Janet Fouts

AUGUST 29, 2011

I get a ton of requests for a “social media plan&# and then once I start to talk to the client it turns out what they really want is a magic black box from which they can pull a big red button. When they push the button they will have instant social media success. I’m a social media coach not a magician.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Is social media really good for my business or is it just a time waster?? Social media is what you make of it. If you really want to use social media for your business then you need to stay focused on what your goals are. Can social media be a black hole for your energy? It’s both.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Here are a few tips to make the time you spend working on social media marketing tasks, and your entire day, more useful to everyone. As a bonus, you’ll be more focused and engaged with the conversations you have on social networks, increasing your effectiveness. Doesn’t your job? Meditate, take a walk.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They dive into some of the tough questions around social media like&# Who owns this stuff?&# and the need to establish social media guidelines and roles for the players so it’s easier to get everybody on board and knowing what they should be doing. Freaking brilliant! I’m stealing the idea for my next book.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 11, 2020

I’ve worked in startups, marketing, social media and teaching mindfulness, emotional intelligence and positive psychology. All meetings will take place on Zoom by phone or video, whatever works for you. Social media marketing and business strategizing. I’ve been a business coach for more than 20 years.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Set a timer for watching those cat videos on Instagram! Although movies like The Social Dilemma point to clear problems with the ways in which Internet apps are being developed, these leave out important information that can help you better improve your digital well-being. And the research doesn’t quite support this assumption.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Content calendars can be an excellent tool to plot out your social outreach strategy for creating and sharing content over time. The calendar may include links to existing resources like e-books and white-papers, videos and other downloads. Content calendars aren’t a shortcut to social media engagement.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 11, 2017

Anchor converts recorded audio into video clips that play on all of the major social media platforms, including built in, editable captioning with automatic speech to text. Here’s a link to the show , and below is an example of the video Anchor creates from your audio file. Add sound bites from external recordings.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 21, 2014

There’s a lot of talk right now about the need to disconnect from technology and how social media overload is making everyone crazy. I work remotely, so I video chat with clients and co-workers and move seamlessly (mostly) around the world from wherever I happen to be. I totally get that. What are your key apps?

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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. Here’s a welcome video from Rik created in Second Life! Video for Nonprofits – Evonne Heyning ( TechSoup.org ). June 28 – 1 pm PT.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2013

Here’s a video overview of the Twubs interface. read this: “ How to Participate in a Tweet Chat “ Social Media Networks Twitter strategy Video OneQube Twitter Twitter chat Twubs' Search the directory for hashtags in categories you’re interested in and see past and live discussions.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Forms of content (video or audio takes longer than text). 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.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 13, 2014

Here’s LinkedIn’s video about this new feature. Corporate Social Media social business Social Media in Action Social Media Networks Linkedin Social Networking social sales' LinkedIn is making great strides at being so much more than a place to dump your resume.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 29, 2013

While I had only added a few presentations on social media Linkedin imported them all. To add media (if your profile has been updated) start editing your profile. If you can add media there you’ll also see a little video screen. Mine updated yesterday with some unexpected (mostly positive) results.

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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? You may want to start by searching only blogs, or only Twitter or videos for example. Do they get comments and do people share their content through social media?

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Janet Fouts

JULY 9, 2010

Here’s a video I put together to show you how it works on a post and what I do when I use it in Wordpress. You can also use Scribe with other types of sites and here are videos for Scribe for Joomla , and Scribe for Drupal too. Analyze it again until you gt the results you’re looking for.

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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. Learn more about QR Codes and how they work at the Social Media Coaching Center. Watch this video or visit their website ( City Harvest.org )and see how you can help.

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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. I spent last weekend up to my ears in public radio, and happily so.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The online social media magazine Social Media Examiner didn’t waste any time creating a page, and neither did most of the regular users of Google Plus. Here’s a quick video showing one option for a shortcut URL to your Google business page. How could we resist?

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Here’s a quick video to show you how it works. A few people may go look to see what you’re all about and it’ it’s all photos of cats and videos about Lady Gaga it’s probably not going to help your business so much. Social media is all about reciprocity and never more so than here.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the bottom right corner of my blog and Tatu Digital Media’s site as well is a little popup window allowing you to schedule time with me by phone, through their proprietary video conferencing or face to face with a couple of clicks. Music to any coach’s ear right?

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

Sprout Social. If you use Sprout Social to manage your social media accounts you’ll love this app. Manage your social media team workflow, monitor brand buzz and share on the fly to keep your business social. Available for iPhone, iPad, or Android. Tweetbot. Sorry, this one is iPhone only.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Images and video are shown live in the page without opening another window, and they teamed up with the major video and photo suppliers to integrate them into the page. Here’s the video on the new Twitter. Tags: Social Media in Action Twitter twitter announcement. The new Twitter was built on their own API.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 8, 2015

Do you communicate best through video, short messages with links, long blog posts, images, or in-depth conversations with your community? Hopefully you set up a list of intentions, (or KPIs) for your social media outreach before you started signing up for networks. Corporate Social Media Marketing mindfulsocial'

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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. Social media is social and people appreciate a congenial answer that solves their problem. Often it comes from from people with hands on experience. Downside?

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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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Janet Fouts

JUNE 23, 2010

Watch the video below and then go visit AbundantWater.org to see how you can help. Tags: Social Media in Action Abundant Water. Cholera, typhoid fever, amebic and bacillary dysentery, diarrhea, hepatitis A and E are all common illnesses in Laos contracted from drinking unclean water. YOU can help change that.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 20, 2012

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. Maybe it’s a mention of a great weekend away on a blog, photos on Facebook, Twitter or Flickr, a video on youtube of you being silly. Apparently this is all too common.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When I first heard about App.net my first reaction was probably very much like yours, “I don’t need another social media network!” Founder Dalton Caldwell created this new network–known to fans as ADN– a mere 12 weeks ago as an ad-free, real-time social network. Apps you already use.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2013

In the meantime I did a short video on Klout’s analytics. There’s a tip in the video to correct that. Does it make the ranking site more relevant? I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. Has your score been impacted? Tell me how, and if you think it matters. Think your stats on Klout are incorrect?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2012

Part of what I do as a social media coach is help businesses large and small manage their facebook pages.Our social media management team is frequently asked to go to a client’s event and help live-tweet, take photos or video and post them live during the event to share with their fans.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Here’s a video from Google on what these new communities are all about: What Do Google+ Communities Offer My Business? Document sharing, Hangouts , easy addition of video and photos, and connecting with other people. Conversations tend to be casual often focus on the sharing of jokes and gossip, movies and social gaming.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I’m assuming you’ve seen the video by now, but if not here’s a link and some info on creating Facebook groups. Tags: Social Media in Action Facebook Facebook Groups. If you’ve decided to create one of the new Facebook groups and add your friends here are some tips to make it worthwhile for everyone.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Especially PR and marketing professionals who are watching social media speed up the reaction time of their customers to light speed. He opened his talk with the video of the arrests followed by the video of what was going on inside which prompted the staff to call 911. How can we keep up? The lesson?

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

They’re more likely to spend hours wandering the fan pages looking for something fun to do like games, quizzes, sharing video links and finding out about their friend’s appendectomy. Maybe it’s a bit naive or nostalgic to think business must develop true community to succeed with social media as a marketing tool.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 11, 2016

YouTube is rolling out a messenger like feature called Native Sharing' Share videos and chat with your friends without leaving the mobile app.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 24, 2013

Listen to customer service and find out what the sore spots are for the customer, then speak to those issues in blogs, videos, FAQ’s they can use as a resource. Do video instead. Solve their problems in public so others can learn from them. find out who your heroes are and show them off. Email Marketing.

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