Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

If you’re as into social media networks as I am you’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the launch of Google+ , a shiny new social network from Google. Adding the “ Authorship&# tag &# to syndicated posts will allow users to follow specific authors and list your content on the +1 tab of your Google profile.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

You see, lots of bloggers have their blog posts syndicated on other sites that aggregate content, and sometimes we write posts specific to a site just to get our names in front of more readers who frequent that particular web site. It’s like guest blogging, but more focused. Google won’t love you any more.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 13, 2011

In February Google rolled out an update to their algorithms likely directed at sites that duplicate content for article marketing as well as those that “spin&# articles (replacing phrases and words so they aren’t exact duplicates and then posting to article hosting sites). So what’s a blogger to do? Maybe not anymore.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

You may want to start by searching only blogs, or only Twitter or videos for example. Take the list and search their names, their blog title, URLs to find out how many mentions there are online. If the inbound links to their blog or profile aren’t relevant, their influence on that topic may not be so hot.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I also dictate blog post ideas, client meeting notes and other info I need on hand wherever I am. Google Drive -Managing documents everyone can edit and update without having to download. Google Drive -Managing documents everyone can edit and update without having to download. Meeting Hero -Syncs with your calendar.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 17, 2012

In this diagram taken from the Twitter developer blog they break Twitter’s ecosystem up into 4 quadrants. Here are some other posts about it if you want some other perspectives from bloggers like Dieter Bohn , Charles Arthur , The Next Web , As well as a tweet I found this morning that speaks to a whole different issue.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2010

Unfortunately you don’t always control what’s online about you so I’m a big advocate of setting up alerts in Google and Social Mention among others to get a heads up when someone posts something about you online. Think of your online conversations as an aggregate whole and not just one network at a time.

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