By Ryan Holmes, HootSuite CEO Think back to your first computer. Was it a PC or a Mac? (Maybe it was a classic 8-bit Commodore 64, even an old Altair 8800, which you had to assemble at home.) Mine was an an Apple IIc that I won in 5th grade through a district-wide school programming
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Seeing is believing. Visualizing social data may be the missing link between the adoption of social throughout an organisation and the C-Suite. Information is power, and when that information is at your fingertips, it empowers the individuals in your organization to make the right decisions and act on them. A social media command center allows
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By Ryan Holmes, HootSuite CEO Let’s do some math. Say you have 1,000 Twitter followers. Your daily tweets reach those 1,000—if you’re lucky. Now let’s suppose you have 1,000 employees, each with an average of 1,000 followers. If they start retweeting your updates, you could suddenly be reaching 1 million followers. Leveraging employee PR power
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By Ryan Holmes, HootSuite CEO Social media has revolutionized communications and changed society. These are the social media game-changers needed in 2013: 1. Big business tackles social media (but does it right). In 2012, Fortune 500 companies took a big social leap: 73% now have active corporate Twitter accounts, 66% have Facebook pages. In fact,
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This post is part of a special series of contributed posts by Joel Windels, Lead Community Manager at Brandwatch—one of the world’s leading tools for monitoring and analyzing social media. Joel will be investigating and uncovering the various ways that social media meets business, and providing you with insight and advice on how to make
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El panel de HootSuite te ofrece gran cantidad de funcionalidades y herramientas para ayudarte a gestionar las redes sociales – y siempre estamos añadiendo nuevas. Aquí tienes una HootTip sobre una funcionalidad de HootSuite que te será de gran utilidad. Debido a la gran cantidad de links enviados desde diferentes fuentes, medir qué canales están
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An article by HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes was featured in Forbes yesterday. Holmes looks at the social media innovations poised to transform the workplace and the way we do our jobs in 2013. You can check out the original article here. In the nine short years since Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, social media has
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By Ryan Holmes, HootSuite CEO In the span of a year, my company grew from 60 to more than 200 employees, expanding from a few rooms in one building to the better part of a city block. Maintaining healthy company culture during such explosive growth has been challenging. But it’s always a top priority, and
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In this US edition of HootSuite’s Twitter Week in Review there was certainly something for both girls and guys, with a mix of Angels, athletes and Anarchy. #VSFashion Taking the top spot, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired on December 4th. The Victoria’s Secret Angels shared the stage with performances by Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Justin
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“Our community is core to our business. From the moment that people land or start their trip, they’re going to be Tweeting and facebooking, they’re basically opening up a conversation and we want to be part of it.” – Venetia Pristavec, Creative Lead Airbnb. Book a home, castle, room or even a private island anywhere
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