Janet Fouts

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

I’ve been an active user online for many years so I’m pretty easy to find. You can’t mention activism and social media without James Karl Buck coming up. His tweet activated his social network and word spread quickly. Change the date across all your networks.

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What’s the best social media marketing tool for scheduling your updates?

Janet Fouts

Why social media scheduling is necessary – and what to look for: The most obvious reason why you need scheduling is that it saves you quite a bit of time – but also the fact that you can’t always be online, posting updates around the clock. But, not just any social media scheduling tool will do. Collaboration tools.

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Gaming Mindfulness

Janet Fouts

Today, when we think of gamification there are thousands of examples, from games for learning specific tasks, understanding our emotions, encouraging employee engagement, and, of course, to develop mindfulness practices. It also has an option to auto-post to social networks with a notice you are starting or just completed meditation.

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Using social media across cultures

Janet Fouts

Most businesses are now well aware of the benefits that using social media can bring, such as driving sales, getting customer feedback, building brand awareness and more. However, the majority are still only focusing on major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Empire Avenue – Measurement of Social Influence?

Janet Fouts

The site takes your activities on the site, the investments in you and the amount of social interaction on popular social media sites as runs some sort of algorithm to gauge your value overall. If you want to increase your value you make your investors happy, interact a lot on your social networks and on the site and voila!

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Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

Janet Fouts

That’s even more true in a social network whose users are often less web savvy and thrown by major UI changes as well as concerned about privacy issues. Facebook chooses top stories for you.Top stories are based on how active people are on the story (remember the importance of edge rank!). Facebook news feed changes.

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

It used to be this would return a list of scholarly papers, some nasty pictures of you at a bachelor party, a random smattering of form posts about cupcakes or software and possibly your connections on some social networks. What do they do differently and can you learn from their example? Looking for a job in marketing?

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