A Guide to Setting Up Your Hootsuite Dashboard
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A GUIDE TO SETTING UP YOUR HOOTSUITE
DASHBOARD
BY: NEZEL P. YURONG
BENEFITS OF HOOTSUITE
-You can see all your profiles in one place.-You can schedule updates and links way into the future without having to jump on and off social media all day long.
-With a platform like Twitter (that moves so fast) you can customize your streams so you don’t miss the things you want to see.-You can shorten links to save on characters!
-If you add a Hootsuite extension, you can follow all your favorite blogs!-Anytime you click on the RSS button, a hootsuite box will open up and ask if you want to add that blog to a tab.
-Click save and you’ll be able to access them all in one place!
GETTING STARTED
Go to Hootsuite.com
Click Get Started--Free
Enter your Email
Add your Social Networks
Click Twitter
Enter your Twitter Log in
Click Authorize App
Click Facebook
Enter your Facebook Log in
Click Okay
Click Okay
This is now your Dashboard
To add more of your Social Media, click Add Social Network
Select what you want to add
To add Google Page, click Google
Click Allow
Click Finished Importing
Do the same with your other Social Media Networks
This is what your Dashboard would look like
ADDING STREAMS
Once your profiles are linked, it’s time to add Streams
Think of Streams like different trails of
conversation
To add, click Add a Stream
With Twitter, there are several things you probably look at —
-your Direct Messages
Your Home Twitter Feed
and your @mentions
With Facebook, there are Wall Updates
Event Updates
And Private Messages
Hootsuite wants to know what Streams you care
about most.
Click the profile on the left, then choose your profile from the drop
down
Then click on the green + buttons to choose streams
SETTING UP TWITTER STREAMS
Hover over this tab and click on it
Write Twitter. This will be your Twitter Area.
Click Add Stream
A box will pop up with your profiles on the list.
Choose the Twitter button
Choose a list of Common Streams
The best are @mentions
Direct Inbox
Your Tweets
These Tabs are ways you can add particular streams that are specific
to you.
Click Lists
specify what Profile you want
Write your Category List
Click Keyword Tab
You can add any Keyword you wish and it will pull up a Twitter
feed for that word.
This works great with hashtags.
Then Click Add
Click Add Stream
Finally, click on the Search Tab
Put in the URL of your Blog if someone tweets out your post and
forgets to mention you, you can still follow how many people are
sending out links to your site
Then click Add Stream
SETTING UP FACEBOOK STREAM
If you linked your Facebook profile at the beginning of sign up, you
don’t have to add it again
Click Add Stream
Click Facebook
Add the Streams you are interested in
When you have added your favorite streams, this is how it
looks like
SENDING OUT STATUS UPDATES AND TWEETS
At the top of the dashboard, you’ll see a little box that says, Click to
select social network
Click it
Let’s tweet first. Choose your twitter handle.
In the box to the right, compose your tweet.
If you have a link, you can put it in the link box
and hit “shrink” which will make it compact.
Underneath the box, you’ll see a few buttons.
One is to add an image or file
another is to schedule
you can schedule your tweets for the whole day. Pick a date and time.
Then hit schedule.
If you selected to see your schedule stream, it’ll appear on
your screen.
ADDING APPS TO THE DASHBOARD
Apps let you extend your social reach with popular social networks
and services.
Most of them are free, and they don't count towards your
social profile limit
Open the App Directory from the Dashboard
This window will pop-up
Select the App from the Directory at the left side
For this tutorial let’s select Free Apps
Search or click the App you want to install
Click Install App
You may add the streams to a new tab
Or add streams to an existing tab
Click Finish
RUNNING A BASIC ANALYTICS REPORT
See what’s working and what needs work with Hootsuite’s Basic
Analytics Reports
Hover the mouse from the Dashboard and click Analytics
Under Customize click Build Custom Report
Select a Template
Or select Start from scratch
Upload a logo or an image of your choice
Type your Header
Type the Description
Then the title
Find a module and click it
Select the specific aspects of your social network
Click the green plus sign of what you selected
Next select your specific account
Click Done
Then you’ll be asked to receive emails for the report
Select No Email if you prefer not to
This is how your report looks like
Then click Create Report
You will then be redirected back to Hootsuite
Here, you may Share your report
Download as PDF
Export your report
Print your report
Or duplicate it
Or even Edit it
Or Delete it
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a
skill; the willingness to
learn is a choice.Brian Herbert