Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the beauties of social media is the opportunity to ask your network and extended networks a question and get an answer quickly. Quora seems to attract a more business focused following, and when Robert Scoble muses that it might replace blogging, it turns heads. Often it comes from from people with hands on experience.

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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+. This includes the CEO, the marketing team and your engineers. Micro-blog. And there you’d be mistaken.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 14, 2011

Whether you work with a grass roots organization or a humongous nonproft you know that social media can be an effective way to make your message more visible out there in the world. Keeping an online community lively and exciting is a combination of psychology, sociology, social engineering, user interface design, and black magic.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Conversations tend to be casual often focus on the sharing of jokes and gossip, movies and social gaming. Maybe because social media is my business and I like geeks. The largest group of users on Google+ is still engineers and designers although there has been a remarkable upswing of photographers and scientists of late.

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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. As Michael Martine wrote on his blog,&# Another Social Network to Suck Away My Time? Although this may sound elitist, it’s still true.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 5, 2014

Follow them on Twitter, read their blogs. Let’s talk about networked approaches & social media for training and capacity building for the nonprofit sector that leverage learning and impact. Chieftain of the blog {grow} and social media bouncer. holtz.com/blog. Beth Kanter. bethkanter.org.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

While we have very little demographic data about our boards it’s clearly showing up in search engines too. “Hot Cars” is clear and much more likely to both gain interest from users and seo form the search engines. Reciprocation is the core of social interaction. Create your board title with SEO in mind.

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