Setting Up Your Dashboard

Hello Everyone,

Since last week we finished our text book on social media, I will be now writing about Hootsuite University. If you want to know what Hootsuite is from one of my previous posts, click here. This post will be addressing section 100 of Hootsuite University, Setting Up Your Dashboard.

The first part of setting up your dashboard is by adding your social media accounts into Hootsuite. In order to do this you go to stream, then add, then log into your account. Once logged in you'll never need to add that account again. Also you can add multiple accounts from the same network, for example, for Facebook you can add personal accounts and pages.

Next you add tabs. This is the easiest way to organize, its like a filing cabinet. You can organize it anyway that makes sense to you, by clients, competitors, whatever floats your boat. You hit the + sign to add a tab and enter a name. Then drag and drop that tab into any order that you prefer. In order to change the name you simply double click the tab.

Next you add streams. Use streams to organize how you monitor incoming content. These show as columns under each tab. You can have up to 10 different streams. You can have multiple accounts and streams all under one tab.

Last is navigating your user profile. Your member overview page is your central hub. It has your profile, your organization and all your accounts. You can click on your profile to edit your account info, like for example if one of your passwords for your social media changes. You can explore details of your teams, members and social networks.

Until next time,
Caitlin Campbell