Janet Fouts

JANUARY 13, 2018

Engagement on brand Facebook pages has been in the tank for a long time now, Larry Kim recently wrote a post showing a significant drop in engagement with content on the site down by more than 20% in 2017. It’s what most of these sites were originally designed for. .” This has a whole lot of marketers freaking out.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 24, 2017

Understanding how emotion comes into play in buying decisions can be extremely useful when listening on social media sites. On social media sites we can eavesdrop on the conversations and understand what the needs really are and the emotions behind them.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 13, 2011

In February Google rolled out an update to their algorithms likely directed at sites that duplicate content for article marketing as well as those that “spin&# articles (replacing phrases and words so they aren’t exact duplicates and then posting to article hosting sites). So what’s a blogger to do?

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

If you need to know about how long an open bottle of wine will last , a trick to make your web site load faster, which video camera to buy or how working remotely differs from in an office, there’s somebody out there who knows and is happy to help. Crowd-based information sites have been around for a long time. courtesy Compete).

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Janet Fouts

MAY 29, 2011

Basically Empire Avenue is a community (and I use that term loosely here) where members buy and sell virtual shares in each other in the hopes of getting rich in currency of the site, called “eaves&#. If you want to increase your value you make your investors happy, interact a lot on your social networks and on the site and voila!

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Scan the code with your cell phone and you can view the City Harvest web site, videos or donate directly through your phone to City Harvest. QR codes can contain links to images, web sites, and a host of other cool things for users to find when they scan them. They can scan the code and donate on the spot.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 31, 2011

You visit a site and you have the option to share it on Facebook and/or Twitter from the bottom of the page. I mean, who doesn’t have a share button on their web site or in their browser somewhere already? Here’s where you can get it and instructions to include it on your site or blog as well– One True Fan.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 17, 2012

Especially not if it gives companies who get your site taken down because of supposed IP violations without due process and even if you can later get it re-instated you have no recourse. Here’s the anti-SOPA protest site. Here’s the full text of the SOPA bill on the Wall St Journal site.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The site makes it easy for you to scan quickly for the headlines you want to read further and then go read it on the blogger’s site. Take a look at the site and see what you think, or use the search box in the bottom right sidebar on this blog to search the Social Media Informer. Upcoming conferences ?

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Johnathan created a web page on his site and uploaded a screen shot of his Starbucks Card. I was going to post the screen grab of his card here, but I figured it would get me in some kinda hot water (yes, pun) so you’ll have to go to his site to try it out. Here’s the story. I did use the card and it worked flawlessly.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 3, 2011

Browse a list of regularly scheduled Twitter chats here on Google Docs , and you can find hashtags that interest you on a site like Hashtag.it If you try to follow the chat from your own timeline on the Twitter web site you can, but if it’s a big chat you can quickly lose the thread of the conversation. or Hashtags.org.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 6, 2017

Share links to other sites they may not know, quote a recent study or a paper you’re writing. Use sites like Buzzsumo , Mention.com , Brandwatch , and of course, Google to find out what is out there for you to talk about. Add insightful comments and engage when possible. Look for value you can add to the discussion.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Don’t use the same password on all of the sites you access. Twitter calls it “ Login Verification “ Be sure you are on Twitter.com and not a spoof site. Go through the apps you are giving access to for your Twitter account and revoke access for all but the bare minimum. Shake it up a little.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 13, 2011

These social media sites have as many as 380 million and 120 million customers respectively. Whilst the site may not be more popular than LinkedIn, it does have around 10 million users, which illustrates how it’s essential for business networking in Europe. Qzone, Renren, Mixi and Orkut.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 8, 2010

The most popular of these sites seems to be Groupon , and I recommend it to my clients for their small businesses. Hey, if I’m the demographic they’re looking for then they should be using Groupon or one of the other discount sites too. In fact, Groupon raised over $175 million in funding. They’re not alone of course.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Some of these sites allow you to pay a small amount to be featured on the site so people can find you and follow you on their own. If you do decide to get featured on a Twitter listing site, don’t feel like you have to follow back all your new followers.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

So we moved some client sites to Feedblitz , others decided to use WordPress’s free built in RSS feed tool. Now, this blog is syndicated on several sites and I send the RSS feed to Triberr and quite a few other places and they seemed to be getting the feed, so what gives? Why not just use the built in RSS feed on my site?

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I was among the first bloggers and we used it as a storytelling medium to encourage discussion on our web site. Those early blog posts created flurries of discussion and buried the forums on the site with hot debate. It worked too. It was awesome. Blogging was about community, communication and storytelling. it still is.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The first 25 people who respond through the form below will get 100% access to our online training site for social media for a year. In return I’ll be asking for feedback on the site’s design and content and a short 30 minute phone call in which you can ask me anything you want about social media and how to use it.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Bring your social sites up to date with a quick review to be sure of a Happy New Year!

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2013

Does it make the ranking site more relevant? Even though Bing now offers Bing rewards , I still prefer Google. But this post isn’t about Bing. It’s about Klout’s new additions. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. In the meantime I did a short video on Klout’s analytics. Has your score been impacted?

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 10, 2010

Godaddy , Network Solutions , and most recently Media Temple hosted sites were targeted for the attacks. It inserted a Javascript that re-directed my site to a spam site and then spread PHP files through the site like fwrite.php, fclose.php, eregi.php and modified several including index.php.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 1, 2011

On the other hand FBML does a few things that we can’t do yet with iframed content on a web site. Sure, you can use the social plugins and some code to do a lot of it, but it’s not all there yet. Check it out.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

On your web site. Make it easy for the fans you’ve already got on your web site or blog to share your posts directly to Google+. Add a +1 button to your web site to make it easy for people to share your content right to Google+. This can work if done consistently and not so often as to drive people crazy.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Visit a search site like SocialMention.com and enter your key topics, one at a time. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is. Refine this as finely as possible so you don’t have to filter though too many false leads in broad categories.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 6, 2011

It seems that Google is taking on the Facebook like, and +1 buttons will start showing up on web sites so you can like a web site and have it show up in your like stream too. Learn more about managing your social connections and view your existing connections in Google’s help section.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Understanding how emotion comes into play in buying decisions can be extremely useful when listening on social media sites. They could reason, based on the data, but lacked the “feeling” about the data necessary to come to a decision.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

The user interface is getting better but it’s still painful to get in and out unlike sites like Twitter and Facebook which are very manageable through 3rd party apps. While there is much focus on which social networking site will ultimately reign supreme, it is, to a large extent, a pointless conversation. AlmostSavvy.com.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 9, 2010

Even though I optimize sites for search engines as part of my daily duties, it can be tedious and there is always more to learn. You can also use Scribe with other types of sites and here are videos for Scribe for Joomla , and Scribe for Drupal too. So how do you learn SEO techniques and see how it relates to your own content online?

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 29, 2013

Now some of those applications are being replaced and the site is slowly moving accounts to the new system. Long time power users of Linkedin have been using Linkedin Applications to enhance their profiles with deeper information and sharing opportunities. You’ll still be able to add content through their new rich media feature.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Some important changes are taking place on Facebook around the way the site measures how popular and therefore worthy of being seen by your fans your posts are. We’ve been saying for years that the quality of the content your produce is more important than quantity, and it seems Facebook agrees.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 8, 2013

When it was passed in the mid 1980′s it was intended to protect us from fraud by making it illegal to use someone else’s password for a social media site, a website or even their computer (even at their request). The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was created with good intentions. What’s the big deal?

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Learn more on the web site or Facebook page. Check out the directory on their web site. For the last 5 years he’s been pulling together an eclectic mix of music from Folk and Native American to Electronica, Dub and Country and he puts together about 5 hours of daily programming for the show, totaling over 9,000 hours of music.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 6, 2010

The site which recently launched entices a user to enter their name and view their social media influence. Then it encourages a user to try to get their network to respond to a comment or post about the site to show how much influence that user has. So what went wrong with the “Influence Project&# ?

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 17, 2010

It may sound mundane but I think it’s a good example of how a site like Twitter impacts everyday lives in unexpected ways. Natasha uses Twitter as a place of expression and Since I’m a big fan of The Blogess on her blog and on Twitter and her blog, I was tickled to see the first humor post is about her.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 26, 2014

Sure, you can search popular video sites like Vimeo and YouTube , but it can take a while to filter through all the videos available to find the good stuff. We all love videos and sharing content that we find which resonates with us right? But it’s getting harder and harder to find videos that really speak to us.

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