Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

When you find yourself feeling isolated or overwhelmed, know you’re not alone and take comfort in the words of Mr. Rogers, ““ When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Now people are up in arms about the recent disclosure that organic reach for Facebook business pages is declining and businesses will need to pay in order to get their companies posts and information in user news-feeds. It’s not realistic to think that Facebook should give small business a break out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 20, 2013

Fortunately that first book had an overall focus, so it was OK to post breaking social media news, updates about new apps and platforms etc. Auto-posting news without your own comments is broadcasting (and nobody cares). How am I going to keep 5 Facebook pages populated and interesting? Frankly I can’t. Honestly I don’t want to.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Twitter is hiding tweets reported stolen. It quickly went viral on Twitter and was picked up by a slew of news agencies, including Time magazine and many others as a new revelation of Twitter policy. The tweet below was shared by user @PlagiarismBad. Plagiarism Is Bad (@PlagiarismBad) July 25, 2015.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Not only was this news to Prego, it was news to the entire industry. At the end of the process he discovered that rather than a shapely bell curve, he had several clusters of information showing that Americans liked their sauce in 3 main groups; plain, spicy and chunky. When Prego released a chunky sauce they took over the market.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are creating an editorial calendar with a plan to follow it in lock-step fashion you are going to miss a lot of opportunities for genuine engagement and exciting breaking news. We recommend only half of the content be planned in the calendar.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It shows respect for the person who dug up that bit of news, said something brilliant or is just plain spot on about something. Basically look to retweet breaking news. People are much more likely to retweet your news or call to action if you ask nicely, and not too often. How to get retweeted. Say please. Love to retweet?

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The news about Facebook lately has been pretty grim. Even if you have opted in for news from that page you won’t see organic or paid ads for them as often in your newsfeed. The Wall St. What if I LIKE watching Gary the tiger? Even brands with deep pockets are feeling the pinch. 5% per month.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

Find people who can teach you something or help you find relevant news and information should be the goal on any network. Some for news and research, others for team communication, professional development and keeping an eye on the competition. Jana uses it as her primary news source (as do I).

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2011

Stick to opinions, news, and posts around your areas of interest. Legal News feeds Follow these news feeds on Twitter for the latest news on various types of law. As with most social networks, the most important things you can do are listen first and be yourself. Join with your Linkedin login.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 12, 2020

It becomes so familiar that you look for more things to resent, in the news, in other people’s tastes and opinions. Because resentment is a low-energy emotion, it can sit there, festering and affecting your life in many ways for years. You start to see other examples of being under-valued and each time the resentment grows.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 11, 2017

Listen to “stations” like any other podcast, personalized news, science, and information channels. All in all, I’m really impressed with what they’ve done with the app, and I’m thinking it will be an excellent way for me to share quick tips for my readers, and, who knows, I may start a new podcast there too.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 16, 2014

Journalists and news organizations. I like to keep all my news folks together so when I want to see what’s going on in the world I can find it in one click by going to my list. There’s no better way to see what the competition is up to than to create a list of competitors and monitor their tweets. Your Tribe lists.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2012

No matter how great the event is, people just don’t want to see them all in their news feed if they’re not in them. Another feature I like is the ability to view all the images posted recently in my news feed. I have quite a few friends and things fly by in the news feed. Recent Feed.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 13, 2012

Pinning news. The ability to float a news story or milestone to the top of your page is big. These can be re-ordered to show what is really important to you. When you click on a tab you’ll have much more real estate to work with too, no more cramming content into a tiny window! The timeline.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 30, 2014

Did they consider the public reaction to this news? Response to the news about this project has been varied. If one assumes that the emotions of Facebook are roughly equivalent to that of the United States, 1 in 17 have serious mental disorders according to this NIH post. ” Oh, well, OK then (I’m being sarcastic again.).

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This content may be curated from relevant news stories, breakthroughs in the industry you are related to, regulatory issues or re-shares to support the people within your networks. Write this down and put it on your monitor. 75% of the content you share every day should be about your network and their interests, not about you.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

They likely did this because fake news and scammer sites were adding images and editing titles and descriptions to use as click bait to get you to click through to the story. I feel you. But your struggle may soon be over. Facebook stopped allowing users to customize these elements when you post on your page a while ago.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

He calls it “New School Marketing” Debra Askanase Is on top of what’s going on in the non profit sector and online community building. Stephanie Wanamaker Always has an interesting tidbit of news about films and music. Louis Gray I can’t say enough about Louis.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 13, 2018

” “Since there’s more public content than posts from your friends and family, the balance of what’s in News Feed has shifted away from the most important thing Facebook can do — help us connect with each other.”

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Even Facebook will tell you that only 16% of the users who opted in for news from your Facebook page ever even see it. Although Perez Hilton is listed as one of the top 5 users by SocialStatistics.com , he’s closely followed by the New York Public Library, Fox News, the Washington Post, and Jaguar USA.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The other big news is, my publisher at has asked me to write another “ Think Aha!” ” book on Google+ for business, so look for a new book with quick tips written in easy-to-digest tweets all about how to use Google+! I’ve embedded the course below and it’s all free, so have fun. Google+ for Business.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 5, 2012

Organic reach is the number of unique people, fans or non-fans, who saw any content about your Page in their News Feed, Ticker or on your Page. As a result, the sum of your organic, paid and viral reach might be larger than your total Page reach.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Then they create a new account with the original user name, sometimes keeping your picture and description, and post whatever fake news or spam they want to.When you try to recover your password for the account you find the email used is no longer the same, it belongs to the hacker.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 6, 2014

Let’s take a lesson from the Union Street Guest House , a hotel in Hudson, NY who recently made the news for their policy for wedding and event parties. Even if you aren’t using social media–other people are–and they talk. Oh how they do talk.

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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. The European Union has been thinking about this much longer, and a new regulation goes into effect soon that will impact how we all do business online.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

Be the first to share useful industry news. Share others content with links and comments on the value of what they’ve contributed. Be an information source about your area of expertise that people can turn to with questions. Share original content (no plagiarizing or regurgitating other people’s posts). Answer questions.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 17, 2011

The advancement of good listening tools allow a PR team to keep an ear to the ground for news about their clients and enable them to lend their voices to ongoing discussions, but it’s even better if you’re already in the conversation to start with. Bottom line?

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

A more thoughtful and educational experience than the quick jot on Facebook, a tweet or even a slightly longer response to news or commentary on Amplify. I’ve never been a daily blogger, but that doesn’t devalue blogging itself. I also take offense at the suggestion that the first bloggers were “hobbyists&#.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 21, 2014

BuzzSumo -Keyword, brand and news monitoring, locating influencers and interacting with them on Twitter right from the dashboard. Text messages and threads are searchable, and you can switch between teams easily from within the app. Hootsuite -Schedule posts and monitor multiple social networks from one dashboard.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 8, 2015

A news resource for your brand? Holding the username as brand protection? What do you intend this network to do for you? Gain brand recognition? Share information with your users? Customer service? Define yourself as a resource or expert? Professional development? Does the “voice” of this network suit your own?

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Seeing fake news compiled on top of it all. I am: Physically sick reading/hearing/watching the hate filled messages on social media. Sick of watching the media inflate it to a fever pitch for the sake of ratings. Disappointed that those who bear so much hatred in their hearts feel emboldened by the actions (or inaction) of our president.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 19, 2011

Social media done wrong is just as bad for your brand as traditional media gone wrong, except that the negative news flies faster in social than it it ever did before. . “But I’m busy&# you whimper… Tough. Get over it or don’t do it.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

website for curating posts in my areas of interest, but being able to scan titles and share just-out news with my social networks and my clients while I’m in line at the bank or waiting for a flight makes it just that much sweeter. But you probably already have those right? I already loved the Scoop.it

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Let these tools bring the news to you. Use their dashboard to schedule important posts so you don’t dump them on your network all at once, and use their analytics to decide when is a good time for you to participate in your social networks and which posts are he most effective and at what times people are responding to you.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 26, 2010

I told her how I found an ATM in the sprawling Miami airport with Gate Guru , an iPhone app she’d told me about. We talked about Shirley Sherrod and the video. Of course we’d seen it on YouTube. We lasted 15 minutes.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Interestingly, especially in light of all the news about Facebook changing it’s algorithms, they gained a ton of fans, but people talking about this page actually declined. There were other hashtags used and I didn’t run a report on Redbull mentions).

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