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HootSuite Adds Support for MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader to Social Media Management System
App Release Further Enhances HootSuite’s SaaS Model by Growing the Ecosystem of Partner Integrations
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – April 24, 2012) - HootSuite has extended the functionality of their market-leading social media management system with a new wave of partner integrations. Joining their growing App Directory are MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader. These apps are available immediately to HootSuite’s Free, Pro, and Enterprise clients which now make up close to 4 million users worldwide.
MailChimp - The MailChimp app for HootSuite allows users to view and search for recent campaigns, share campaigns to social networks, view campaign results and more.
Chime.in - The Chime.in app for HootSuite allows users to schedule and send chimes, leave and view comments, preview photos, video and more.
Identi.ca - The Identi.ca app for HootSuite allows you to post status updates, monitor timelines and messages, track your replies, view conversations and more.
Vision Critical Surveys - The Vision Critical Surveys app for HootSuite allows you to easily share surveys with your social networks, monitor results in real-time and more.
RSS Reader - The RSS Reader app for HootSuite provides a quick and easy way to view RSS feeds in the HootSuite dashboard, and share stories and articles from these feeds to your social networks.
“Businesses today are social. Success depends on connecting with customers instantly across multiple social media channels and networks. The growth of our App Directory gives clients an impressive arsenal of tools to do this, all in a single place,” says HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes. “Our goal, as we close in on six million users by end of year, is to continue aggressively integrating leading apps, turning our dashboard into the mother of all SaaS resources for the social business.”
“While we offer social capabilities and tracking inside our own application we know that the most important thing for small businesses is convenience. So many small businesses use HootSuite to manage and measure their brand’s presence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more. We’re excited that this integration will also allow them to manage the sharing of their email campaigns across those networks as well,” says MailChimp Head of Integrations and Partnerships, Amy Ellis.
HootSuite launched the App Directory in late 2011, enabling third-party developers to build extensions into the dashboard platform. Applications to date include Constant Contact, Chime.in, Digg, Flickr, Get Satisfaction, Identi.ca, InboxQ, MailChimp, Orkut, RSS Reader, TrendSpottr, Tumblr, Vision Critical Surveys, and YouTube. These complement HootSuite’s native social networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ Pages and others.
In February 2012, HootSuite went a step further, opening up the Engagement API to expose core social network management, message publishing and scheduling functionality to third party platforms and applications.
The App Directory SDK has likewise been extended with better intercommunication between native HootSuite streams and App Directory streams. Users can now send specific tweets and posts from their HootSuite streams to app streams. This tighter coupling between HootSuite and integrated apps extends the power of both. Stay tuned: Apps are in the works that use this functionality for customer support, CRM, digital marketing, and analytics use cases.
About HootSuite Media, Inc.
HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to execute collaborative campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Small, medium and large enterprise customers launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audience, and distribute targeted messages using HootSuite’s unique social media dashboard. Across the globe, customers rely on HootSuite’s flexible platform to invite multiple collaborators to manage social profiles securely and create custom reports using the comprehensive social analytics tools. Key social network integrations include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ Pages, among others, plus a suite of social content apps for MailChimp, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and more. For more information please visit www.hootsuite.com.
More Information:
Blog Post: http://blog.hootsuite.com/fourth-app-directoryLanding Page: https://hootsuite.com/appdirectoryDevelopers Page: https://hootsuite.com/developers
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HootSuite Adds Support for MailChimp to Social Media Management System. The MailChimp app for HootSuite allows users to view and search for recent campaigns, share campaigns to social networks, view campaign results and more.
HootSuite Adds Support for MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader, further enhancing their SaaS model and growing the ecosystem of partner integrations