Hootsuite Upgrade Gives Great Flexibility In Posting

Using Hootsuite to update twitter along with your other social networks simultaneously by integrating it with ping.fm has just gotten sweeter!

I have been a fan of  Hootsuite for the past 9 months.  Prior to the recent upgrade if you wanted to schedule updates to all your social networks you would simply click your twitter account and it would not only go to twitter but to every account you have linked to ping.fm. The most recent update to Hootsuite changes that game slightly but gives great flexibility I’ve been yearning for. You may notice that there is now a ping.fm account icon in addition to your other accounts. This feature now allows you to update a single twitter account or everything via ping.fm. In the past, I had no way to simply tweet.

Now we can do all of the following with Hootsuite:

• Schedule status updates for any one or any combination of your twitter accounts, facebook and/or LinkedIn account
• Schedule updates for everything via ping.fm

Yay Hootsuite!

One important thing I need to mention is that if you had any prior tweets set up to go via ping.fm prior to the Hootsuite upgrade, it will now only go to the twitter account. If you want them to go via ping.fm, you’ll need to redo them.

Also, I found out that if you want to change the time of a pending update, edit the time and date and then click “Send Now.” That doesn’t really send it now… it just SAVES your new time.  If you don’t click the “Send Now” button and you just close the popup window after changing the date and time, the date and time remains the same as before you adjusted it.

Hootsuite does one other amazing thing I thought I’d mention… AUTOmatically import your blog posts. Can it get any better?

Please share your secrets to using Hootsuite. We can all learn from each other.

Woot Woot to Hootsuite!

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