This is a tutorial on how to set up your Hootsuite Dashboard.

1. A GUIDE TO SETTING UP
YOUR HOOTSUITE
DASHBOARD
BY: NEZEL P. YURONG

2. BENEFITS OF HOOTSUITE

3. -You can see all your profiles in one
place.
-You can schedule updates and
links way into the future without
having to jump on and off social
media all day long.

4. -With a platform like Twitter (that
moves so fast) you can customize
your streams so you don’t miss the
things you want to see.
-You can shorten links to save on
characters!

5. -If you add a Hootsuite extension,
you can follow all your favorite
blogs!
-Anytime you click on the RSS
button, a hootsuite box will open up
and ask if you want to add that blog
to a tab.

6. -Click save and you’ll be able to
access them all in one place!

7. GETTING STARTED

8. Go to Hootsuite.com

9. Click Get Started--Free

10. Enter your Email

11. Add your Social Networks

12. Click Twitter

13. Enter your Twitter Log in

14. Click Authorize App

15. Click Facebook

16. Enter your Facebook Log in

17. Click Okay

18. Click Okay

19. This is now your Dashboard

20. To add more of your Social
Media, click Add Social
Network

21. Select what you want to add

22. To add Google Page, click
Google

23. Click Allow

24. Click Finished Importing

25. Do the same with your other
Social Media Networks

26. This is what your Dashboard
would look like

27. ADDING STREAMS

28. Once your profiles are
linked, it’s time to add
Streams

29. Think of Streams like
different trails of
conversation

30. To add, click Add a Stream

31. With Twitter, there are several
things you probably look at —

32. -your Direct Messages

33. Your Home Twitter Feed

34. and your @mentions

35. With Facebook, there are Wall
Updates

36. Event Updates

37. And Private Messages

38. Hootsuite wants to know
what Streams you care
about most.

39. Click the profile on the left, then
choose your profile from the drop
down

40. Then click on the green +
buttons to choose streams

41. SETTING UP TWITTER
STREAMS

42. Hover over this tab and click on
it

43. Write Twitter. This will be your
Twitter Area.

44. Click Add Stream

45. A box will pop up with your
profiles on the list.

46. Choose the Twitter button

47. Choose a list of Common
Streams

48. The best are @mentions

49. Direct Inbox

50. Your Tweets

51. These Tabs are ways you can
add particular streams that are
specific to you.

52. Click Lists

53. specify what Profile you want

54. Write your Category List

55. Click Keyword Tab

56. You can add any Keyword you
wish and it will pull up a
Twitter feed for that word.

57. This works great with
hashtags.

58. Then Click Add

59. Click Add Stream

60. Finally, click on the Search Tab

61. Put in the URL of your Blog if
someone tweets out your post
and forgets to mention you, you
can still follow how many
people are sending out links to
your site

63. Then click Add Stream

64. SETTING UP FACEBOOK
STREAM

65. If you linked your Facebook
profile at the beginning of sign
up, you don’t have to add it
again

66. Click Add Stream

67. Click Facebook

68. Add the Streams you are
interested in

69. When you have added your
favorite streams, this is how it
looks like

70. SENDING OUT STATUS
UPDATES AND TWEETS

71. At the top of the dashboard,
you’ll see a little box that says,
Click to select social network

72. Click it

73. Let’s tweet first. Choose your
twitter handle.

74. In the box to the right,
compose your tweet.

75. If you have a link, you can put it
in the link box

76. and hit “shrink” which will
make it compact.

77. Underneath the box, you’ll see
a few buttons.

78. One is to add an image or file

79. another is to schedule

80. you can schedule your tweets for
the whole day. Pick a date and
time.

81. Then hit schedule.

82. If you selected to see your
schedule stream, it’ll appear on
your screen.

83. ADDING APPS TO THE
DASHBOARD

84. Apps let you extend your social
reach with popular social
networks and services.

85. Most of them are free, and
they don't count towards
your social profile limit

86. Open the App Directory from
the Dashboard

87. This window will pop-up

88. Select the App from the
Directory at the left side

89. For this tutorial let’s select
Free Apps

90. Search or click the App you
want to install

91. Click Install App

92. You may add the streams to a
new tab

93. Or add streams to an existing
tab

94. Click Finish

95. RUNNING A BASIC
ANALYTICS REPORT

96. See what’s working and what
needs work with Hootsuite’s
Basic Analytics Reports

97. Hover the mouse from the
Dashboard and click Analytics

98. Under Customize click Build
Custom Report

99. Select a Template

100. Or select Start from scratch

101. Upload a logo or an image of
your choice

102. Type your Header

103. Type the Description

104. Then the title

105. Find a module and click it

106. Select the specific aspects of
your social network

107. Click the green plus sign of what
you selected

108. Next select your specific
account

109. Click Done

110. Then you’ll be asked to receive
emails for the report

111. Select No Email if you prefer
not to

112. This is how your report looks
like

113. Then click Create Report

114. You will then be redirected
back to Hootsuite

115. Here, you may Share your
report

116. Download as PDF

117. Export your report

118. Print your report

119. Or duplicate it

120. Or even Edit it

121. Or Delete it

122. The capacity to
learn is a gift; the
ability to learn is a
skill; the willingness
to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert