Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Facebook is showing off a brand new look and as usual everybody’s in a snit about it. On Twitter today Myspace is trending, not because it’s about Myspace but because people are suggesting Facebook is doomed to the same fate as Myspace. Facebook should focus on it’s strengths and what it’s user base wants.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 20, 2013

A social media coach quitting Facebook? Calm down, I’m not giving up Facebook entirely, just my Facebook business page. ” in 2009 I dutifully created a Facebook page for the the book, making what I now consider a classic mistake for many authors. Creating a Facebook page for a book can be short-sighted.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

If you’re a social media geek you already know about Facebook’s live session today to introduce their new messaging system. Facebook’s Zuckerberg says This is NOT email, “Email’s too formal&#. a Google Wave thread. Remember the Google Wave security nightmare? Here are the basic features.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 1, 2011

Everybody is talking about the deadline on March 11 when Facebook will no longer allow users to add new FBML applications to their Facebook page. Besides, if you’re not a coder, or don’t have one working for you, it can be a bit daunting to create a Facebook application and the code for the iframes yourself.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 6, 2011

Google just introduced their “ plus 1 &# button. If you’re in a big hurry you can sign into Google’s Experimental Labs and add this experiment to your services. Here’s a video description of how it works (from Google’s point of view.). So who sees your +1′s? So who sees your +1′s?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 31, 2011

It’s the only way people are going to find you on Facebook. Facebook turns spaces into hyphens. Google likes hyphens. Google likes hyphens. Somebody asks for your Facebook page address and you say: Sure, it’s “Facebook.com slash river hyphen city hyphen widget hyphen factory&# !

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 11, 2020

Mike is an expert in leadership, teamwork and emotional intelligence and works with a wide range of clients, including Google, Wells Fargo, the IRS, Charles Schwab and many others. Facebook. About Mike. Find Mike Across social media: Website.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 7, 2018

He’s an expert in leadership, teamwork and emotional intelligence and works with a wide range of clients, including Google, Wells Fargo, the IRS, Charles Schwab and many others. Facebook. Enjoy the podcast! Find more about Mike and his books on his website: Mike-Robbins.com. And: Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 20, 2012

A recent AP Newswire story tells the tale of one Justin Bassett who was asked by a hiring manager for his user name on Facebook. Even if they don’t ask for your password you can bet an HR person will have googled you and viewed your profiles on Linkedin,Twitter, Facebook and Google+ at the very least. So what to do?

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 28, 2018

It works with most major social networks, namely: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, and YouTube; in terms of scheduling, thought, with all but YouTube. First of all, it only works with 3 social networks: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2020

Google advised all employees in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Canada, and US to work from home. Facebook gave employees free Portal devices so they could stay connected while working from home through April 10, but contractors whose jobs require them to be in the office are still apparently required to come in or take PTO.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 13, 2018

Of course, we are all aware of the privacy issues now in the news about Facebook and other major networking sites. Now, not many companies harvest as much data as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others, but we should still take these new rules as good practice. So does Google, Facebook, Twitter and so many others.

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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. Read the abstract of their testing here. Their summary.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 7, 2014

Which resulted in this gem on Youtube and countless tweets and Facebook posts. Facebook Googleplus Social Media Tips and Tricks Twitter strategy Google Plus hashtags Twitter' Quantas thought they’d get a great deal of love from their happy passengers on the hashtag #Quantas Luxury. Disclosure, @TheDesmondTutu is a client).

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Unfortunately as soon as Aardvark was acquired by Google it pretty much went to. I agree with Scoble that Quora has paid close attention to what works about Facebook, Twitter and yes, even Google Wave and combined it into an easy to use and compelling product.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 24, 2011

In it she describes her experience on the island and she also talks about updating Facebook and Twitter and reaching out to family and friends during Anders Behring Breivik’s rampage. She calls her mother, texts her father and then sends tweets and Facebook posts to her friends. I Google translated a couple of tweets.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 27, 2014

I can help you with SEO, Facebook, Twitter or Google Ads, WordPress or general consulting about social media and digital marketing. Even better, through the end of April the Montpelier Foundation will match all loans up to $25K! So do this right now. What have you got to lose? social business'

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

Not many on the panel are super-users, but the power of having a presence on Google+ for local businesses, adding the authorship tags to your blog to establish your authority on a topic can’t be ignored. LaSandra mentioned her husband getting requests from journalists for information and they re-post with attribution. Internal networks.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

So you built a new blog , set up a Facebook page and started tweeting and STILL you’ve got virtually no friends? That was before there were 90 million tweets per day and 60 million Facebook status updates a day. Even if you have to Google it and look it up. You’re not alone. Answer questions. Don’t sell.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

It’s a given these days that before at least 50% of the first-time meetings you’re about to have you and the person you’re meeting will have Googled each other to learn a bit more about the person. This is a brand new tool to see how engaged your Facebook page is with your fans. My WebCareer. Postrank Analytics.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Gather links for their Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin profiles at a minimum. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is. Now take your refined list and do searches on your favorite social media networks.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

Google won’t love you any more. If your post shows up on a site that gets 2,500 visits a day and you only have 200, which site is Google going to use as the link to your all important post about Empire Avenue ? 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

MARCH 6, 2013

Users were asked to post images on Facebook and Instagram and tag them #CaptureaJag. Images were displayed on Jaguar USA’s Facebook page and voted on there as well as by a panel of judges. Even though they’re not official on Facebook we still use them there as well as Pinterest, Twitter Tumblr, Flickr and Google+.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. We were talking about how to build community on a Facebook page and whether or not that’s really even possible. We were talking about how to build community on a Facebook page and whether or not that’s really even possible.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Google+ is a great social network. Google+ is worth the effort. I like to say Google+ combines the best of Twitter and Facebook on one network. But nobody uses Google+. If I never share anything to the public and only share to circles then nobody knows I’m active on Google+. Here’s the thing.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

This post is meant to be a getting started guide for those of us who got an invite and are now wondering how to use Google+. If you’re looking for an overview of Google+ check out Part 1 of this post: Google+ and World Domination. Start with your Google Profile. Google+ Hacks and tips. Google+ Settings.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 6, 2011

Created your own “museum&# from your Facebook images and videos and the avatars of your friends? Sure enough, if you go back and log in again it will verify with Facebook yet again. Kelly Hodgkins Say it’s why you shouldn’t use Facebook. Have you been to the Museum of Me ? Christina Gagnier found it inspiring.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I went into my Google reader and deleted every blog that hadn’t posted within the last 30 days. The same goes for all those Facebook event invites and friend requests. The world will not end if you don’t have Facebook open on your desktop all day long. It took me about 15 minutes to unsubscribe from them all.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

Scan your receipts, paper files, notes or even a whiteboard then combine pages into a document, save it to Dropbox , Google Drive or Evernote or even sync it with iCloud. Of course there are the obvious apps like Linkedin , Facebook , Skype etc. Available for iPad, iPhone or Android. Scanner Pro. Sign a contract, scan it and send it.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Both apps allow some engagement with your Twitter following, and Meerkat also gives the option to connect to your Facebook account. Instead, check out this Google Doc via Ileane Smith. 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.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 16, 2010

Take a moment and go Google yourself. Listen to what other people in your niche are saying and support or respond to it on their blogs, Facebook pages, Linkedin groups, Twitter and forums. What are they going to find? What is your overall impression of that person? It might need a little fine-tuning. Share them and share links.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 7, 2013

The new Google Enhanced Adword Campaigns automatically go live on all accounts July 22nd, and this is going to be a very powerful ad platform in the right hands. Let us know how we can help you with your Adwords, Facebook or Twitter campaigns. If you need a little help with this, just let us know. Feel free to share this infographic.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 12, 2015

I did a search today on Google Trends comparing Periscope and Meerkat. Hearts are relative to “likes” on Facebook. For the moment at least, it looks like Periscope is getting more traction. What’s new. A lot has changed with Periscope since my last post on streaming video apps. That would be a cool feature though!

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

Shortly afterward Facebook launched their own app, Riff for mobile devices which allows you to create a video on your device and your Facebook friends can add their own clips to the video creating a collaborative story. If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. I’m easy to find on both. The latest.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

Shortly afterward Facebook launched their own app, Riff for mobile devices which allows you to create a video on your device and your Facebook friends can add their own clips to the video creating a collaborative story. If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. I’m easy to find on both. The latest.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 31, 2011

By doing this, Frank reached thousands of people through Google Plus , Twitter , Facebook and several blogs , possibly many more than the Occupy Wall St folks simply because of his own network combined with the powerful networks who were at Pivotcom. She blogged about it and then posted on the wall of the Chapstick Facebook page.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

You can have the biggest following on Twitter and Facebook and Google+ , the best videos on Youtube and a constant flow of repins on Pinterest and still not make a single sale. For example, I have one for a Google+ e-book. I know, social media is what I do, and I love it, but in the end it’s a tool.

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