Michael Shepherd
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Michael Shepherd shared this idea and gave it 1 vote ·
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AdminChris from HootSuite
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Users are now able to “share” posts that were sent from HootSuite.
Michael Shepherd gave this 2 votes ·
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AdminChris from HootSuite
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We’ll explore further options with Ow.ly’s API for third party developers who want to build with it.
Michael Shepherd gave this 2 votes ·
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Apparently I really wanted this because I created another voting post.
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Stats for all user profile channels (not just twitter)
ideally it would even be nice to be able to see the click through on two items
1. The total click-through of a message through all channels
2. The individual click-through of each message per user channel (Not Just Twitter)
An easy way to do this is to create a shortened link and then once the i... more
ideally it would even be nice to be able to see the click through on two items
1. The total click-through of a message through all channels
2. The individual click-through of each message per user channel (Not Just Twitter)
An easy way to do this is to create a shortened link and then once the individual profiles are selected embed that new shortened link into other shortened links per channel. Then use the original shortened link for the "Total Message Count" and use the spin off shortened links for a per channel breakdown.
The stats really need to be improved on this platform. There is a lot of potential with the way you have things laid out but frankly your stats currently do not cut it.
I hope this is helpful.
Thanks for your continued effort, love the overall product. It keeps getting better.
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Vote Vote Vote! :->
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AdminChris from HootSuite
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Starting today, users have the option of choosing between framed and non-framed URLs. Ow.ly will have no frames, while Ht.ly will continue to display the social bar.
Michael Shepherd commented ·
mr dupre, is that you? if so hello to you. :->
Michael Shepherd gave this 1 vote ·
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50 votesunder review ·
AdminChris from HootSuite
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No doubt, this is an interesting idea, and something we may offer someday to premium accounts.
Michael Shepherd commented ·
oh wow how exciting, that must mean the contributors will be grandfathered in 'he he' :-)
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Also another idea is too keep everything the same way but instead of letting us determine when the RSS feed will stream by incremental time, let us choose the time of day it will stream. For example if I want my health rss feed to stream right at 12pm, let me choose that time. This will still prevent the problem of many users having the same post stream at the same time but it gives us a lot more control. For example I have my health stream posting at hours like 10pm and midnight. Sure I can tell it to stream post 12 hours but what if the article writer actually writes a post on time. Why should I have to keep guessing the blog writers writing schedule? Why not just let me choose what times they post as well. For those blogs that post multiple times throughout the day, you can keep the option that you currently have..
ie.
Schedule RSS Feed by Time? <field>
Schedule RSS feed by Increment? <field>Michael Shepherd commented ·
I just had another killer idea.
Ok, how about you create a feed portal that brings in all the RSS posts into a holding chamber. Then in the holding chamber you allow us to manually approve all of the posts that we like (we can set too auto approve all posts might be a great option). Then we can simply set an interval at which each (man you owe me for my brilliance on this one) posts will stream out for each user according to how we set up each user.
So picture this. I have 10 RSS feeds that bring in 1 post a day and collectively give me 10 solid articles that I can stream through my accounts. But lets say that usually 2 of the 10 completely don't fit and make it look real obvious that I am streaming an RSS feed. For example if one of the posts is talking reads something like "Take a look at winter ski pictures from last year". This would clearly look very strange because the link would take them to someone else's blog and that just wouldn't make any sense.
So 10 RSS Feeds (an example) stream into my holding chamber where I can disapprove or approve the non related post. Now allow us to use the scheduler as I illustrated in the comments above on a per user basis. In other words, don't have the individual RSS feeds get scheduling rights, have the scheduling rights take place per user and have the user feed pull from the chamber of approved feeds.
Level 1 - Feeds Come IN
Level 2 - Feeds get approved or disapproved in chamber
Level 2 - Feeds are matched with user accounts
Level 3 - User gets to schedule days and time intervals to release feeds pending in chamberThis is a total win all across the board. No longer will you have 500 accounts streaming the same content at the same time and annoying every twitter follower who follows other twitter followers with streaming RSS feeds.
You can even add the option to release batch releases at a time per interval
For example
Interval Rate - hourly
Batch Rate: 3 posts at each interval releaseMichael Shepherd commented ·
Forgive my spelling above. :-) I am stuck in hurry mode. :-)
Michael Shepherd commented ·
This is the same idea I had. I stream my tweets to facebook and many other social networks and the problem I have is some of the social networks will "Merge" a bunch of walls/tweets/messages into one line summaries 'hiding all of the other posts - Facebook'.
So if we have an RSS Feed stream without knowing at what times, then when we actually do tweet a message that WE DO want our followers to read than there is a strong guarantee that they will not see our message but will see our RSS message. And for most of us we use the RSS tweets as 'fillers' but that doesn't server our primary intent for the account.
Having the ability to schedule the RSS tweets would allow us to set certain time periods where we could 'reserve' for our personal tweets.
It would be really helpful to be able to schedule multiple time periods if you think that feature wouldn't be too overboard. For example.
RSS Feed
Schedule 1 Days - M - F
Schedule 1 Hours - 7pm to 9am
Schedule 1 Intervals - Every Two Hours
(Also it would be nice if we had 1-24 instead of your preselects)Schedule 2 Days - Sat, Sun
Schedule 2 Hours - All Hours
Schedule 2 Interval - Every HourSchedule 3 Days - you get the idea
TimeMichael Shepherd gave this 2 votes ·
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40 votescompleted ·
AdminChris from HootSuite
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This has been implemented as draft messages:
http://help.hootsuite.com/entries/113218-how-to-save-a-message-as-a-draft
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Draft messages do not have routine scheduling features. Draft messages do not re-create the ow.ly links. Draft messages cluttered with saved template messages adds confusion to those of us who want to create more than a handful of marketing or branding messages.
Perhaps next to the 'Save As Draft' button you can create a "Save As Template" button and then a 'schedule template' feature.
Not sure if it goes against the TOS of twitter but I know I can manually do it and I do and I'm sure others do as well. So in the end, people are going to do it. Perhaps there is a way to limit abuse of the scheduling platform. For example 'every 10 minutes clearly would be spamming your followers, of course they can always un-follow. So in that regard I suppose one could argue that is not spam. :-)
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Also add the option to schedule the template messages routinely (similiar to Outlook scheduled appointments).
I would love to be able to set a message to stream once a week reminding everyone how they can reach me on Facebook, or Myspace, or Twitter, or my Blog. I would love to be able to remind people once a week about my free mini-course.
The only note I would make is I would have the URL recreated each time with a new ow.ly link or it will create inaccurate stats. Either that or allow us to remove certain messages from our stats by adding a 'remove this message from stats option'. :-)
I'm a genius I know. (and equally humble :-)
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Michael Shepherd shared this idea and gave it 2 votes ·
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243 votesunder review ·
AdminChris from HootSuite
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Good idea that would offer better customizability. However, we are exploring other interface refinements too.
Michael Shepherd commented ·
This should be a quick and easy thing to do. Perhaps you can make this change for us until you decide to go with a different interface? Something to think about. I would think this change could be made in 5-10 minutes
Michael Shepherd commented ·
at the very least sort facebook fanpage icons separate from facebook profile icons. But i would rather have full control using drag and drop technology. :->
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Michael Shepherd commented ·
Also allow us to create icon groups that we can check so that we do not have to manually check all of the icons that relate to one topic. (Let us create icon groups) :-)
Michael Shepherd commented ·
hey everyone vote for this!!
Michael Shepherd shared this idea and gave it 2 votes ·
Oh MY!
You forgot to add a 'share' link to each thumbnail posts. That is a huge benefit to posting with thumbnail posts as opposed to status posts.
Two main traffic benefits are the ability to have the popular posts shared on Facebook and to have that shared link reference the Facebook Page that it came from. Please add the share link to the thumbnail posts that would be so great.
http://screencast.com/t/MDc4NzhiM