Janet Fouts

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Hashtags, the Good the Bad, the Oh So Ugly

Janet Fouts

It can’t be over-stated how important it is to research a hashtag before you use it and to give a little thought to what people may do with it once you unleash it on the world. I stuck to Twitter posts simply because they’re easier to embed, but most or all of these hashtags appear across social platforms. clitfest [link].

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How to Participate in a Tweet Chat

Janet Fouts

Twitter chats, sometimes known as a Twitter party or a tweet chat, happen when a group of people all tweet about the same topic using a specific tag (#) called a hashtag that allows it to be followed on Twitter. You can simply click on the hashtag on a tweet to see all of the recent tweets around that Hashtag. or Hashtags.org.

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Video Curation, It’s All About the N3TWORK

Janet Fouts

N3TWORK is billed as “The first personal TV network” Videos are categorized by hashtags and you have the ability to create your own channel and then curate content to populate that channel by either searching for and linking to your favorites or letting N3TWORK feed you videos it thinks you’ll like based on your interests.

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The Not-So Secret Guide to Twitter Lists

Janet Fouts

These may be potential customers or competitors I want to keep an eye on, or hashtags I want to follow but not make a big deal on my profile about. Hashtag lists. When I go to a conference I use the hashtags relevant to that discussion. Hashtag lists. Below are some common types of Twitter lists.

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Grow Your Twitter Following With Chats

Janet Fouts

Even if you miss the chat itself, you can learn a lot by clicking on the hashtag and reading past posts to get a feel for who is driving the conversation and people you’d like to engage. Want to know who is using the hashtag? You can go to Hashtweeps and find out who is using that Hashtag the most and learn more about them.

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Two Tools to Manage Twitter Chats With Ease

Janet Fouts

As you can see from the screen shot, Smart Stream allows you to follow a hashtag in real-time, see who else is participating, Tweet with the tag already added, enter Twitter user names to feature them within the chat so anyone who is participating through SmartStream will see that user’s tweets highlighted.

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Putting Instagram events to work for your business

Janet Fouts

They set up the hashtag #Comodomenu , put it on the bottom of the menu in the restaurant and online, and asked guests to both share their photos and tag them as well as browse the tag on Instagram to see what dishes were most popular. Make it easy for people to understand what they need to do, what the hashtag is and why they should care.

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