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Social media dashboards - do you use one? Recommendations please!
Do you use a social media dashboard to manage all your activities? I would like something that displays my Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress etc activities on one page so I can get updates at a glance. Hootsuite looks the sort of thing, but has anyone used it?
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Isn't that the owl version of Facebook?
These linkies might help.
I don't use any so I can't offer my input on this one.
http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=pamdyer/1458746/50-top-tools-social-media-monitoring-analytics-and-management-2013
http://www.socialbrite.org/2010/11/09/top-10-social-media-dashboard-tools/
I do, because it has a neat way of shortening your links. You know how some of them can be sooooooooo long & twitter only gives you 140 chars. Also, with Hootsuite, you can schedule your tweets. Sometimes I do it for the whole week - done & dusted. A Hootsuite shortened link is the ow.ly one. The only downside of Hootsuite is you sometimes get Malware and the ow.ly links are not defended against it, so people might be suspicious of clicking on them.
Tweetdeck is okay. I used to luuuuurve Tweetdeck but it don't work proper. It is supposed to shorten links for twitter but it doesn't always do it, or it does it after the event, so you can't make the best use of your 140 chars. Twitter shortened links are t.co.
I don't think there is one that incorporates all of the platforms you mention, Lou.
A good way to do it is to connect your blog to twitter (I think you use Blogger - that's not hard to do) and from there you can get your tweet to go to facebook, so, one tweet and it's all done.
I'm pretty sure Hootsuite does that now, but I haven't sussed it yet.
Never ever click on DMs or @ tweets that say "Someone is saying nasty things about you." Block them. It's malware.
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