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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:
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.
Click for a larger view of HootSuite for Blackberry®
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).
This Owl looks somewhat stern -- pic contrib'ed by @AnneWeiskopf
Something amiss in your streams? Well, you’re not the only one.
Twitter’s API is currently experiencing a critical issue that is causing problems in some third-party clients, including HootSuite.
As such, you may notice that your Home or Mention streams on HootSuite.com are not updating correctly. This is a symptom of the issue with Twitter’s API.
Geek note: API stands for Application Programming Interface which allows sites like Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin to share data with HootSuite.
HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for Android are also affected by this bug. Some users are experiencing crashes when viewing certain streams. Again, this is due to a problem with Twitter’s API.
Twitter is aware of the issue and are working on resolving this as soon as possible. Meanwhile at HootSuite HQ, we thank you for your patience.
Buzzom Premium gives you the ability to schedule your messages which can be posted at any desired time to your social networks. All you need to do is specify the date and time of the post and the system will update it for you in Twitter, Facebook, Facebook pages, LinkedIn and MySpace. Scheduling messages one by one can be tiresome at times and if you like to schedule a lot of messages at once, you’d rather go for Bulk Upload.
Below are the steps for scheduling messages in bulk as CSV or Excel.
Step 1: Click on ‘Upload Excel’.
Step 2: Click on ‘Download CSV’ or ‘Download Excel’.
Step 3: Put your Twitter ID in the ‘Username’ column, message in the ‘Message Column. Use Y and N for the next four columns based on whether you want them to be scheduled for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace respectively. If you have mentioned Y for Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, Please make sure that you have associated these network accounts to your main Twitter account. If no, please go to ‘Account Management’ and associate them first.
Step 4: If you want the messages to repeat, please type the following options:
RD: for Repeat Daily
RW: for Repeat Weekly
RBW: for Repeat BiWeekly
RM: for Repeat Monthly.
Step 5: Type the correct date and time in ‘Schedule on’ column. Make sure you type a data and time which has not passed already.
Step 6: Please save this file in your system and click on ‘Choose File’ in the box that’s already open in your browser. Click on ‘Ok’
Step 7: Go to ‘Queued Status’ tab and check if the messages have been scheduled.
How many of you know more than just 2/3 language? Don’t you think it is a problem when you are presented with a text in another language. What if the text contained a very important message?
We have observed that in Twitter, people tend to be comfortable with their own language and tend to tweet on their own language. Similar with other networking sites. Specially in Twitter, we have contacts from over the world hence understanding their language is a pain. You would have to use third party application to translate and re-translate the updates.
Well, you don’t have to have such headache anymore. Buzzom gives you an easily accessible translate button which will let you translate the Tweets/Updates into any other language.
Along every updates, you can view the Translate button, simple click on it and choose your language of interest. You are given 53 different language options. Just click on it and the new translated language will appear.
In addition to that, you can even translate your replies and update. This will make sure that your respondent will understand your replies.
We hope that this new feature will help user be more interactive with their contacts and help build good relationships.
If you all have any suggestions or queries, please comment on the post below or simply send you message at buzzom@in-rev.com.
As promised, we have put together some additional tips for using bit.ly with a number of popular cut-and-paste sharing buttons and widgets including the Twitter Tweet Button.
Please visit our guide to Third-Party Tools For Publishers. This page includes working examples and code snippets for the most popular sharing tools.
For smaller publishers who cannot cache links on their backend, we are now providing a simple JavaScript wrapper for sharing bit.ly links using the Twitter Tweet Button:
Be sure to use your bit.ly login and API Key (which you can always find at http://www.bit.ly/a/your_api_key) with the code above.
This implementation simply shortens the page URL and then displays the Twitter Tweet Button in its standard fashion. All Tweet Button functionality is maintained. And, since our JavaScript wrapper uses your bit.ly login and API Key, it will automatically return custom bit.ly short domains for Pro and Enterprise users.
If you have any questions about using bit.ly with this or any other publishing tools or platforms - or have your own tips or tricks for using bit.ly with the sharing tools of your choice - do not hesitate to contact support@bit.ly!
Buzzom Mentorship program is constructed to help businesses use Buzzom’s application to gain presence over the Online Networking Sites. As time is changing, Buzzom has found it essential to educate and train people to understand the online social eco-system and use it for their benefits.
Buzzom Mentorship program contains three stages:
1. Basic understanding of Social Networking Sites and Business
2. Understanding different types of Social Media Campaigns
3. Using Buzzom’s Tool to achieve defined goals of Social Media Campaigns
The goal of this program is to help SME get trained Social Media skills and leverage their online eco-system.
People search is one of the most important and powerful feature of Buzzom. Since its launch we have been adding advance features to the system to make people search more interesting and efficient. Recently, we added advance filter option that allowed user to add different search criteria like bio, location and name.
Today, we are announcing an interesting feature to Buzzom People search. The new feature allows you to filter the search result according to :
1. Followers count
2. Following count
3. Profile Image present or absent
These criteria will allow to be more efficient in your people search.
Above image clearly shows how you can access the new features. Just click on the Advance Search option and you are given advance options.
You can choose either ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ option in Follower and Following count. Then there is a simple check box for image only option.
Please, keep giving us feed backs about our services. We have been encouraged by our users response so keep us encouraging and we will bring more to product.
Owls are everywhere — or they seem to be at least — with conversations and coverage about HootSuite coming in from all corners of the globe.
To explore the opinions and anecdotes, we head east for a trip … starting in France and Spain, before flying over Eastern Europe to Russia, then moving towards China for a stopover before a return to Japan for more news from the enthused fans in Nippon.
Back in the nest in Vancouver after the whirlwind world trip, we sorted out the souvenirs and packaged up a fresh news round-up of very owl-ized articles for your international (albeit auto-translated) enjoyment.
So, put your seats and trays in an upright position and fasten your seatbelts for take-off across the Atlantic and the Pacific:
HootSuite adds CRM tools and features to its iPhone application Foursquare – If you are using as a client HootSuite Twitter, the service also offers the ability to filter information according to the level of influence of those you follow. Thus, you can determine a score Klout minimum for a tweet appears on your space.
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The party continues is over: HootSuite payment - One day had to happen. HootSuite, one of the best tools to manage social networks, was becoming too good to be true. Or at least, to be true and free.
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Not the end of the world. The average user can use HootSuite as normal, a little lost. Yes, HootSuite in free version is the level (so that by eye) of Tweetdeck or Seesmic. Professionally can continue to serve for accounts with low volume and did not need a team behind.
How many sotsiaalvõrgustikus-out from one place to follow? - Today, the majority of active Internet users in Estonia joined some social networking, in order to obtain information and communicate with friends there. The more accounts, but it no longer be visiting the various portals. Help in the Web services and applications that bring together social media accounts in one place together. Tutuvstan briefly own favorite – Hootsuite.
Hootsuite 10 benefits for the management of social media – Hootsuite is a website that will change your perspective on social media. Hootsuite is a web application that allows you to work with social media effectively. Hootsuite addictive application that will make you write an article for it without getting paid. I’ve never wrote a review of the software or online application. Hootsuite is but a tool, which you should at least consider, if you want to manage more than one account on the social networks.
This article mentions the new features in HootSuite and also includes 2 videos in Russian with a detailed overview:
New Features in HootSuite for communication in Twitter – HootSuite is an excellent service to work effectively in Twitter. Yesterday they presented new opportunities for all users.
HootSuite Twitter users according to impact category – Beijing July 15, according to the foreign media reports, the social media management platform Hootsuite announced yesterday a launch of several new features to help SMEs better understand what Twitter users’ concerns are. HootSuite (hootsuite.com) is clearly trying to make more satisfied business owners.
This article is in English, but it covers the Japanese version of our service and has some insights from the HootSuite CEO, Ryan Holmes:
This week I attended a Digital Garage sponsored Open Network Lab event where I had a chance to chat with HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes who was in Japan to spread the word about his powerful Twitter client. <…> Ryan revealed big plans for HootSuite in Japan. I was surprised to learn that he was able to meet with Softbank’s godfather Masayoshi Son.
You haven’t stopped talking about HootSuite so we’ll keep sharing stories with another HootSuite news round-up loaded with your comments, case studies and compelling projects.
With the new school semester just around the corner, we thought now is a great time to see how social media can be used for research, sourcing and even librarians’ work. Plus, for new HootSuite owls, we’ve added in a couple of general articles and tutorials to help you earn an A+ in social media management.
As always, we invite you to follow HootSuite’s social bookmarks and/or follow @hootwatch to get the full firehose of knowledge. And now… here’s your homework:
Mike Petroff and his team at Emerson College are using HootSuite to help organize their social media efforts:
Hootsuite allows our account administrators to personalize the look and feel of their account, adding dashboard columns of search terms specific to their office. It also makes sharing and assigning replies between account administrators incredibly easy and traceable. Very rarely do tweets from our community go unnoticed. We can also share access to upcoming tweets and be on the same page with the events, stories and content that we’re promoting for a given week.
This blogpost presents HootSuite to all librarians out there:
Librarians, If you have a Twitter account for your library, I highly recommend tweeting from HootSuite.com. If you currently tweet from the original web version of Twitter.com, follow these instructions to simplify tweeting on behalf of your library.
This article focuses on different tools for managing Twitter, and the owl isn’t left out:
HootSuite—a great tool (and my personal favorite) with a user-friendly interface. All the standard Twitter functions plus the ability to track keywords and trends, post directly to Facebook, schedule posts, put followers into groups and the ability to manage multiple accounts. You can also track clickthroughs on your embedded links. HootSuite has both desktop and mobile versions.
This is a step-by-step guide to setting up HootSuite account with different social networks:
HootSuite is a web-based solution that allows you to manage your conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ping.fm, WordPress.com, MySpace, and FourSquare from a single application. Let’s look at setting up HootSuite to manage your activity on Twitter and Facebook.
Another good video aimed at non-profit groups which takes you through the process of adding HootSuite account:
The screencast above helps nonprofits take advantage of HootSuite’s new capabilities. As I say in this short tutorial, it’s one tool to manage your organization’s presence across a wide range of social networks. Very cool.
This is a detailed list of HootSuite’s features that help distribute your content through social networks like never before:
I have found a savior in the social networking/self-promotion/getting more PV’s venue and it’s as simple as they come. Check out the amazing HootSuite, it does everything all at once for you. I’m new to using their free service and even on my first day trying it, I fell in love. It’s a wonder, and a breeze to use.
Our wise geeks at Mashable included HootSuite in one of their latest round-ups (and yes, we enjoy each time this excellent tech/web/social news site mentions us;-)):
Hootsuite has a broad range of apps, including their web-based original, mobile apps (iPhone and Android), desktop apps (Windows , Mac and Linux) and add-ons for Firefox and Chrome, all with the power to schedule updates.
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