Lynn Serafinn
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80 votesunder review ·
AdminChris from HootSuite
(Ambassador of Happiness, HootSuite)
responded
We agree that batch scheduling would be great with more features.
Right now, the current way to upload batch scheduled messages is through properly formatting a CSV document. We’re looking into further ways to make this process more user-friendly so we can add additional powerful features.
Lynn Serafinn gave this 3 votes ·
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55 votesunder review ·
AdminChris from HootSuite
(Ambassador of Happiness, HootSuite)
responded
We continue to review ways to make batch scheduling more user friendly.
Lynn Serafinn commented ·
I'm really disappointed that the CSV means there are no previews generated for Facebook, etc., We bloggers go a lot of effort choosing the right images for our articles, and the lack of imagery is not only boring to readers, but it CUTS DOWN ON CLICKS, and hence, sales. So this is NOT a small issue, and it would be great if you made this a priority. Can you not create something that converts CSV data to something that works the way it's supposed to?
It would be great if we could upload it to multiple accounts at once, the same way we can send an update to multiple accounts. You already have the ability to do that with the posts, so how hard would it be to apply that to the uploads? Of course, scheduling it to Ping instead of individual accounts can be a solution in some cases.
Yes, a simple solution to the date/time scheduling would be to put the date and time in two different column instead of one, it would make it dirt simple to create a list of dates/times from a sequence.
100 uploads per sheet would be great, and I like the suggestion someone had about a certain percentage allowed to be duplicate (not sure how you could monitor that, though!).
I'm currently writing a review of HootSuite for an eBook, and it's 99% positive. This is the only fly in the ointment I see so far. I've been using Twaitter over the past year, and it's proving to be more cumbersome than I originally thought. Honestly, if you could just iron out these few blips, HootSuite would be flawless.
BTW... I like how in publisher you can drag and drop things around. This is something Twaitter had promised, but never delivered. It means I can go in after I've uploaded the CSV and stagger some of the tweets across different accounts. It's super cool. Please do NOT change that!!!!
Lynn Serafinn gave this 3 votes ·
1) Yes, a simple solution would be if you could put the date and time in two different column instead of one, it would make it dirt simple to create a list of dates/times from a sequence.
2) 100 uploads per sheet would be great
3) But most of all, as per the comments at http://feedback.hootsuite.com/forums/40182-hootsuite-com-web-dashboard/suggestions/1800397-make-the-bulk-upload-system-better-using-csv-mean#comments, I'm really disappointed that the CSV means there are no previews generated for Facebook, etc., We bloggers go a lot of effort choosing the right images for our articles, and the lack of imagery is not only boring to readers, but it CUTS DOWN ON CLICKS, and hence, sales. So this is NOT a small issue, and it would be great if you made this a priority. Can you not create something that converts CSV data to something that works the way it's supposed to?
4) Yes, it would be great if we could upload it to multiple accounts at once, the same way we can send an update to multiple accounts. You already have the ability to do that with the posts, so how hard would it be to apply that to the uploads? Of course, scheduling it to Ping instead of individual accounts can be a solution in some cases.
I'm writing a review of HootSuite and it's 99% positive. This is the only fly in the ointment I see so far. I've been using Twaitter over the past year, and it's proving to be more cumbersome than I originally thought. Honestly, if you could just iron out these few blips, HootSuite would be flawless.