Janet Fouts

JULY 19, 2010

Every successful blogger or blogging coach will tell you it’s important to blog regularly to maintain the interest of your readers. How often is up to you, but often it’s helpful to set a sort of schedule to your blogging so people begin to expect to hear from you on a regular basis. I hope so anyway!).

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

If you’re interrupting your creation of a blog post to respond to tweets or the pinging of your email it will take you much longer to write that post won’t it? You’ll learn more and your comments and shares will be more thoughtful. Keep a file where you save every possible blog topic. One platform at a time.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

So you built a new blog , set up a Facebook page and started tweeting and STILL you’ve got virtually no friends? Sure, there may be a half life if somebody sees it and re-tweets it or links to it in a blog post or another network. Share others content with links and comments on the value of what they’ve contributed.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 2, 2010

At least it might get you in the door, and maybe you won’t end up on the Bad Pitch Blog. Comment when it’s relevant, re-tweet them on Twitter and share links you think they will find useful. Read their blog! Read the blog and see if it is a good fit. The Blog Action Day event is a huge success year after year.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 12, 2015

In fact, they just announced some big changes at the six week mark on their Medium blog. Reply to comments in your broadcast directly by tapping the comment and then hitting reply. I prefer to allow only users I follow on Periscope to chat as this blocks of 99% of the trolls and negative comments. What’s new.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 31, 2011

Not only do you get a bigger picture of who is visiting a site or reading a particular blog post, you get to wander around and see where they’ve been recently and thought was important enough to share too. Here’s where you can get it and instructions to include it on your site or blog as well– One True Fan. Time will tell?

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Janet Fouts

MAY 11, 2011

&# , “How do you deal with spam on your blog&# ? “I love the new look on the blog, and the post about peanut butter made me laugh!&# Watch their blogs and social profiles for topics. When you find a great article or blog post find out where that person is on social metworks. How do you keep it real?

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Blogs were in their infancy and we used bulletin boards and comment streams on posts to communicate with our user-base and we loved every second of it. Waay back in the 1990s I co-founded a startup on-line community for the restaurant industry.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 19, 2012

So you might think my position would be that Google+ is the be-all end-all social media network for business and people should be pitching their blogs and Facebook pages out the window in favor of Google+. Micro-blog. Really Google+ might be a good replacement for your micro-blog. Post URLs here with a short comment or two.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

She’d send them emails with links to blogs they could comment on, tweets for their information, etc. Several other people in the room commented they had similar issues. Any Marketer worth her salt knows that pretending to be the CEO and writing tweets–god forbid commenting as– the CEO is social media poison.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Comment and share some more. Commenting on another user’s post gets you into the conversation. He’s super smart, his blog is a gold mine of knowledge and yesterday, it turns out, he shared his “top 99″ people circle. What do you want to talk about? Louis Gray I can’t say enough about Louis.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Comment on blogs or social posts adding value to the discussion. Social media is a fluid thing, you can’t cram it in a box and expect to really engage. Go with the flow the same way you would at a huge networking event. Look for the people you want to talk to, then let the conversation guide you. Respond naturally.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Learn more about how to create Google+ Communities on the Tatu Digital Media Blog. Within a community if you add your comment on an older discussion it doesn’t move to the top, so unless you are watching that discussion carefully you could completely miss new comments. Wanna get specific? The future of Google+ Communities.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 16, 2011

Here’s what I think, but I’d love to hear your perspective in the comments. People develop relationships with me on Twitter , Facebook , Quora , LinkedIn, my blog and slew of other places before we talk on the phone or meet in person, and we develop trust. That’s a question not a statement. Then we do business.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 19, 2011

If your blog is an automated sales pitch with comments turned off, do us all a favor and just go take out an ad and get over it. Social media is work. It’s good work. It’s important work.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 25, 2011

The list below might give you an idea of what women are working on now, and find a little inspiration on these blogs and the projects too! Yes, I know there are more, list your favs and tell us more in the comments! WOMEN & OPEN SOURCE: What’s In It For Me? Kim Polese-Founder of Marimba, CEO SpikeSource. Science Foo Camp.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Guy Kawasaki, Britney Spears, the Dalai Lama are some of the most re-shared and commented people on Google +. Make it easy for the fans you’ve already got on your web site or blog to share your posts directly to Google+. You can put a Google+ badge on your blog for your Google+ page here. On your web site.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2011

If you are at the panel tonight for Hastings School of Law please let me know what you thought of it in the comments. LexTweet A community of Lawyers on Twitter as well as a blog network. BlawgSearch Justia also offers links to lawyers blogging sorted by practice area. The slides will be added below as well.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

Is one of the best blog metrics tools out there, and now they’re reaching deeper into your traffic incorporating Google Analytics and Feedburner. Is one of the best blog metrics tools out there, and now they’re reaching deeper into your traffic incorporating Google Analytics and Feedburner. Postrank Analytics. Peer Index.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Anybody who has ever read one of John’s blog posts or heard him speak knows he’s a straight shooting, plain speaking business leader who has a knack for making just good business sense available to everyone. The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It , by John Jantsch.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

Steveology Blog. Google has already made several announcements signaling their clear intention to integrate Plus content and comments in results. These were the questions that were going through my mind as I listened to a presentation on Google+. Steve Farnsworth. So, should business be on Google+ now?

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

For a while you’re addicted to watching who re-tweets you, mentions your brand on their blog or says something about you on a Facebook page. Pay attention to who is listening to the negative comment. Maybe Radian6 , SM2 , Trackur or one of these social media listening tools I mention when I give talks on social media.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 5, 2014

Follow them on Twitter, read their blogs. Add away in the comments and click the links below to tweet these people thanks for being an inspiration. Chieftain of the blog {grow} and social media bouncer. Consultant, educator, podcaster, author of Return On Influence, Born to Blog, and The Tao of Twitter. holtz.com/blog.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 31, 2011

By doing this, Frank reached thousands of people through Google Plus , Twitter , Facebook and several blogs , possibly many more than the Occupy Wall St folks simply because of his own network combined with the powerful networks who were at Pivotcom. She blogged about it and then posted on the wall of the Chapstick Facebook page.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

Make sure you add links to your other networks, your blog and your syndicated content ( here’s how ). comment on your posts go to your phone. If you get one for every time anybody comments it will drive you bats. You can disable comments or re shares, but only after the post is added. Tab and Return End a comment.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Send traffic to your blog, where deeper conversations can take place. Have a clear call to action on the blog so people can do something when they get there. Make sure it’s easy for people to comment and share your brilliance with others. They’re your social media evangelists.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

On her blog Beth Kanter mentions the term “Lethal Generosity&# as defined by Shel Israel in his book Twitterville. When I write a blog post it feels so good to see that not only did people read it but they have something to add to the discussion. Comment when it’s appropriate. Links in your blog.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I follow almost 4,000 people on Twitter , over 1500 on Linkedin , and more on Facebook , Google+ , blogs , forums, a zillion social networks, wikis and more. If you blog create an editorial calendar. I get around 800 emails a day (half of them are alerts, newsletters and feed reports for my clients).

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 28, 2011

check your Edgerank here ) To put it simply Facebook looks at how many friends you have for your Facebook page, how many times your friends have interacted with your posts (share, liked, commented), The algorithm runs and checks to see if there is an affinity between you and each fan. Have you commented on something they posted?

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 12, 2010

There’s a saying in social media that goes something like this “You know you’ve “arrived&# when you’ve got trolls commenting on your work&#. Shel responded publicly, mostly on Twitter, and on his blog , but pretty much anything he did only added fuel to the fire. That’s right. The trolls.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2010

FYI profile images link to Twitter and names link to blogs or websites. Since time is precious, it’s essential to create a system for repurposing your best blog content so you can syndicate it to multiple platforms in multiple formats (text, audio and video). Share your answer in the comments, we’d love to hear from you.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 10, 2011

A post on their blog, written by Yvonne Maffel , offered up recipes featuring Saffron Road’s offerings and giving a little background on Ramadan and that she would be giving away coupons and gift cards on her blog, My Halal Kitchen. The feedback on the Whole Foods blog is overall positive and friendly. Best, Elizabeth.

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