One week after announcing that they raised $1.9 Million from VCs and Angels, HootSuite is putting that money to work and have hired Dave Olson as their new Community Director.
Olson will be responsible for overseeing marketing, outreach, and support for HootSute and already has a number of educational and aspirational campaigns planned to evangelize the social media dashboard to content makers.
Olson was an early user of the initial Bright Kit tool and has actively used HootSuite for promoting his own projects - so this appears to be a perfect fit on both sides.
Up in until very recently, Olson was with Vancouver startup MovieSet - he wrapped up his duties there just last night after presenting a white paper called Social Promotion for Movies to the Canadian Film and TV Producers BC branch.
Olson made some noteworthy improvements at MovieSet during his time there and will no doubt continue overachieving in 2010 with HootSuite.
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Rob Lewis
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