HootSuite Social Media Management

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HootSuite HQ is buzzing with the development of a number of new tools and applications to help HootSuite enthusiasts enhance their experience on the dashboard.

Next up is the HootSuite Social Share tool which allows partners and their followers to spread messages to even greater audiences across multiple networks.

Today we’re pleased to announce the venerable email marketing company, Constant Contact, as a launch partner with HootSuite. They’ve built the Social Share tool right in to their latest release for the convenience of their customers.

And, whether you are a big company or an emerging blogger, HootSuite’s Social Share is ready to go for you today.

Easy Sharing

HootSuite Social Share Example

The social share tool acts much like the beloved Hootlet. A simple click pops open a window pre-populated with your custom messaging that your fans can add their thoughts to and share on whichever networks they choose. Plus your audience can use all the usual HootSuite tools like scheduling, adding images and more.

Implementing this tool couldn’t be easier — simply add the code snippet to a blog, newsletter, or website and your readers can quickly amplify across their social graph.

Social Email

Constant Contact has baked the Social Share button right into their web dashboard. Customers can share across all social networks with a tool that’s fully integrated into their familiar interface.

What’s more, we’ve streamlined the account provisioning process, meaning that Constant Contact customers can create a HootSuite account in just a few steps — no forms, no applications, just a click and you’re good to go.

HootSuite Social Share for Constant Contact

This integration builds upon our co-marketing agreement with Constant Contact, and will allow Constant Contact customers to easily pass along their email marketing messages to any HootSuite-ready social network.

In their blog post titled, Constant Contact and HootSuite Together Make Social Sharing Easier, Constant Contact had this to say:

That’s right, Constant Contact has partnered with HootSuite as part of HootSuite’s new Social Share feature, and it has multiple benefits for our users. With HootSuite, you can sit down for 30 minutes at the beginning of the week and create five, 10, or more posts — for Twitter, Facebook, or other sites — all at once. You can then schedule them to go live on different days and at different times throughout the week, and they’ll automatically be posted for you. If your posts contain a link — say to a coupon or event you created in Constant Contact — HootSuite will even track how many clicks you’ve received.”

Plans to Share

We’ve built two versions of this tool in order to reach the most number of users:

A Pro version for bloggers and independent site publishers.
An Enterprise version for large companies with vast audiences for more ways to share.

Here’s the basics of how Social Share can help spread your content:

Multiple Networks: Post messages simultaneously across channels

Schedule Messages: Send messages at optimal times

Image and File Sharing: Upload images, PDF files and other supported documents

Data Analysis: Users can examine their campaigns with click statistics

Rapid Integration: Should take under 10 minutes to enable

Enterprise plan holders can also utilize auto account provisioning, Ow.ly vanity URL integration and enhanced analytics and tracking.

Start Sharing

Ready to add this to your account to further engage with your audiences? Go to hootsuite.com/social-share for more.

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Localization and Blackberry 1st Look

Plenty of news from HootSuite recently so you know the Owls at the HQ aren’t slowing down for the summer. Today, HootSuite announces a global crowd-sourced project to translate and localize HootSuite for users around the world. Plus, we’re sharing a sneak peek of the coveted Blackberry app.

Crowd-Sourced Translation

Do you speak geek in multiple languages? Great! We want you to be a star in your community by joining the HootSuite translation project.

So far, HootSuite is localized in English and Japanese, but with updates coming in from all around the world (including far-flung locales like Palau and the Faroe Islands), we want to make life a wee bit Hoot-ier for everyone.

To accomplish this mission, we need help from a few wise Owls to play the translate game:

1. Sign up for the HootSuite translation project
2. Choose your languages and projects
3. Submit appropriate words for approval
4. Bask in the glow of your good deeds

We’re starting with a few popular tongues but welcome your suggestions about which language we should add next. We’re also curious to see which language will be first to go live? Portuguese and Dutch are safe bets but maybe Russian or Chinese will storm to the top of the leader board. Whichever is the winner, expect to see a custom Owly design to celebrate.

Fascinated by linguistic nuance? Apply to be a language translation coordinator which means you’ll give the thumbs-up on the submitted translation candidates before pushing live to the applause of thousands.

Watching the Hoots

Some fans want to know *everything* about HootSuite. If you seek knowledge, consider following @HootWatch– a back-channel account which shares a firehose of HootSuite media mentions and fan reactions.

Curious about who’s using HootSuite? Choose a few @HootWatch lists to follow well-know brands, famous artists, government agencies, education institutions who choose HootSuite for their social media forays.

Plug-ins, Extensions and Apps

While the web version is the most-used variation of HootSuite’s social media dashboard, you can also run HootSuite as a standalone app, add browser extensions, or utilize the Hootlet to enhance your experience.

The Hootlet is the social media aficionado’s secret weapon. Add this bookmarklet to quickly create an update from any web page. A single click pops open a messages already pre-populated with a short link and the page’s <title> tag. You can then edit, schedule or send like any other message. Also available as a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome.

Grab the apps and learn all about these mighty tools at the Help Desk.

A Very Berry Owl

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Blackberry fans are adamantly vocal about their desire to Hoot from their beloved ‘berrys — and the wait is almost over! Soon fans everywhere will have a ‘berry-ready Owl with Facebook and Twitter in your hand — just don’t squish it!

To quench your desire, here are the first screenshots of HootSuite for Blackberry to share with your colleagues.

The pilot batch of HootSuite for Blackberry beta users are testing the first iteration with more invites going out soon (we haven’t forgotten about the thousands of you who signed up to test).

Haven’t added your name to the beta list yet? Get on board by signing-up for the HootSuite for Blackberry beta program to be ahead of the curve.

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We call the Hootlet our secret weapon because it has the power to completely change how you use Twitter. Want to share a link? No need to leave the page. Hit the Hootlet button, and your tweet is almost done. Automatically, the URL is shortened and text is grabbed from the site’s <title> tag. It’s that easy!

So what is the Hootlet like in action? Let’s take a peek.

Installation

It can’t get any simpler than this. To install the Hootlet, you drag and drop it into the bookmark bar. Still confused? Don’t worry, we got this nifty YouTube tutorial.

Using the Hootlet

The Hootlet takes simplicity to insane heights. What must you do to use it? Press the Hootlet button in the bookmark bar.

Once you do that, a new window pops up. Your URL has been shrunk with our ow.ly URL shortener, and the tweet is ready to go. But what makes the Hootlet more amazing is the ability to schedule!

What’s HootSuite if you can’t manage multiple accounts? You can do that from the Hootlet too. Click on the profiles you want to use for tweeting, and a checkmark confirms what accounts will send the message.

How Can the Hootlet Help?

The Hootlet saves time. With it, you no longer have to manually shorten a URL — an ow.ly link is provided automatically. Headlines are grabbed from the source’s <title> tag and are used as default text. Best of all, you never have to leave a site to tweet about. This is why the Hootlet is our secret weapon — and will be yours too.

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Thanks to your excellent feedback, the team at HootSuite’s been busy. We’ve added features and improvements to your favourite one-stop twitter tool.

New Features:

• Tweet monetization thanks to Google AdSense integration with Ow.ly. If you have a Google AdSense account, you can add your own ads to any ow.ly-shortened links you send out.
• Ability to tweet RSS feeds. Each RSS tweet gets its own ow.ly URL, so you can track clickthroughs on every new blog post.
• Our very own bookmarklet, Hootlet! Allows you to instantly tweet the URL of any page you’re on without visiting HootSuite.com.
• Sync your avatar with Twitter.com. Users can instantly update their Twitter profile image at HootSuite if it’s changed at Twitter, without re-uploading the image.

Improvements:

• Increased DM characters to 280, to reflect the latest Twitter change
• Re-organized the Settings page, so it’s now grouped by tab
• Added ‘Confirm Email’ field in sign-up (to eliminate email typos)
• Added an “auto initials” function when creating new tweets -BK
• Added an in-line login box popup for session timeouts
• Implemented better Ajax error handling
• And a bunch of other small bug fixes….

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