Janet Fouts

APRIL 18, 2014

Responding to issues within your company or customer feedback online before things get out of hand. He says the more technology we have, the more we interact on social networks, get emails and text messages, the more we need to slow down. With a little focused attention you’ll quickly see the benefits.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 30, 2014

A research paper released at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Facebook’s data scientists tells us they have been manipulating user’s newsfeeds to see if negative or positive emotions are as contagious on social networks as they are in real life. Don’t you hate it?).

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

There are actually quite a few social CRM services allowing you to tap into what people are saying about your company and reach out to them. lithium works with social listening tools to integrate mentions of issues or questions about your product into forums where you can communicate directly with your customers.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Equally, if you expect it to stand alone without the support of the people in your social networks you may as well rent a billboard in the desert. You write about the passion that makes your company great. If you create scads of content and expect people to flock to your brand out of nowhere you’re nuts.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 29, 2011

Then it has to be constantly tweaked to suit the needs of the company, the market, changing trends in the marketplace, news, corporate changes, a ton of factors, right? Explore social networks. All of the networks have their own characteristics. Then share something your network will find useful.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 19, 2012

So you might think my position would be that Google+ is the be-all end-all social media network for business and people should be pitching their blogs and Facebook pages out the window in favor of Google+. Building the brand of your company through the intelligence of your staff. And there you’d be mistaken.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 26, 2010

We’d spend the next hour or two with our phones turned off, and every time a social network or an iPhone app was mentioned the offender took a shot of Tequila (I don’t recommend this). It started out bravely, talking about my trip visiting family and her job at a tech company.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Find their peer group and show them what they are missing, how they could use social media as a collaboration tool and for professional development. Let them understand you’re not asking them to spend all day on social networks and that training is available to help them learn the right way to engage if they need it.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2011

As with most social networks, the most important things you can do are listen first and be yourself. SocialMention.com Search for things to talk about, your name, company name and set up those alerts. If you want to know what NOT to do, here’s a good post on Twitter gaffes. Search and set up some alerts.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founder Dalton Caldwell created this new network–known to fans as ADN– a mere 12 weeks ago as an ad-free, real-time social network. Initially the company set their fees at $50 for a year of service, but on October 1, 2012 they hit 20,000 users and lowered their prices as well as introducing an introductory month for just $5.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

Some companies are using Google+ for that reason and others understand that Google+ users do indeed represent their target market and those who influence the target market. While there is much focus on which social networking site will ultimately reign supreme, it is, to a large extent, a pointless conversation. AlmostSavvy.com.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I don’t care what social network you’re on actually, or who you are, if you wouldn’t say it to a crowd in Times Square with your Mom in the audience, just don’t say it, unless you want a call from Mom. No, this isn’t another diatribe against Justine Sacco , I think she’s had enough.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This allows you to easily promote them on your chosen social networks and schedule them to post at a particular time. The Hubspot tool even suggests the most appropriate times to post to reach your network most effectively. There’s also a bookmarklet, so you can post to your social networks from your browser on the fly.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 12, 2013

Today we may think it has to mean they use social media, but there’s more to it than that. Just having millions of followers, fans and “interactions” on social networks doesn’t make you social.

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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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