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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

Silicon Valley Tech Women held a panel at the shiny new SalesForce offices in downtown San Francisco entitled Leveraging Social Networking to Advance Your Career. Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Most of the panel chunks up time throughout the day to manage their social networks. LaSandra Brill Sr.

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You are Your Friends

Janet Fouts

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. Tags: Social Media in Action.

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Marketers are freaking out about Facebook

Janet Fouts

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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7 steps to an effective social media plan

Janet Fouts

Creating a social media plan has to be very specific to the needs, resources and market of the business who needs it. Explore social networks. All of the networks have their own characteristics. Initially you’ll want to carefully craft the message people will hear when they first find you on a social network.

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Mindful Social Business

Janet Fouts

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. Corporate Social Media social business'

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Social Media Efficiency for Nonprofits

Janet Fouts

This is especially true for the small to mid-size nonprofit who may have a 1-2 person marketing team, some eager interns and volunteers but not quite enough direction to pull a comprehensive strategy together. Some of the tricks of the trade that help manage a social media engagement plan with a small team.

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Content Marketing and Social Business

Janet Fouts

That last one is a trick by the way, you need to know that content marketing is a long-term strategy. 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. Where do we get content?

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