Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 1, 2012

More than one of those books that gets you all jacked up and inspired but doesn’t quite give you the tools to move forward, this book delivers real case studies to learn from and a process for planning your own successes. For me everything relates to community in some way. Certainly a business does. Generosity in business.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

A potential employer can use a variety of tools to see how well you manage your personal brand online. Run some of the evaluation tools below to determine what somebody sees when they look you up. Momentus Media Community Health Score. This is a brand new tool to see how engaged your Facebook page is with your fans.

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Klout Brands Social Media Postrank 138

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. The Inbound Marketing Summit starts in San Francisco on Tuesday and the line-up of speakers looks fantastic. See the full agenda here.

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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. Are you prepared to use social media as a communication tool, not just another advertising medium? Shop locally and prefer hand-made and authenticity to mass production.

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Marketing Nielsen Authentication Knowledge Base 145

Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

You could lose your community. Even if you have listening tools set up that alert you to comments, that discussion takes place on the hosts’ web site, while your own post may sit with fewer comments. Hmm, well if your community is that easy to distract maybe you need to work on that a little more. Share the love.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The idea is to pull together respected content producers and sort them so they are easily digested by topic, concept, tools or type of content. Online community ? My posts are now included in a new topic hub focused on social media called Social Media Informer. Wanna know what’s going on in WordPress ? Upcoming conferences ?

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Social Media Upcoming WordPress Conference 132

Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I see a lot of new tools saying they are “Social CRM,” but so far it is more misused buzzword than tangible implementation.&#. I have to agree with Steve that these tools are not nearly as developed as we’d like, but they’re getting there. Steve Farnsworth, Jolt Social Media. Click here to join the private beta.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 8, 2012

By and large people get the value of building community around their cause. How to set up listening tools to do a lot of the work for you. I talk to nonprofits about various aspects of social media just about every day. Where to get help creating content and what you can actually automate without risking your relationships.

Social Media 132

Social Media Team Social Networking Issues 132

Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

The other half (75% if you can stand it) is created on the fly through curation of relevant content, responding to news items and conversations discovered through social listening tools. Social media is a fluid thing, you can’t cram it in a box and expect to really engage. Respond naturally.

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Content Marketing Fashion Curation 145

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. Building community while running a contest can be challenging, and sometimes fool-hardy.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

Takeaways from the discussion were many, and largely about developing a professional brand, creating real networks of people who are interested in the same topics, staying in good standing in the community and supportive of others in their extended networks. Internal networks. Be a resource within your organization.

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Social Networking Yammer LinkedIn Resources 138

Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Meerkat and Periscope are being used as broadcasting tools for the most part. This platform builds community super quickly. Streaming right into Youtube is nice, to be sure, but I’ll give it up for downloading the stream from Blab or embedding it into my website. And I guarantee Blab.im

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2011

LexTweet A community of Lawyers on Twitter as well as a blog network. Here’s a list of a few more advanced social media listening tools. Read them too, follow them if they’re interesting and engage them in a discussion. Twitter resources for lawyers. Legal Birds The folks at Justia maintain a list sorted by practice area.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 22, 2010

To move quickly and decisively as new issues develop, evaluate new tools and networks for their usefulness, usability and appropriateness. 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?

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Social Media Skills Energy Communities 126

Janet Fouts

JUNE 3, 2013

This post is intended to help you see a crisis coming and have the tools in place to assist. Set up monitoring tools for reputation management. 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. Monitor first, last and always.

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Social Media Construction Reputation Patterns 176

Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Frankly it’s not the most intuitive network and there aren’t a lot of tools that make the UI easier to manage. Ah, but within the Google+ circles and communities there are some great discussions going on and you’re missing out. Maybe it’s because you just don’t get how it works or how to use it!

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Any tool that makes that easier (makes it easiest, I should say) will thrive, and any tool or effort that makes human communication and sharing harder or impedes it (hello, RIAA) is destined for destruction. The tools themselves are ephemeral and temporary: don’t get attached to them. Community matters.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. ” … “ The question for organizational communications to ponder is whether or not their community lives on social networks and has an appetite for live streaming in these channels. You get instant feedback and engage viewers. “– Frank Strong.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. ” … “ The question for organizational communications to ponder is whether or not their community lives on social networks and has an appetite for live streaming in these channels. You get instant feedback and engage viewers. “– Frank Strong.

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Video Ustream Twitter API 70