Hi Paul here from PRwilson Media your social media personal trainer.
So if you are looking into taking your social media to the next level wouldn't it be great
if you could schedule content, see everything from one dashboard all your different platforms
, Twitter, Facebook , LinkedIn.
Well Hootsuite can provide those answers.
I'm going to give you a quick tour now of the dashboard.
Here we go.
Here we are logged in to a hootsuite dashboard.
Now if you happen to be feeling a little bit like this character here , a little bit overwhelmed
let's just break it down into the main component parts.
The first one being the compose message field.
So here imagine you are on Twitter or Facebook and you are typing in , you post your status
update.
That's all this is , so if I do the classic hello world now I need it to go somewhere.
So I need to pick one of these or multiple ones of these if you like, social media platforms
that are linked to this.
So I've got the Twitter , LinkedIn and the Facebook page here.
So notice it has got different character space available , Twitter is 140, Facebook is 2000
LinkedIn is 600+.
But what I wouldn't suggest is that you just think right I'll just schedule it, I'll just
put it out there once and it will go straight to these platforms
Be aware that your audience may overlap on some of these platforms and it doesn't look
good on a Twitter link for example where you have got a big long Facebook post so that's
for another day but bear that in mind.
The second thing to look at here is you can do this attach pictures that you can do from
a normal post and here you can see a calendar and the scheduling options.
So instead of scheduling right now, you could schedule for the time and date you specify
in the future or you could even auto schedule and let hootsuite take care of it . And the
other option is instead of scheduling you can just save as a draft.
So that you can come back to it later.
All really useful options and all will be covered in more detail in other videos.
So that's the compose message box.
The next thing to look at are the streams if you like.
So what you've got here is 1,2,3 tabs at the moment.
You can add up to 10 tabs just by clicking the plus button.
And so just think of those tabs as different little dashboards you can have within it.
So this could be for a different client so this could be
client b.
So each one could have up to 10 windows going across.
So here I've got mainly the scheduled content , so stuff that's going out at this moment
on Twitter.
And nothing scheduled at the moment on Facebook.
And you can just add to it.
So you can say add stream And the choice of streams that you can add depends on what platform.
So things like home and mentions , my tweets, retweets on Twitter, whereas on Facebook you
can choose to monitor the timeline , events, posts.
So all subtly different.
So when you've created a stream it would appear here.
And you can remove, drag and drop, click for more options , you can delete a particular
stream you are not interested in.
So I could get rid of that for now.
You can have things spread out or more compact.
Really it is all about your dashboard - what are you going to keep an eye on.
We'll go into other areas you can monitor , so it's not just content but it's also you
can have particular searches running that you can always find results.
And we'll also go into these other menu options in other videos.
But that's the main thing to note, that hootsuite gives you that ability to in 1 place as a
team to manage content , look at what's coming in, what's scheduled and respond better to
anything that arises.
If there's anything that you need to know about.
So that's it from me for now, look out for more videos on Hootsuite in 2017 , in future
editions.
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Bye!