Social Media Savvy

I posted a blog last year about how third party Twitter clients like Tweetdeck can really speed up your work. However, I was kind of surprised when I was at the Ragan Corporate Communicators conference last week when I saw that many people still were not using any third party clients to help them tweet.

For businesses and people who can't constantly tweet throughout the day, things like Tweetdeck and HootSuite are valuable tools.


HootSuite is another free tool, it allows you to schedule all the tweets that you want to run and it also provides a URL shortener right there as you are typing the tweet. It allows you to see metrics on your most clicked URLs and to me, the most important feature is the feature that allows more than one person to work with the channel. I work at a large company and we have more than one person operating our Twitter handles and this allows us to be able to see all of the tweets that each of us has scheduled and to divvy up work. I highly recommend giving HootSuite a try!