@plabelle Greetings Pamela, 
I am working with hootsuite, it is fast, reliable, integrates your social media stream seamlessly and it does nothing you do not want to, i.e. posting on your behalf without you knowing it and stuff like that. 
The URL shrink option is nice – if you want that, you can 1click your posts to multiple streams and systems, you can schedule your posts (again, if you want that), you can manage twitter lists and there’s a browser plugins for firefox, chrome (and rockmelt of course), making it easy to post out of different situations. You can customize the dashboard to your liking. 
There is also an extensive report section, but I never got the time to dig in there…if you, however, plan to work with hootsuite in your business and plan to integrate more people, you will have to go for one of their payment plans, but all of the stuff mentioned above is free.Concerning your FB question: Since hootsuite acts on your behalf, everything manual or automated you or hootsuite (or any dashboard) does should be shareable by any of your fans. 
Cheers, Thomas

I use Hootsuite as well, I like it better than TweetDeck, to use Tweetdeck and get all my messages, I have to be signed into that Twitter account to see the activity. With Hootsuite I don’t have to be

another plus 1 for hootsuite.  That said I have in the past used excel as well as depending on what you are measuring (social plus paid?) sometimes hootsuite is not the best solution – particularly if you have stakeholders that are not on hootsuite.  

Do you Hootsuite- I do… Used it- limited for the free version.. like most things about it. 

Hootsuite is pretty good (and I still have my pro account for some reason) but I prefer SproutSocial.  There is a lot more functionality and its relatively cheap plus there analytics are nice.  It’s a big score for me. 

Edit: Oh… yes you can auto post to Facebook and the nice thing about SproutSocial is it looks like it should.  I’ve never been able to post an image, link and comment and have it appear right.  As someone that spends a good portion of the day using social networks, I have to have something that is more functional and looks nice.

@jasonwiser Jason, good points about both Hootsuite and SocialBro. I agree about the 100 follower limit on SocialBro, but like all platforms they have certain limitations. The real test will be whether or not they use feedback like yours to improve their product.

I too like their dashboard metrics, but even more so I have been exploring their range of tools. They do a nice job of combining a number of tools that mostly require the use of a variety of other apps (more open browser tabs). Analytics, sync influence data, best time to tweet, discover other users, analyze competitors, analyze lists, etc. Of course, many of these are also included in Hootsuite.

Like I stated before, I’m still not ready to abandon Hootsuite; but I do think SocialBro has the promise of becoming another viable option as a comprehensive platform tool.

Wow – lots of Hootsuite love here. I’ve spent some time looking at a number of tools as well – each seems to have some unique differentiators. Sprout Social looked interesting and I’m considering a 30 day free trial. Argyle Social also looked great.

I too am tossing out a vote for hootsuite.  It has been a tool of vital importance to the success of my business needs as well.  I have not had a chance to check out Social Bro.

Have a great day all,

Swoops

I started Buffer and Hootsuite at the same time on two different clients, and Hootsuite interface, team management tools, and database scheduled tweets convinced me to drop Buffer. Maybe I should look again, but I really have everything I want in Hootsuite. 

Another Hootsuite and Buffer user here.  I use both to some extent and want to drop one, but have not decided which one yet. Both have high points that I like that are different. Hence the indecision. 

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