Chosen by many companies around the globe as one of the best social media management tool, Hootsuite gives you an easy to use interface through which you can manage up to 5 social media accounts as a free user including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, WordPress, Mixi, Instagram, Google+ amongs others, which can be much easier than trying to manage all of these accounts directly from a browser.

And while the free version doesn’t allow you to add any team members, for as little as $8.99 per month you can get Hootsuite Pro, which allows up to 50 social profiles, 1 extra team member, 1 enhanced analytics report, advanced post scheduling, unlimited apps and unlimited RSS feeds and a Hootcare option.

If you’re a business owner, join companies like IKEA, Eurostar and Virgin and get an enterprise account to gain full control over your social media content 24\7. Add more team members and enjoy an open eco system of social integration with various business apps. Hootsuite offers a free trial for the Pro account so you can test it out before you pay anything.

What you can do with your free Hootsuite account:

• Manage multiple Twitter, Facebook (profiles, events, groups and pages), LinkedIn (Profiles, Pages and Groups), WordPress, Google+, Foursquare, Mixi and others

• Post updates on every network from one place

• Track your posts and react immediately to conversatons

• Schedule your social media update

• Manage everything through Hootsuite’s mobile app

• Get customized analytics, included automated scheduled reports (could be a bit costly)

• Integrate RSS feeds

• Collaborate with your social media team by delegating responses and assigning tasks. You can also exchange messages.

• Monitor what is being said about your brand by creating a feed which is based on a search term (such as your business name) or a common hashtag.

• Weekly analytics report that gets sent to your email automatically with graphs depicting key metrics like number of clicks per day, geographical information, most popular links etc.

Hootsuite is compatible with all browsers and also has a mobile app for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.

How do you manage your social media accounts? Please let us know in the comments’ section.