Janet Fouts

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A Hard Social Media Lesson for Hoteliers

Janet Fouts

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. fine for each negative review” Needless to say this policy has gotten some press and tons of noise on social and traditional media alike.

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Corporate America steps up to deal with #COVID-19

Janet Fouts

Apple shut down their retail stores , offered expanded its sick leave policy to cover family issues, set up work from home guidelines. Nike Closed its stores in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand through to March 27 and instituted work from home and staggered work schedules and safety measures in the workplace.

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Twitter and DMCA violations

Janet Fouts

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. Mikko Hypponen is CRO and security firm F-Secure and was apparently testing out Twitter’s newly announced DMCA policy. . — Plagiarism Is Bad (@PlagiarismBad) July 25, 2015.

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Custom Short URLs for Google+ At Last!

Janet Fouts

Please note, in the Privacy and Policy doc Google reserves the right to remove the URL at any time and may at some point charge for this service. In the meantime you could use the Google URL shortener GPlus.to to create a shortcut like this. Still I’m thrilled to see this change! Googleplus Google Plus Google plus business pages'

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Google Plus and personal privacy

Janet Fouts

Andy Carvin was at the Edinburgh International TV Festival and had an opportunity to ask Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google how Google can justify their policy of real names only on the Google Plus service when using real identities could put people at risk.

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How can using social media as an employee help my company?

Janet Fouts

If your company has a social media policy, understand it before you start. Be careful of course about disclosing information that is not already public. If you’re working on a super secret project that you wouldn’t mention on TV don’t put it out on social media either.

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#TakeBackthePink – @Komenforthecure’s social media nightmare

Janet Fouts

Komen says it was because their policies changed and because Planned Parenthood is under investigation. Petitions started circulating from Moveon , the Breast Cancer Action Network , MomsRising and others to protest the change in policy. Rumors abound as to why they did it.Some say it was politically motivated.

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