Janet Fouts

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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

Silicon Valley Tech Women held a panel at the shiny new SalesForce offices in downtown San Francisco entitled Leveraging Social Networking to Advance Your Career. Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Most of the panel chunks up time throughout the day to manage their social networks. LaSandra Brill Sr.

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

Think of your online conversations as an aggregate whole and not just one network at a time. Unfortunately you don’t always control what’s online about you so I’m a big advocate of setting up alerts in Google and Social Mention among others to get a heads up when someone posts something about you online.

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Making Google+ Worth Your Time

Janet Fouts

This morning I had a conversation with a friend about Google+ and it’s a conversation I used to have about Twitter. It all started with the announcement that the NFL is adding Google+ Hangouts to the league’s fantasy football pages to enable a video chat feature right on the pages.

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Google+ and World Domination

Janet Fouts

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. Which of course means you’ve got to have a Google profile. So why should we think this effort will be a success?

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Google+ and Lessons Learned

Janet Fouts

I saw a message on Google+ yesterday from the-ever on top of the newest app-Louis Gray that made me cringe. Basically it allows you to invite your entire Facebook friends list to Google+. I don’t want all my connections on Google+ yet, maybe ever. Here’s what I love about Google+.

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5 Top Social Media Professionals on Google+

Janet Fouts

There’s been a lot of noise about Google+. First it was the meteoric rise of the new platform and social media types rushed to learn it and get those tips and tricks posts out. Personally I’ve got a love/hate relationship with Google+. Here’s what they said: Google+. How cool is that? OptimizeBook.com.

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Are Google+ Business Pages Replacing Facebook Pages?

Janet Fouts

I speak a lot about Google+ as a tool for business. In fact I’ve just written a book called “ Google+ for Business Tweet ” and I’m presenting a second Focus.com Roundtable in February. “Find me on Google+ at Google.com/SocialMediaCoach ” would be one thing. And there you’d be mistaken.

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