Janet Fouts

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Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

Janet Fouts

Facebook chooses top stories for you.Top stories are based on how active people are on the story (remember the importance of edge rank!). If you really HATE THE TICKER here’s how to get rid of it. All these new features being rolled out before f8 seem to be pretty intuitive, but its a li’l much all at once! The Ticker.

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What is your Reach on Facebook? (Any why you shouldn’t care)

Janet Fouts

Unless you’re a big brand I’m guessing you can’t afford to pay to have this much showing, so you’d better think about how to really engage people. I’ll be writing a post about how to get real engagement from your fan base later this week, so stay tuned for that, but really, forget about reach. Bottom line?

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Enriching Conferences With Real Interaction

Janet Fouts

Letting participants get up close and personal with speakers and practitioners helps drive home concepts gained in the presentations and plan for how to put them to use.

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Hating on Social Media – #NOTOK

Janet Fouts

“ Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Disappointed that those who bear so much hatred in their hearts feel emboldened by the actions (or inaction) of our president. ” –Nelson Mandela.

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Could a lot of fans hurt your Facebook page?

Janet Fouts

Facebook also looks to see how many fans you have and how many are interacting to come up with a ratio of interaction. Learn more about using Facebook, my best tips and tricks and how to build your own Facebook pages for your business for one low annual fee. Are friends of the fan interacting with it? Low ranking? What to do?

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Google+ Tips and Tricks

Janet Fouts

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+. Still, from a position of letting people know how to find you it’s useful. If you’re looking for an overview of Google+ check out Part 1 of this post: Google+ and World Domination.

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What was the most important thing you learned about social media this year?

Janet Fouts

Perhaps it’s the diversity of how people use it. Two that were shared the most – one I wrote on 7" Tips for How Not to Eat Her Cookie" and "How to Negotiate Successful Threesomes.") Sarah Durham. The most important thing I learned about social media this year? Some topics REALLY resonate.