Hootsuite.com

Why Hootsuite?

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We use Hootsuite to manage all our social media accounts. It means you can

write one message and select which accounts you would like to post it to.

And don’t worry it doesn’t cost a thing for a basic account!

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What do these icons mean??

Reply: you can respond to a

specific tweet and you

response will be attached as a

‘conversation’ to the original

post.

Retweet: you can re-post a particular

tweet for your own followers to see. If you

do this the tweet will start with ‘RT’ which

shows your followers that you have

retweeted it from somebody else.

Direct message:

you can privately

message someone

about a specific

tweet

Reply all: you

can tweet all

the people

mentioned in a

particular

tweet.

Favourite: If you favourite a tweet

it means it will be saved in your

‘favourites' folder on your twitter

account. To view your favourites

you need to log directly into

twitter.com

Send to

email: will

forward the

specific tweet

to your email

Ignore the last to they are

for Pro account users.

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How to post on Hootsuite

When you click on the ‘compose a message...’ box, to opens out so you can

write your post. (Don’t forget that you can only write in a 140 characters for twitter otherwise it will truncate your post.

But if you are not posting to Twitter then you can write as much as you like!)

Hootsuite is great if you want to add a link to a post. You copy the link into the

box and press ‘shrink’. It will make your link a lot shorter, meaning you have

more characters spare for what you want to say.

You can also add attachments, locations and schedule your tweet to be posted

on a specific day at a specific time!

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How to post on Hootsuite (cont.)

Once you have written your post, click on the ‘Click to select your profile box...’

A drop down list will appear of all your social media accounts, and you can

choose one or more to send the post to.

Then all you need to do is press ‘Send Now’ and your post will be automatically

sent to the accounts you have chosen.