Janet Fouts

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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

Silicon Valley Tech Women held a panel at the shiny new SalesForce offices in downtown San Francisco entitled Leveraging Social Networking to Advance Your Career. Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Most of the panel chunks up time throughout the day to manage their social networks. LaSandra Brill Sr.

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Marketers are freaking out about Facebook

Janet Fouts

By now you’ve probably heard the recent announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about engagement on Facebook. ” “I’m changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions.” What does it mean? Think edutainment.

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Have we got our head in the clouds about the value of online community?

Janet Fouts

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. If it’s not yours, or if it is, please– for the love of community –pitch in and SAY something! We were talking about how to build community on a Facebook page and whether or not that’s really even possible. Brand building.

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Putting Instagram events to work for your business

Janet Fouts

The popularity of Instagram is clear, and if you are inclined to snap photos and share them with your friends and customers on social networks you can make your business more social and build a powerful sharing community on Instagram quickly. Measure the other networks too. Why does Instagram work so well?

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

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. Momentus Media Community Health Score. Does it give you more info than Facebook’s insights reports?

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Are you Blabbing up a storm yet?

Janet Fouts

Both apps allow some engagement with your Twitter following, and Meerkat also gives the option to connect to your Facebook account. This platform builds community super quickly. Sure, there is conversation in the comment stream but frankly, in a buzy stream it can hard to respond and focus. resolves a lot of these issues. Bottom line.

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What’s a social CRM going to do for my business?

Janet Fouts

Some are really a contact management system that allows you to use social media listening strategies to keep tabs on your customer database, while others offer a way to create communities around your products and then your sales and support team can interact with them. As a social media coach I work with a lot of companies.