Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

What’s that got to do with social networks? We often look at social networks with blinders on. We like one network more than the others because we’ve gotten good responses there or we are more comfortable in that user interface. See, here’s the thing.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

That’s not how a social network works though. On these kinds of networks you have to find people who are engaging and interesting as sources of conversation and listen, then talk back to them. So here’s how to do that for Google+. Share good stuff and more people interested in that topic will follow you.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 13, 2014

Corporate Social Media social business Social Media in Action Social Media Networks Linkedin Social Networking social sales' Here’s LinkedIn’s video about this new feature. Check it out.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Hootsuite -Schedule posts and monitor multiple social networks from one dashboard. Scoop.it -Quickly browse the most recent blog posts on the information that’s important to me and share it to social networks over time through Buffer. Configure the best times for each network and trust Buffer to do the rest.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Well, at least in social media circles anyway. Say you send me a friend request on a social network. Now granted, sometimes this is a two second decision, but taking the time makes all the difference in the quality of the conversations we have in our social networks. Here’s what I mean by that.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 13, 2011

Most businesses are now well aware of the benefits that using social media can bring, such as driving sales, getting customer feedback, building brand awareness and more. However, the majority are still only focusing on major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

If you’re as into social media networks as I am you’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the launch of Google+ , a shiny new social network from Google. As Michael Martine wrote on his blog,&# Another Social Network to Suck Away My Time?

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The best part about the Influencer blogs is the ability to share their insight with your social networks and the conversations generated on LinkedIn and other platforms. Raising the level of conversation world-wide is a powerfiul way for someone to become a true social influencer and share their knowledge.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

So why did so many users take a self-enforced tile out on the dominant social network in the country? Only 8% of those who don’t use Facebook now are even interested in using the site in the future. 21% said they just didn’t have time. 20% said they got bored or there was no compelling content.

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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). What’s the big deal?

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 13, 2018

Brands are deciding if they are going to commit more ad $$ to Facebook or if they should move to other networks. The concept of a social network that is devoted to it’s users actually having conversations is appealing. (Twitter shares, by the way, jumped almost 5% on the announcement. What does it mean?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 6, 2013

The popularity of Instagram is clear, and if you are inclined to snap photos and share them with your friends and customers on social networks you can make your business more social and build a powerful sharing community on Instagram quickly. Measure the other networks too. Why does Instagram work so well?

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Janet Fouts

MAY 5, 2014

When was the last time you saw a post from a brand on a social network and thought to yourself “Wow, they really get me!” ” Yeah, that doesn’t happen to me much either. More often than not brands post about their product, or maybe–just to be different–share a user comment about how great their product is.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It also has an option to auto-post to social networks with a notice you are starting or just completed meditation. The idea of meditating together with 10,000 people around the world is powerful, and I’ve struck up several conversations around these notifications on Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 18, 2014

He says the more technology we have, the more we interact on social networks, get emails and text messages, the more we need to slow down. So much of what we see businesses doing on social media these days is about building fans, follows, connections and leads. I love this talk from Loic Le Meur at Wisdom 2.0.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 26, 2014

Other users can subscribe to your channel, follow hashtags and re-share videos through the app or the major social networks. You can then easily save them to your own channel or share them with friends. Got an Apple computer or TV? This is where it gets really cool.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 8, 2012

Some of the tricks of the trade that help manage a social media engagement plan with a small team. How to pull together an editorial calendar, a social media schedule and decide what social networks are the best use of your bandwidth. How to set up listening tools to do a lot of the work for you.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 29, 2011

Explore social networks. All of the networks have their own characteristics. Your plan should include what networks you’re going to start with, who is going to do most of the work, how often and on what subjects. Then share something your network will find useful.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

Ask questions and have actual one on one conversations on social networks. Be the first to share useful industry news. Share original content (no plagiarizing or regurgitating other people’s posts). Answer questions. Even if you have to Google it and look it up. All work and no play is booooring. Go ahead, post about bacon.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 6, 2017

Find thought leaders on social networks and follow their posts. Now write down what you WANT it to look like. Create a list of topics you can talk about intelligently and create a brand persona you feel fits you professionally and personally. Association is a powerful thing. So is an intelligent conversation.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 16, 2014

Equally, if you expect it to stand alone without the support of the people in your social networks you may as well rent a billboard in the desert. If you create scads of content and expect people to flock to your brand out of nowhere you’re nuts. Where do we get content? You write about the passion that makes your company great.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 17, 2011

I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing PR people, and my latest book, #Socialmedia PR tweet is a way to answer some of the questions I get regularly from public relations pros through my social networks and in my coaching practice. The book is written in tweet form, 140 bite-sized ideas for social media engagement.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 8, 2015

Does the “voice” of this network suit your own? Every social network has a specific voice or way of conversing with others. If your voice doesn’t align with that of the network you’ll stand out like a sore thumb and it feels in-authentic. Customer service? Define yourself as a resource or expert?

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Do you have the ability to reach out to bloggers and influencers who are active and popular on social networks and engage with them to help get the word out about your products? We respond so much better to a person than a nameless marketing team. Be personal in your approach and create affinity with your customer.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 16, 2011

It’s a common discussion with people who’ve been on social networks for a long time. Facebook shut the application down immediately, and I’m thinking that’s not exactly a bad thing. I don’t want all my connections on Google+ yet, maybe ever.

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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

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. Set up good social listening tools.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 26, 2010

How could we possible avoid talking about social media? We’d spend the next hour or two with our phones turned off, and every time a social network or an iPhone app was mentioned the offender took a shot of Tequila (I don’t recommend this). So we decided on a little experiment.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Add to that email subscriptions with custom templates, statistics and tracking, importing of contacts from Outlook, Google contacts or a CSV, auto publishing to social networks and sharing buttons within the feed and it’s pretty easy to figure out. Reliable delivery is the most important, closely followed by support.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 24, 2011

It really hits home in times like this how deeply engrained social networks are in our everyday lives. The words are coming straight from my heart, but I will anonymise many names out of respect for my friends.". And then tells us in great detail what it was like on the island during the attack.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 30, 2014

A research paper released at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Facebook’s data scientists tells us they have been manipulating user’s newsfeeds to see if negative or positive emotions are as contagious on social networks as they are in real life.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

We tend to hangout with the people we know, but on this platform people interested in the same thing you are freely drop into discussions and the follow you there or on your other social networks. Bottom line.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 8, 2011

If all you hear about are their scores and their number of followers on 100 social networks, beware. In my opinion it’s the job of a good coach to teach and then watch their student excel on their own. Getting good scores may be all they’re good at. I know there are lots of people out there who disagree with me on this.

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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. There’s an App for that.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 19, 2012

So you might think my position would be that Google+ is the be-all end-all social media network for business and people should be pitching their blogs and Facebook pages out the window in favor of Google+. And there you’d be mistaken. Here’s the thing.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 29, 2011

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! I thought up quite a few really great titles for this post for the sheer fun of gaming the game for some SEO love, and then I deleted ‘em. This is me resisting. As a spam engine Empire Avenue excels.

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