Janet Fouts

JUNE 2, 2011

I’ve been gratified and a little puzzled by some of the people who follow me on Twitter (or any other social network for that matter). I did a little rough surveying of my Twitter friends and it seems there are really only a few ways people make the decision to follow or not follow on Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 18, 2014

Instead of letting the cacophony of social media and business matters drive you, take control of what you allow to be important. Knee jerk reactions to a flame war on Twitter are not going to make things better. So much of what we see businesses doing on social media these days is about building fans, follows, connections and leads.

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Energy Social Media Social Networking Issues 144

Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

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. You might see it re-surface now and then and bring you some more Twitter love. For that you need a network of connections, preferably with connections of their own! Create content regularly. Answer questions.

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Social Media Insurance Questions Social Networking 148

Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

I really do think this is important stuff, and that’s probably what Guy Kawasaki means when he calls people Twitter Nazis , I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. So here’s a thumbnail of just 4 “social networks&# and how community applies to them (in my opinion). Look to Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

We all *think* we’re doing great when the Twitter alerts are rolling, Email’s pinging, Facebook is always open and your RSS feeds are pushing you new content to share. Here are a few tips to make the time you spend working on social media marketing tasks, and your entire day, more useful to everyone. Efficient right?

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Social Media Marketing RSS Study 70

Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

If you have some must-have apps for your business, why not share ‘em in the comments? website for curating posts in my areas of interest, but being able to scan titles and share just-out news with my social networks and my clients while I’m in line at the bank or waiting for a flight makes it just that much sweeter.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

One woman told me that she was trying to get the CXO’s to use social media as part of their brand awareness. 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. Social media is not for everybody.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

On the one hand it’s got the best features of Twitter like immediacy and fast moving conversations with the added plus of being able to direct conversations to channels (Circles) of people who are actually interested in that topic and exclude the ones who could care less. It’s Twitter on steroids. OptimizeBook.com.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

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. Klout scores now show up in the Twitter streams of those who use Seesmic and some other apps. Peer Index.

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Klout Brands Social Media Postrank 138

Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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. On Twitter today Myspace is trending, not because it’s about Myspace but because people are suggesting Facebook is doomed to the same fate as Myspace.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

We all know video is wildly popular across the board and people love the experience of sharing their life experiences with others in real time.When Meerkat launched in March it got a huge bump from social media marketers who created live video in real time from the South by Southwest conference. Remember Qik (say “quick”)?

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

We all know video is wildly popular across the board and people love the experience of sharing their life experiences with others in real time.When Meerkat launched in March it got a huge bump from social media marketers who created live video in real time from the South by Southwest conference. Remember Qik (say “quick”)?

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Video Ustream Twitter API 70

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. Turn off Twitter. Leaving Twitter open in your browser all day is distracting. I tell clients to pick one network you like. Turn off email.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Google+ is a great social network. People are constantly dissing this particular network even though it really has more intelligent conversation going on than many other networks. I like to say Google+ combines the best of Twitter and Facebook on one network.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This year flew by and the sheer number of new social networks and applications is simply stunning. I wanted to take a moment to thank just a few of the people I’ve learned from this year and I asked them to share an answer to the following question: What was the most important thing you learned about social media this year?

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