SMB Tech Roll-up: HootSuite Readies Blackberry Offering, SMBs Take to Hybrid SaaS

HootSuite has been busy making lives easier with a number of new announcements over the month of August including a private beta of their HootSuite for Blackberry. For cloud service vendors, there’s also some good news on SMB adaptation of SaaS and hybrid systems.

HootSuite Prepares Blackberry

August was a busy month for HootSuite (news, site). Yesterday, it announced that it is the first and only social media dashboard in the Apps.Gov catalog and is now listed as a social media dashboard application for United States government agencies.

This means that HootSuite's Terms of Service have been amended to address a few specific requirements for US federal agencies. Now these agencies can use HootSuite without jumping through extra hoops, approval queues or application processes.

Recently it also released HootSuite for iPhone version 1.1.6 for both the Full and Lite versions. HootSuite allows you to send and schedule Twitter and Facebook updates from virtually anywhere plus manage campaigns, schedule updates and even translate messages to over 50 languages.

Available in Full version (US$ 2.99) and ad-supported Lite (free) versions, HootSuite for iPhone will help you spread messages, monitor conversations and track results — all from your handset. Also HootSuite for iPhone is tightly integrated with HootSuite for web so you can quickly import accounts with help from a migration wizard to sync workflow.

And where there’s iPhone there’s Blackberry too. Last week, HootSuite and the other SMB favorite joined up in beta and are to go to general release soon. Running a private beta for a little over a month now, it comes with functions like support for multiple accounts and metrics.

The pilot batch of HootSuite for Blackberry beta users are testing the first iteration with more invites going out soon. It’s still not too late to be part of this beta so if you’re interested sign up!

GetResponse Releases SMB Form Builder

From mobile to email, GetResponse (news, site) which provides email marketing solutions for the SMB sector has just launched GetResponse Form Builder, enabling users to optimize their email campaigns by growing and segmenting their lists automatically.

Form Builder provides an easy way to build customized sign-up forms to attract subscribers, build email lists and capture critical profile data — without requiring any special IT, HTML or design skills.

GetResponse Form Builder Highlights include:

• 500+ designer templates
• Visual drag and drop editor
• Easy customization, powerful segmentation
• Dynamic "thank-you" pages
• Web form analytics

The GetResponse Form Builder is already available so if you want more on this check out the website.

Google Adds Priority Box to Gmail

Meanwhile, Google has also been busy making life easier for SMBs this week with the Priority Inbox, an experimental feature that sorts messages into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”.

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HootSuite has been busy making lives easier with a number of new announcements over the month of August including a private beta of their HootSuite for Blackberry. For cloud service vendors, there’s also some good news on SMB adaptation of SaaS and hybrid systems.