in photo). Adelyn is a graduate student at Syracuse University studying new media management. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. her interests outside of her major include hockey, ballet and reading fiction. Whether you aspire to manage social accounts or just establish your
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The following post was written by HootSource Guest Contributor Evan Hadfield. Evan is the son of Canadian Austronaut Chris Hadfield, Commander of the International Space Station. Evan serves as de facto social media manager on behalf of his father, who has become a social media heavyweight in a very short time. What follows is the
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The following is written by HootSuite Campus Ambassador and SFU Student, Elizabeth Moffat. Do you run any sort of club or school association? Whether you’re trying to spread the word about your latest event or just trying to recruit new members, odds are you want to utilize social media to do it. So you’ve set up
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