Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Engineering Manager, LinkedIn. Look at social media networks for the movers and shakers and learn from them. Use social media to educate yourself on where you want to be, not just where you are. Social media isn’t about you.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2013

Twubs’ engineers created a beautiful visual interface and allows you to register a Hashtag with the service, add multiple admins who will them be able to manage the chat from the Twubs Dashboard, highlight specific users within the stream and block out those nasty trolls at least if the users are using Twubs to monitor the chat.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the beauties of social media is the opportunity to ask your network and extended networks a question and get an answer quickly. In addition, since opening to search engines a question on Quora can pop up on a Google or Bing search fast, getting those of us who still Google everything for answers an even better result.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

Duplicate content is becoming a bigger deal with search engines. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content. Hmm, well if your community is that easy to distract maybe you need to work on that a little more.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2010

The Abundant Water project was initiated by Sunny Forsyth, an Australian engineer and AW project manager. Tags: Social Media in Action Abundant Water. In a short time water contaminated with pathogens can be safe for drinking. About the founder of Abundant Water. YOU can help change that.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 29, 2011

The site takes your activities on the site, the investments in you and the amount of social interaction on popular social media sites as runs some sort of algorithm to gauge your value overall. If you want to increase your value you make your investors happy, interact a lot on your social networks and on the site and voila!

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Janet Fouts

MAY 28, 2013

Not only is it good SEO (Search Engine Optimization), but it allows you to suggest the description that the user will get when they pin that image. social business Social Media Tips and Tricks' Add Alt text that includes the description of the image. Many sites don’t take advantage of ALT tags on their images.

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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. Keeping an online community lively and exciting is a combination of psychology, sociology, social engineering, user interface design, and black magic.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I work with a talented team of community managers and I know many more through speaking, conferences and social media. After managing a community, digging out answers to questions from the engineers, marketing and the CEO don’t you think your community manager knows about your brand? I’m getting there.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 7, 2014

See the stats from SimplyMeasured in this Search Engine watch post , and Twitter’s own evaluation of the buzz below. Facebook Googleplus Social Media Tips and Tricks Twitter strategy Google Plus hashtags Twitter' dA52KUQD7A pic.twitter.com/sZo0zYLWON. Twitter Open Source (@TwitterOSS) March 18, 2014.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The online social media magazine Social Media Examiner didn’t waste any time creating a page, and neither did most of the regular users of Google Plus. According to reports from the Google engineers they’re working on this. How could we resist? It’s a drop down list of all the pages you own.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Currently few social media management tools offer Google+ support, though Hootsuite will be soon. Go to the Google search engine and type in Toyota+ to see what I mean. Heck, there are several pages already called “Social Media Coach”! Social Media Coach! Apply here. Macy’s.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Conversations tend to be casual often focus on the sharing of jokes and gossip, movies and social gaming. Maybe because social media is my business and I like geeks. The largest group of users on Google+ is still engineers and designers although there has been a remarkable upswing of photographers and scientists of late.

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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+. This includes the CEO, the marketing team and your engineers. And there you’d be mistaken. Here’s the thing.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

If you’re as into social media networks as I am you’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the launch of Google+ , a shiny new social network from Google. If you weren’t lucky enough to score an invite, here’s a demo to tease you.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 31, 2011

It’s also a URL the search engines will pick up, so think carefully. From a search engine perspective it’s fine. It’s the only way people are going to find you on Facebook. What should be in your name? First off, no spaces. Facebook turns spaces into hyphens. What’s wrong with that? Google likes hyphens.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 5, 2014

Let’s talk about networked approaches & social media for training and capacity building for the nonprofit sector that leverage learning and impact. Chieftain of the blog {grow} and social media bouncer. Social Media and Internet Marketing consultant for small to medium businesses. Beth Kanter.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

One list for foodies, one list for hardware geeks, a list for social media folks, a list for news and on and on. There’s been a lot of buzz around how Google+ is a goldmine for Search Engine Optimization and it’s true. Googleplus Social Media Tips and Tricks Google Plus' The SEO card.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 22, 2019

An entrepreneur who has built and sold five companies with an average ROI of 700 percent, she was a software engineer in the early days of Microsoft and Apple. She specializes in applied neuroscience, which helps her clients achieve tremendous results in record time.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 27, 2014

27,000 people poured into Moscone center in San Francisco, and Cisco invited 20 of us to attend as VIP social media ambassadors hand picked by Bryan Kramer of PureMatter. Corporate Social Media social business' I just got back from #CiscoLive last week. Man, what an event! I had a great time at #CLUS!

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

While we have very little demographic data about our boards it’s clearly showing up in search engines too. “Hot Cars” is clear and much more likely to both gain interest from users and seo form the search engines. Create your board title with SEO in mind. “My board” doesn’t mean a thing.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 22, 2018

Most people discovered all this very recently, and there are a ton of stories like this one , on Christopher Wylie, a data geek who engineered a lot of this and then became a whistleblower when he saw how his data analytics skills were being used. (Um… Um… DUH). Read the story, it’s pretty mindblowing.

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