HootSuite Releases HootSuite5 Social Media Dashboard with Themes, Geo-search and Google Analytics

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Jun 24, 2010, 08:01 ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Today HootSuite releases a significant update to the popular social media dashboard, including a complete interface refresh and features utilizing new HTML5 technology standards. Notable changes include multiple design themes, improvements to Facebook media publishing, and language localization.

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With the recent announcement of Google's HTML5 site and many other brands including Apple on-board, HootSuite has made a substantial investment in this new technology standard. Using HTML5 allows HootSuite to release unique features for a rapidly growing customer base.

The release continues HootSuite's mission to make social media outreach easy and efficient for a worldwide customer base which includes governments, publishers, enterprises, start-ups and power users.

HootSuite5 with HTML5

Using HTML5, HootSuite engineers added geo-specific search option, allowing users to retrieve messages posted near their physical location. This tool will be a boon for Twitter users eager to shop locally, community groups seeking volunteers, and companies reaching out to new clients in their business area, plus myriad other scenarios. Further, HTML5 enabled significant performance improvements resulting in quicker load times for columns and tabs for an even more responsive user experience.

Analytics in Dashboard

HootSuite has tightly integrated Google Analytics, adding in-dashboard views to track conversions, goals and traffic patterns. This new feature, coupled with HootSuite's existing custom URL parameter tool, lets marketers achieve deep research without switching sites.

More Tools

Other new tools to help broadcast messages, monitor conversations, and track results include:

Interface Re-design and Themes - A new interface lets users access more information at once. Users may now select design themes, including a refreshed version of the classic blue and green design, plus two new choices: Blue Steel and Magnum

Facebook Media Preview - Add a photo thumbnail, title and description when posting links to Facebook profiles or pages -- a highly requested feature from the Feedback channel

'Twitter Native' ReTweets - Choose between traditional manual RT-style to quote an update, or the newer "Twitter native" style of automatically rebroadcasting the message

File Drag and Drop - Attach an image or other file easily using Chrome 5, Firefox 3.6 and Safari 5 browsers Just drag from the desktop and drop into the message box to upload with a pre-shortened link

Language Localization - Already available for the iPhone version, language localization lets users view HootSuite in their preferred language, starting with Japanese; more linguistic choices to come

Keyboard Shortcuts - Clicking Shift+Enter on the keyboard now sends the update, saving mouse-clicks and time another user-requested feature

Handier Help - The refreshed interface improves access to the trove of tutorials and answers at the Help Desk, as well as the Feedback channel for feature requests

Resources

Release blog post -- more info about the release and features: http://blog.hootsuite.com/hootsuite-html-5/

Media Kit company descriptions, logos, executive bios and media contact info: http://blog.hootsuite.com/media

Social bookmarks media and blog articles referencing HootSuite: http://delicious.com/hootsuite

HTML5 Info

Google: http://www.html5rocks.com/

Apple: http://www.apple.com/html5/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

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