Janet Fouts

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Are you using old skool strategies with new media tools?

Janet Fouts

I recently had an issue with a purchase at Whole Foods market. A mindless auto response directing me to take the issue customer service might have resulted in me feeling a bit resentful which might have carried over to my going to the store with a complaint or whining more loudly on Twitter. I blog about it.

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Social media is not a weapon

Janet Fouts

We’ve all heard the story about the blogger at a Blogher event who threatened the Crocs shoes rep with retribution on her blog, waving around her legions of followers as a reason to give her free shoes, and there are a lot of these stories, more every day.

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Am I talking to myself over here? My Feedburner saga

Janet Fouts

But I never really got around to updating my own blogs until yesterday, when I realized two of them were no longer working. Now, this blog is syndicated on several sites and I send the RSS feed to Triberr and quite a few other places and they seemed to be getting the feed, so what gives? Why go with a paid service?

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What does a latte have to do with a blue key?

Janet Fouts

blog about it, follow them UN Refugee Agency on Twitter become a Blue Key Champion and help spread the word! Read the book online to learn more about the issue, read real stories in the letters of refugees around the planet, and help raise awareness in your own network.

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How can using social media as an employee help my company?

Janet Fouts

Do a search on S ocial Mention to find blogs, forums, discussions on Twitter or other micro-blogs. Learn about issues with your own products or the products of a competitor and put the fires out before they get big. Once you find out where the people you want to talk to are you can create a strategy to build your brand.

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What Twitter’s Rate Limit Changes Mean to You

Janet Fouts

There are a lot of complicated issues here, and if you’re not a developer you probably don’t care about those, so I’m not going to explain the differences between Rest API limiting and Feature-base limiting, you can learn all you want about that in Twitter’s docs. What about emergency uses of Twitter? What can I do?

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What’s the right balance of personal and professional in social media?

Janet Fouts

&# , “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. Another friend, Irene Koehler actively looks for ways to help people with their social media issues.