Hootsuite Brings Back Pending Tweets Column!
Jun 24th
Last Wednesday I wrote an article about Hootsuite and the new Publisher features. During this upgrade, they removed the Pending Tweets Column from the dashboard in favor of the Calendar View under the publisher tab. As of Yesterday (June 23rd, 2011), Hootsuite gave us back our Pending Tweets Column by popular demand.
Pending Tweets Column or Scheduler, The Choice is Yours!Although I love the new Scheduler/Publish View, I quickly started to miss the Pending Tweets Column. From what Hootsuite found, the new scheduler features were a success for enterprise and large companies but, for the small business and individual users, they More >
Streamline Your Social Media Status Updates With the New Hootsuite Publisher
Jun 15th
Hootsuite does it again! They have added even more great features to their already feature packed dashboard. Now they gone and streamlined your scheduled updates, selection of profiles, and broadcast messages to your audiences.
Scheduling Your Status Updates across Multiple Networks Just Got Easier!Do you schedule a lot of tweets, do you schedule updates for multiple networks as well, are you tired of flipping between tabs to see all your pending tweets? Then your in luck! Hootsuite did away with the pending tweets/status updates columns in favor of a calendar view.
When looking at the calendar, you have options you would find More >
Hootsuite Now Offers Custom Social Analytic Reports
Mar 10th
Since Hootsuite was released, the creators have worked at keeping Hootsuite as one of the best and most popular Twitter clients available. Hootsuite has worked from the beginning to create the best user experience that you can get from a Twitter client. The creators, listen to their users requests and added features such as monitor and updating multiple social networks. and adding mobile clients to the list of options available for Hootsuite users. On March 9th, 2011 Hootsuite released another great update to their built in analytic reports. If you are a fan of stats and tracking your success on Twitter and More >
Twitter Tools That I Can’t Live Without
Jan 28th
Using Twitter is not only about creating guidelines and following those, its about tweeting content to your followers and engaging with them. When tweeting content, it should be relevant to your niche. If it’s not relevant then you could start loosing your followers. So in general, try and keep your tweets on topic. But at no time should you ignore your @mentions (unless they are spammers) and your followers, even it is off topic. For me, I pretty much stay on topic. Sometimes I find stuff that is off topic and I think it’s important to share, then I will share More >
Guidelines I Follow When Using Twitter
Jan 21st
Today, I that I would share with some tips and resources for new Twitter users and those Twitter users looking for advice on how to better use Twitter. This article will be broken down into two parts because there is simply too much information to list in one article. Part two will be posted next week. This short series is mostly about what works for me and my experiences with Twitter. Edited article Feb. 11, 2011
- Part one is all about how I use Twitter and the guidelines I follow.
- Part two is all about the tools and resources I use daily to More >
How to Avoid Going Pro With Hootsuite
Dec 20th
About a month ago I wrote an article about Hootsuite Pro and what Hootsuite users who want stick with the Free version but still needs features of the pro version. In that article I mentioned different services that we can use that will do the same things as Hootsuite, but you have to use several different services to do all things that the pro version can.
Most long time users of Hootsuite who have been using all of the features offered by Hootsuite and loving it but, about a month ago, they put a lot of these great features to limited More >
Twitter’s "onMouseOver" incident Resolved
Sep 24th
Earlier this week I reported a security flaw with "onMouseOver" links on the website only caused third party websites to popup whenever a user mousedover certain links.
A few minutes ago, I was checking on Twitter’s blog to see what the status was on the security flaw and see if they made a statement as to what truly was going on. I found that Twitter has already fixed this issue but their blog post about the issue was posted later in the day.
I checked several times through out the week on this issue and no other sites where reported this issue to More >
Caution: Twitter Mousover Security Flaw
Sep 21st
Earlier today Sophos website released a warning about Twitter mouseover and how some users are exploiting a new security flaw using mouseovers. This exploit causes popups and thirdparty websites to popup in your browser by just moving your mouse over the link. Right now most users are using the exploit to create a rainbow effect in their tweets. Because of this "loophole" some users may use it to hide the true content. Below is an example what some are doing with the flaw.
Potential ThreatsAs a tech support professional this is a big deal to me. Before getting into web design, More >
Separating your Social Profiles: Professional or Personal?
Sep 20th
Social media sites have surpassed television as a way to spend time, but they also present a number of great opportunities for businesses to stay in touch with their clientele. Having a strong social media presence today is comparable to having active television ad campaigns in the past. If you plan to incorporate social networking in your business, you need to know what types of accounts there are and the rules for each one.
What Kinds of Accounts Are There?There are three main types of accounts:
- A personal account is one created for yourself, primarily to connect with friends, relatives, More >
The New Twitter, Are You Ready?
Sep 17th
Are you ready for the new Twitter? Earlier this week Twitter announced that the starting Tuesday 14th, 2010 they are rolling out a new Twitter that would slowly be released over the next few weeks. And no, I am not one of the lucky few that get to test this out. But one I get my hands on it will give you review. But from what I found out about it looks good and its finally catching with some of the other micro blogging sites. But is it too late, or is Twitter only going to get better and more popular? More >
Hootsuite Has Introduced Freemium Plans
Aug 11th
Earlier today Hootsuite annouced that they are now offering premium packaged plans designed for businesses and organizations, but will continue to offer a free verison for their customers. The packages are tiered to provide useful tools to as many customers as possible and provide advanced tools to those customers who need the business features.
The good knews for those that are not interested in paying for a service, Hootsuite will continue to offer a free services to most of their current users. What this means to me and other users is, we should be able to continue to use Hootsuite the same as More >
Hootsuite Versus TweetDeck
May 7th
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A few weeks ago Dennis Edell wrote a post asking for people to review both Twitter and Hootsuite. Originally this post was going to be posted over at his site Dennis Edell | Personal Coaching, due to issues, I decided to post it here.
I have been using Twitter a little over a year and started using it at an addictive rate sometime last summer. As I grew more knowledgeable about Twitter and various tools that were available; naturally I was attracted to both Hootsuite and TweetDeck. I tried out TweetDeck and found it worked well at that time and continued to More >
