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Introduction to Hootsuite

• Our fresh new look
• Overview of Hootsuite
• Get started with Hootsuite
• Overview of Hootsuite plan types

Manage your social accounts

Add your social accounts

• Add a social account to Hootsuite
• Add a Facebook account
• Add a Twitter account
• Add an Instagram account
• Connect an Instagram account to a Facebook Page
• Overview of Instagram profiles
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Manage social account connections

• Reconnect a social account
• Remove a social account
• Enable full Instagram functionality
• Revoke Hootsuite access to a social account
• Sync an account's profile picture or name
• Troubleshoot issues with your social networks
• See all 9 articles

Create and manage content

Create and publish social content

• Create and publish posts
• Create a Facebook post
• Create a tweet
• Create an Instagram post
• Create an Instagram story
• Enable Instagram publishing notifications
• See all 16 articles

Work with images, videos, and links

• Work with images
• Work with videos
• Work with links
• Add, share, or delete a vanity URL
• Apply link settings
• Troubleshoot vanity URL issues
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Schedule and manage posts

• Schedule a post
• Automatically schedule a post
• Schedule multiple posts at a time
• Manage your scheduled posts
• Export your scheduled posts
• Manage your content library
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Promote your content

• Boost a Facebook Page post
• Promote a LinkedIn Page post
• LinkedIn video specifications for ads
• Manage ad accounts in Hootsuite

Engage in conversations using Inbox

Work with Inbox

• Overview of Hootsuite Inbox
• Engage with and assign conversations in Inbox
• Use saved replies in Inbox
• Enable Messenger bots in Inbox
• Why can't I reply to a Facebook message in Inbox?

Monitor feeds and engage with others in Streams

Add streams to monitor feeds

• Overview of Streams
• Add a Facebook stream
• Add a Twitter stream
• Add an Instagram stream
• Add a LinkedIn stream
• Add a YouTube stream

Organize streams

• Use boards to organize your streams
• Delete a stream
• Edit or delete published content in Streams
• Hide or show images in Streams
• Filter Twitter or Facebook streams

Engage with your audience in Streams

• Like, comment, and reply in Facebook streams
• Like, reply, retweet, and message in Twitter streams
• Comment and reply in Instagram streams
• Like and comment in LinkedIn streams
• Like, comment, and reply in YouTube streams
• Share stream content
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Work with Twitter streams

• Edit your Twitter search stream
• Add or remove someone from your Twitter list
• Follow or unfollow a Twitter account
• Mute, block, or report someone on Twitter
• Search in Twitter streams
• Share your Twitter search stream

Work with YouTube streams

• Edit and sort your YouTube search stream
• Add or remove a video from a YouTube playlist
• Moderate YouTube comments
• Subscribe to a YouTube channel

Collaborate with teams and organizations

Create and manage teams and organizations

• Overview of teams and organizations
• Work with a Hootsuite organization (Business and Enterprise plans)
• Work with a Hootsuite organization (Team plan)
• Create or delete a team
• Add a member to an organization or team
• Share a social account with an organization or team
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Assign posts or comments to team members

• Assign posts or comments from Streams
• View and respond in Assignments
• Manage tasks in Assignments
• Automate assignments and tags
• Differences between Inbox and Assignments

Manage content with tags and campaigns

• Add tags to track your outbound posts
• Add tags to track inbound posts
• Manage tags
• Create and manage content campaigns

Review your results with Analytics and Impact

Measure your performance with Analytics

• Get started with Analytics
• Overview of Analytics
• View an Analytics report
• Visualizations in Analytics reports
• Configure a tile in an Analytics report
• Create a new report in Analytics
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Track results using Impact in Analytics

• View post performance in Impact
• View LinkedIn engagement in Impact

Prove your social ROI with Impact

• Introduction to Hootsuite Impact
• Get started with Hootsuite Impact
• Connect an organic or paid social account to Impact
• Connect a website analytics account to Impact
• Connect Hootsuite and Ads to Impact
• Reconnect social accounts to Impact
• See all 16 articles

Manage your account and payments

Account and payments

• Manage your Hootsuite plan and account
• Account FAQ
• Manage your Enterprise plan
• Transfer Hootsuite account ownership
• Manage an overdue or suspended account
• Billing FAQ
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Manage your settings

Hootsuite settings

• Overview of Hootsuite settings
• Supported browsers
• Change your display language
• Change your time zone
• Manage email notifications
• Manage notifications (Business and Enterprise)
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Login and security

• Sign in or out of Hootsuite
• Set up multi-factor authentication
• Single sign-on with Hootsuite
• Edit your profile
• Security and Hootsuite
• About login verification
• See all 7 articles

Manage apps and integrations

Extend functionality with apps

• Install or uninstall apps
• Paid (premium) app billing
• App directory FAQ
• Share content with Hootlet
• Set up a HootFeed
• Share social posts to Slack
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Hootsuite for mobile

Hootsuite for iOS 11+

• Hootsuite for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
• Set permissions for Hootsuite - iOS
• Sign in or out of the mobile app - iOS
• Manage your social accounts - iOS
• Add and manage streams - iOS
• Engage with and moderate stream content - iOS
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Hootsuite for Android 5.0+

• Hootsuite for Android
• Set permissions for Hootsuite - Android
• Sign in or out of the mobile app - Android
• Manage your social accounts - Android
• Add and manage streams - Android
• Engage with and moderate stream content - Android
• See all 27 articles

Discover trends with Insights

Insights, powered by Brandwatch

• Overview of Insights
• Create and save a search in Insights
• Saved search limits in Insights
• View, edit, and delete your saved searches in Insights
• Filter and analyze your saved searches
• Create email alerts for your saved searches
• See all 10 articles

Extend your reach with Amplify

Admins: Create, curate, and pre-approve social content

• Extend social reach through Amplify employee advocacy
• Add Amplify to your Hootsuite dashboard
• Use topics to categorize Amplify content
• Create Amplify content for advocates to share
• Publish Amplify content from Drafts or the content library
• Manage Amplify users and roles
• See all 10 articles

Employee advocates: Share your company’s social content

• Share your company’s social content with Amplify
• Join Amplify and connect your social networks
• Explore and share company content with Amplify
• Modify your Amplify profile, topic subscriptions, and notifications
• Troubleshoot Amplify advocate issues
• Social selling with Amplify

Create and manage campaigns with Ads

Manage your social accounts in Ads

• Connect your Google Ads account to Ads
• Connect your Facebook account to Ads
• Import your Facebook campaigns into Ads
• Add or remove ad accounts in Ads
• Enable advertising on Instagram (Ads)
• Add or remove subusers from your Ads account
• See all 8 articles

Create an ad campaign

• Overview of Hootsuite Ads
• Promote a post in Ads
• Automatically promote your Facebook Page in Ads
• Create Facebook ad campaigns in bulk
• Build campaigns with Facebook ad templates
• Create a Facebook Messenger ad campaign
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Manage your ad campaigns

• Overview of ad campaigns
• Set preferences for your Facebook ad campaign
• Schedule your campaign with dayparting
• Save an ad campaign as a draft
• Copy or delete an ad campaign
• Add a new adset to a running campaign
• See all 17 articles

Create and manage your ads

• Create a carousel ad in Ads
• Display ads in Messenger
• Display ads in Instagram
• Use existing content to create new ads
• Work with images in Ads
• Tag someone when a post contains branded content
• See all 7 articles

Set target audiences

• Target a Facebook audience
• Create and use a saved audience
• Split test saved audiences
• Create and use a custom audience
• Target a continent or macro area
• Target mobile users
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Analyze and track ad campaign results

• Track goal conversions with Facebook pixels
• Custom pixel events and conversions
• Pixel attribution and revenue tracking
• Add generic tracking parameters to an ad URL
• Track ad campaigns with Google Analytics
• View Google Shopping campaign metrics
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Improve your skills with Hootsuite Academy

Hootsuite Academy resources

• Hootsuite Academy FAQ
• Create a Hootsuite Academy account
• Add your Academy certification to LinkedIn
• Change the name on your Academy certification
• Hootsuite Academy student FAQ
• Resources for Educators
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Important notices

Hootsuite notices

• Changes to Facebook Page functionality - September 11, 2020
• Action required for some Twitter accounts - August 26, 2020
• Updates to Instagram sharing on Amplify - February 24, 2020
• Important notice about apps in the Chrome browser - February 14, 2020
• Important changes for Instagram users - January 28, 2020
• Instagram analytics updates - January 7, 2020
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Work with legacy tools

Legacy tools

• Transition publishing workflows from the legacy composer to the new Composer
• Publish posts with the legacy composer
• Select social accounts in the legacy composer
• Add, modify, or remove custom URL parameters (legacy composer)
• Tag Facebook branded content (legacy composer)
• Enable auto initial (legacy composer)
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Legacy Insights settings

• Manage stream folders
• Change your Insights email, name, or password
• Insights email notifications
• Manage Insights tags
• Connect or disconnect social networks in Insights
• Manage Insights users
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Legacy Insights streams

• Insights Streams FAQ
• An introduction to Insights streams
• Add Google Alerts as a custom source
• Add an Insights stream
• Edit and optimize an Insights search stream
• Search within your Insights streams
• See all 8 articles

Legacy Insights boards and reports

• Add images to an Insights report
• Insights Boards and Reports FAQ
• Widgets overview
• Email Insights reports
• Edit Insights board - report widgets
• Set a board as your home board
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Legacy Insights signals and activity

• View scheduled or posted content
• Assign and manage tasks in Insights
• Add tags and view Insights content by tag
• Signals FAQ
• Export data from Hootsuite Insights
• An introduction to Signals
• See all 7 articles