Janet Fouts

AUGUST 17, 2012

When an application like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or a mobile Twitter app like Tweetbot checks your account on Twitter, it’s what is called an “API Call” This does NOT include the number of messages you send through these tools, only the number of times the tool hits the Twitter server to check for more.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Get some good tools. Hootsuite allows you to manage your social media profiles and get back some good data to boot. Set up good social listening tools. Let these tools bring the news to you. Get rid of the ones that don’t or re-assess why it’s not working.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 8, 2012

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. Where to get help creating content and what you can actually automate without risking your relationships.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I think the space is just too young, and the basics of social insight integration has not begun to materialize. I see a lot of new tools saying they are “Social CRM,” but so far it is more misused buzzword than tangible implementation.&#. Steve Farnsworth, Jolt Social Media. Are you using a social CRM?

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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. use the tools provided by Feedblitz to migrate your feed and notify yout users first. Sometimes the feed would work, sometimes it would appear to be empty. Once Google took it over it just wasn’t reliable.

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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

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. The other half (75% if you can stand it) is created on the fly through curation of relevant content, responding to news items and conversations discovered through social listening tools.

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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. The book is written in tweet form, 140 bite-sized ideas for social media engagement.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

It used to be this would return a list of scholarly papers, some nasty pictures of you at a bachelor party, a random smattering of form posts about cupcakes or software and possibly your connections on some social networks. A potential employer can use a variety of tools to see how well you manage your personal brand online.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Are you prepared to use social media as a communication tool, not just another advertising medium? 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?

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Find their peer group and show them what they are missing, how they could use social media as a collaboration tool and for professional development. Let them understand you’re not asking them to spend all day on social networks and that training is available to help them learn the right way to engage if they need it.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2015

Meerkat and Periscope are being used as broadcasting tools for the most part. 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Sure Google+ can be a powerful tool to share your message with, but this network is in it’s infancy, and with millions of users your message can be left largely unheard unless you have created circles who care about what you have to say and will share it with their own circles and help you get the word out. CircleCount.

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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 fact, Radian6 , who I respect very much, is working with Klout as well as some other tools like OpenAmplify and OpenCalias to get a better rounded picture of what the relationships are and the value of those relationships.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

To me, services like Google+ are tools and tools are only as effective as the skills of the people using them. While there is much focus on which social networking site will ultimately reign supreme, it is, to a large extent, a pointless conversation. Beth Kanter.org. Beth Kanter. AlmostSavvy.com. Irene Koehler.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 19, 2012

I speak a lot about Google+ as a tool for business. 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

JUNE 23, 2011

As with most social networks, the most important things you can do are listen first and be yourself. Here’s a list of a few more advanced social media listening tools. If you want to know what NOT to do, here’s a good post on Twitter gaffes. Stick to opinions, news, and posts around your areas of interest.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

So here’s a thumbnail of just 4 “social networks&# and how community applies to them (in my opinion). This is very general, so don’t get your panties in a bunch if I say your favorite network is not what you think it is. Are ideas like that holding back the evolution of social media?

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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, 2012

Hubspot’s marketing tools help you create inbound marketing through blog posts and landing pages optimized for maximum effect and amazing analytics to give you real insight on who comes to your website. The new workflow tool really streamlines the process for you. Social media publishing. Know your contacts.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I follow almost 4,000 people on Twitter , over 1500 on Linkedin , and more on Facebook , Google+ , blogs , forums, a zillion social networks, wikis and more. I use a combination of tools to schedule my updates and they almost all have a browser bookmarklet so as I surf I can add items to the scheduling tools on the fly.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I don’t care what social network you’re on actually, or who you are, if you wouldn’t say it to a crowd in Times Square with your Mom in the audience, just don’t say it, unless you want a call from Mom. Set up those social listening tools. What to do if this does happen to you? Be listening.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Google+ is a great social network. People are constantly dissing this particular network even though it really has more intelligent conversation going on than many other networks. Frankly it’s not the most intuitive network and there aren’t a lot of tools that make the UI easier to manage.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

The idea is that a short video clip from one friend can spread within your circle of friends to a much larger thing which can then be shared on your social networks or anywhere else on the web. This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. Now, these are not the first to do live video streaming. The latest.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

The idea is that a short video clip from one friend can spread within your circle of friends to a much larger thing which can then be shared on your social networks or anywhere else on the web. This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. Now, these are not the first to do live video streaming. The latest.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This year flew by and the sheer number of new social networks and applications is simply stunning. I wanted to take a moment to thank just a few of the people I’ve learned from this year and I asked them to share an answer to the following question: What was the most important thing you learned about social media this year?

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