Janet Fouts

MAY 17, 2011

Public Relations is a changing field and it can be a challenge to manage and control corporate messaging in these times of lightning fast responses and broad data dissemination through social media networks. You can’t control social media so you’d best learn to understand how to work with it instead of against it.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The number one question I get about social media is: “How can I do all this social media stuff and still get my work done?&#. I mean, OK, I confess I spend all day attached to social media like an IV but that’s my job. You need a social media efficiency strategy.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

If you read my blog very often you know that I love to teach people how to get the most out of social media. Hello, I’m a social media coach…) Whether it’s in groups, bootcamps,webinars, one-on-one or right here on my blog, this is my passion. Think of it as a mini social media coaching session.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

One of the questions people ask in our initial social media strategy sessions is “How will I know if I’m doing it right?&# Rather than go into yet another social media metrics debate let’s pretend for the sake of argument that you’ve already set up one or two social listening tools.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

If any part of your job relates to social engagement you’d best have a good look at your numbers on some of the ranking sites and see how you’re doing before you stick your foot in your mouth and say you’re fantastic at creating an online presence. Momentus Media Community Health Score.

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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 23, 2011

That makes the $Billion question: “How do I build a following to drive traffic to my…blog, web site, Facebook page, Twitter page, etc, etc, etc.&#. For that you need a network of connections, preferably with connections of their own! Fortunately the answers are the same no matter what network you’re trying to grow.

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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. Sentiment analysis may add some context, but in general, we are guessing when we build predictive models based on social media data sets. Do we hate winning? Nah, we’re being facetious.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 6, 2017

Most students have a social media presence of some sort, but thinking about a professional brand hasn’t been high on their priority list. Tips to create and monitor your brand on social media. Share links to other sites they may not know, quote a recent study or a paper you’re writing. Practice gratitude.

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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. Any website, including social media sites that gather data from EU citizens, must comply with these rules. If you have a WordPress site it’s super-easy to add a compliance popup.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 28, 2013

The thing is, many websites are still not friendly to “pinning” Sites that are framed, dynamic image generation, Flash slideshows, all hinder the ease in which people can pin your images and drive traffic to your website. Many sites don’t take advantage of ALT tags on their images. Blocking Pinterest from your site.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Lots of people will tell you ”Social Media Influencers” are the key to social media marketing but what does that really mean? Visit a search site like SocialMention.com and enter your key topics, one at a time. Do they get comments and do people share their content through social media?

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the beauties of social media is the opportunity to ask your network and extended networks a question and get an answer quickly. Crowd-based information sites have been around for a long time. It’s interesting to see the traffic for all three sites for the last year. Are you using one or all of these sites?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Social media managers are then charged with locating supporting content and resources to support the editorial calendar, locate influencers who are interested in these topics and begin to engage them on the appropriate social media sites. social business Social Media Tips and Tricks'

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 20, 2012

When she opened the site and saw that his profile was private, she asked him for his password. Simply doing a search for a social media mention or profile isn’t enough, some companies want to look into your personal posts as well. You can even sign up for regular monitoring from sites like Reputation.com.

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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. Go ahead, scan the code. Just hold your phone up to the screen and scan it.

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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). Social Media in Action' What’s the big deal?

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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. My biggest problem is not flooding all my social media channels with videos! Social Media Networks Video curation featured video YouTube'

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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. Tags: Social Media Networks Discounts Earlybird Groupon Twitter.

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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

JUNE 8, 2011

You see, lots of bloggers have their blog posts syndicated on other sites that aggregate content, and sometimes we write posts specific to a site just to get our names in front of more readers who frequent that particular web site. It’s like guest blogging, but more focused. Really it boils down to three things.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Click farms are basically sites where people are paid to click the “like” button on a post or page. Use Facebook as just another social media network in your toolbox but not as the be-all end-all of your marketing campaign. Facebook Social Media Networks Facebook ads Facebook likes' On the surface, yes.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 12, 2010

Social media has had such a huge impact on small businesses, both to reach out to a global audience and to their own backyard as well. That’s why I suggested this panel for next year’s SXSW , and I asked some amazing local business and social media folks to join me. There are some fantastic panels proposed.

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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. You’ll still be able to add content through their new rich media feature. While I had only added a few presentations on social media Linkedin imported them all.

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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. Tags: Social Media in Action blogging. It worked too. It was awesome. it still is.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media is all about reciprocity and never more so than here. The initial screens are all about who is most popular and it’s the usual suspects found on most of the social media networks. On your web site. Go give them some love by sharing their relevant content too. CircleCount.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Valerie coaches some of the very same techniques that I do for social media. Learn more on the web site or Facebook page. Check out the directory on their web site. Tags: Corporate Social Media PRPD Public Radio. Boy, that’s something all of us presenters could use. Start with, your best material.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I was invited to moderate a panel on social media strategy at the Public Radio Directors Association ( PRPD ) conference in Denver. The panel was about creating a social media strategy. KUT uses a lot of different social media tools. You can listen live to the station in their web site too of course.

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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. Tags: Social Media in Action Twitter. Browse Twitter Tales and see if it strikes a chord for you. Who knows, maybe your story could be up next! Just email tales@twitter.com and tell your story.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

I can sketch out a design for a client on my iPad with Penultimate, save it to a folder in Evernote and share it with my designers instantly, clips web pages, take photos or scan documents on site and add it to the folder and have it all be easily accessible to whoever needs it. Sprout Social. Available for iPhone, iPad, or Android.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 14, 2011

Whether you work with a grass roots organization or a humongous nonproft you know that social media can be an effective way to make your message more visible out there in the world. Do you use video as part of the social media outreach for your nonprofit? Twitter Efficiency – Janet Fouts ( Social Media Coach ).

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s a post on the Social Media Coaching Center with more on that one too. It may be that Facebook is finally listening to users and giving them access to the information they need to really use the site effectively. Tags: Social Media Tips and Tricks. Learn more on the Facebook Developer Blog.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

According to Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang , social CRM will give businesses a way to really focus on listening to what their customers want and still have time to do business. “Jeremiah Owyang’s vision of Social CRM where products that we want will find us, will be realized. Steve Farnsworth, Jolt Social Media.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 5, 2010

Wordpress can enable you to create an online presence for a fraction of what a traditional web site costs and have an easy to use content management system (CMS) to boot. and it just makes sense to create a series of tutorials to share with our clients and the members of the Social Media Coaching Center.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2010

You can’t mention activism and social media without James Karl Buck coming up. His tweet activated his social network and word spread quickly. This is one example of social media being used to secure the privacy of an individual. box and use it for all of your online accounts (not just social media).

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