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NEW: HootSuite5 with HTML5, geo-search, themes, Google Analytics and native re-tweets

by Peter Horsten in Facebook,LinkedIn,Social networking,Twitter

HootSuite5 with HTML5

Today my HootSuite client was offline for a while, which was a big surprise. In general Hootsuite is a very reliable service. Fortunately, I was informed this was due to a remarkable update. Some time late I noticed significant changes to the social media dashboard beginning with a completely refreshed HTML5 user interface, plus geo-located search, native Twitter ReTweets, and integrated Google Analytics.

For me Hootsuite was already the best Social Media dashboard for both personal and team based social media management. Today’s improvements prove Hootsuite continuously keeps improving its service.

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New link and news sharing makes LinkedIn more social

by Peter Horsten April 21, 2010 Internet marketing
When you open your LinkedIn page to update your status, you will notice a new feature. From today LinkedIn enabled easy sharing of news and links. A nice new feature which enables you to share what’s hot in your domain. It’s easy to share the news with your network. LinkedIn is step by step becoming [...]
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5 reasons why social media are not suitable for every business

by Peter Horsten December 10, 2009 Best practices
The adoption of social media is increasing at high speed. You only have to watch the impressive increase of Twitter and Facebook accounts. They offer both new opportunities and challenges to stand above the crowd. If you listen to all the advice there is hardly any way to escape from it. On the other hand [...]
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LinkedIn Update Status finally integrates with Twitter

by Peter Horsten November 10, 2009 Social networking
It looks like LinkedIn is working hard to make up for the delay in their development over the past years. Soon a new redesign will be available and yesterday LinkedIn announced they will offer Twitter integration. For a long time LinkedIn has been already providing a Twitter and Facebook alike status update, but it turned [...]
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Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, Xing what social network should I use?

by Peter Horsten September 8, 2009 Facebook
If you don’t know what to do with your time register for every available social network. But for me keeping all my social network accounts up to date is taking too much time. It’s possible to use all kind of tools to link all different networks, but what’s use in it? Is that social? Couldn’t [...]
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The gloomy future of social networks from hype to collective intelligence

by Peter Horsten August 4, 2009 Social networking
The world started with a Big Bang and now it seems that the Universe is expanding endlessly. And that’s exactly what happens with the phenomenon of social networks. In every quantifiable way, in every statistics, we can notice a massive growth of interest in social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. However, what is the future of [...]
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How many contacts can you manage through a social network?

by Agnieszka Gibowska July 29, 2009 HRM
It is inevitable that Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of our social groups since it’s not time-consuming to cultivate these relationships. You are able to constantly monitor your friends’ lives through photos and regular “status updates”. But how big can our social network grow before we are no [...]
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