Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

You’re happy in your company, so why build a personal brand through social media? You’ll find a community of other people working in that very same space participating in social media somewhere. Who is the smartest in your community of practice? Professional development and networking with peers.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If you’re interested in the social media channel for your business you should check this out. My posts are now included in a new topic hub focused on social media called Social Media Informer. Online community ? Tags: Social Media in Action blogging Social Media.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A talented community manager is a nurturer, an arbiter of quarrels, a font of information and resources, and a facilitator of discussions that encourage growth.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

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. Now, I’m one of those old school community people. Who are we to define what is truly community?

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Janet Fouts

JULY 13, 2020

As responsible and conscious marketers we are taking a closer look at how marketing is handing issues of culture, diversity and inclusion, especially on social media (this is mindful social after all!). Rai-mon Nemar Barnes “How do we do better?” Rai-mon was born with this question in his ear.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

Momentus Media Community Health Score. Like Momentus Media’s application it can be quite revealing to see how it scores your friends and competitors and even compare them through a nifty drag-and-drop interface. Please don’t take increasing your influence score as the holy grail of community.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Komen made this announcement: “We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities” Supporters of Planned parenthood were excited.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 11, 2020

The community has responded with free mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and exercise classes online. I’ve worked in startups, marketing, social media and teaching mindfulness, emotional intelligence and positive psychology. Social media marketing and business strategizing. What can we do about it? Leadership.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Prefer to spend more on socially responsible companies and say a company’s commitment to the community influences their decision to work there. They’re social. Let’s take a more mindful approach to marketing, especially through social media. They text instead of using voicemail or email.

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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. Managing Online Communities – Rik Panganiban ( TechSoup.org ). Do you use video as part of the social media outreach for your nonprofit?

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Many corporations use gamification to encourage employee engagement , sharing of company information on social media, and meeting performance goals. This particular app also has a community aspect, where people can share their own insights and joining groups around their areas of interest. Is community engagement gamification?

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Janet Fouts

MAY 29, 2011

Basically Empire Avenue is a community (and I use that term loosely here) where members buy and sell virtual shares in each other in the hopes of getting rich in currency of the site, called “eaves&#. If you’re in it for community forget it. It’s not really about community, it’s about having fun trading shares.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 12, 2010

Social media has had such a huge impact on small businesses, both to reach out to a global audience and to their own backyard as well. That’s why I suggested this panel for next year’s SXSW , and I asked some amazing local business and social media folks to join me. There are some fantastic panels proposed.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Social media managers are then charged with locating supporting content and resources to support the editorial calendar, locate influencers who are interested in these topics and begin to engage them on the appropriate social media sites. social business Social Media Tips and Tricks'

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Janet Fouts

JULY 28, 2013

This conference brings together business leaders, agency execs and their teams with keynotes and expert panels, as well as solutions providers and their tools, all in a dynamic, community-based setting. Social Media in Action speaking' See the full agenda here. Didn’t get your ticket yet?

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 12, 2014

But you can’t tell us it’s all about community and engagement and then stick it to us on organic reach! Use Facebook as just another social media network in your toolbox but not as the be-all end-all of your marketing campaign. Facebook Social Media Networks Facebook ads Facebook likes'

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Social media is all about community and community is about sharing. Sure there’s a loudmouth in every community who broadcasts his or her wares to all who will listen and profess to be the ‘expert’ People tune them out eventually. Don’t be that person.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

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. Look at social media networks for the movers and shakers and learn from them. LaSandra Brill Sr.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

You could lose your community. Hmm, well if your community is that easy to distract maybe you need to work on that a little more. I mean really, all of the communities online from Forums and Youtube to Twitter and Facebook use the user-generated content on their site to earn revenue and we don’t seem to mind so much.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 6, 2010

The magazine is full of the coolest gadgets, the hippest companies and really good information and the website is a vibrant community. The site which recently launched entices a user to enter their name and view their social media influence. So what went wrong with the “Influence Project&# ?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 8, 2015

Do you communicate best through video, short messages with links, long blog posts, images, or in-depth conversations with your community? Hopefully you set up a list of intentions, (or KPIs) for your social media outreach before you started signing up for networks. Corporate Social Media Marketing mindfulsocial'

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

According to Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang , social CRM will give businesses a way to really focus on listening to what their customers want and still have time to do business. “Jeremiah Owyang’s vision of Social CRM where products that we want will find us, will be realized. Steve Farnsworth, Jolt Social Media.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 15, 2017

They also offered child care, low-income housing, supportive services, childcare, after-school programs, tenant services and community gardens. Our willingness to take bold risks, community connection and distinct designs communicate, “Business, Not Bullets”–flipping the view on how wars are won.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2010

In 2007, whilst working as an Australian Government Youth Ambassador for Development, Sunny became aware of the lack of access to safe drinking water in rural communities in Laos. Tags: Social Media in Action Abundant Water. The Abundant Water project was initiated by Sunny Forsyth, an Australian engineer and AW project manager.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Blogging was about community, communication and storytelling. Tags: Social Media in Action blogging. I was among the first bloggers and we used it as a storytelling medium to encourage discussion on our web site. It worked too. It was awesome. it still is. Oh, and bloggers as corporate drones?

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2011

LexTweet A community of Lawyers on Twitter as well as a blog network. GovTwit a social media directory for government agencies and officials. JD Supra Really a great resource across several social media networks. Here’s a list of a few more advanced social media listening tools.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 1, 2012

For me everything relates to community in some way. John suggests that “In a perfect world, every business would spend a year or so doing nothing but community building before they ever open the doors.” How much would that community trust you as a business and value you as a part of the community?

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

This platform builds community super quickly. If your goal on social media is to reach an audience that is really interested in similar topics, Blab will boost your following with real organic connections. And I guarantee Blab.im I set a timer to remind me to turn it off or I’d never stop listening and chatting!

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Janet Fouts

JULY 19, 2010

This just encourages community discussion and give a wider point of view on the subject at hand. Tags: Social Media Tips and Tricks blogging. I’m not suggesting you should steal an idea, but listen to what others are saying and add your own take on it. Let your readers participate and we are all richer for it.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Steve Farnsworth Has lots of good tips about social media, marketing, PR and business. He calls it “New School Marketing” Debra Askanase Is on top of what’s going on in the non profit sector and online community building. He loves to test Mac apps too and being a Mac geek that appeals to me.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 13, 2018

It’s a bit long, but here are some highlights from his post : “…recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.”

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Be a part of the community, engage people and move the conversation forward. Tatu Digital Media offers influencer outreach and chat moderation. Contact us to see how we can help you build your community through Tweet chats. Do they participate in chats or hold chats of their own you could join?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 6, 2013

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. Why does Instagram work so well? Because we humans are most inspired by visuals.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 24, 2013

I tagged along for parts of it, and heard some amazing stories of this community of men and women, straight, gay and all colors of the rainbow who mass together to show their desire to make a difference. It is nearly impossible today to not have been affected in some way by this HIV/AIDS.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 13, 2011

The Blue Key Community is a growing contingent of Americans to support over 6,000 UNHCR staffers working with refugees around the world to find them shelter, food and the care they need to survive and have hope for a brighter future. You think they get lattes in a refugee camp?

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 22, 2010

What it takes to be a success in social media is the ability to be fluid and organic in your approach. To interact with your users and community and listen to what their needs and desires are. You pay attention very closely to what your community wants to do. What platforms do they like? What networks do they avoid?

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 3, 2013

At a very minimum set up Google alerts, but we recommend setting up additional social listening tools as well to be sure to get timely reporting. If you need some free or low-cost listening tools here’s a list of social media listening tools to get you started. Trying to smother a social media crisis is like gas on a fire.

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