Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In these days of social media they Google and search social networks to find out more about a prospect before they even call them.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

This morning I had a conversation with a friend about Google+ and it’s a conversation I used to have about Twitter. I used to say this to people about Twitter, and now I find people have exactly the same issue with Google+. That’s not how a social network works though.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 17, 2012

Twitter recently announced new rate limits on how many “hits” to the API it will allow. Twitter is changing the number of times the application can do that from 350 per hour to 60. In this diagram taken from the Twitter developer blog they break Twitter’s ecosystem up into 4 quadrants.

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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. Choosing your networks.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 21, 2014

BuzzSumo -Keyword, brand and news monitoring, locating influencers and interacting with them on Twitter right from the dashboard. Hootsuite -Schedule posts and monitor multiple social networks from one dashboard. Configure the best times for each network and trust Buffer to do the rest. Scheduling is quite similar.

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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

JUNE 2, 2011

I’ve been gratified and a little puzzled by some of the people who follow me on Twitter (or any other social network for that matter). I did a little rough surveying of my Twitter friends and it seems there are really only a few ways people make the decision to follow or not follow on Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 13, 2018

Twitter shares, by the way, jumped almost 5% on the announcement. 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. 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

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

MARCH 23, 2011

Sure, there may be a half life if somebody sees it and re-tweets it or links to it in a blog post or another network. You might see it re-surface now and then and bring you some more Twitter love. For that you need a network of connections, preferably with connections of their own! Be the first to share useful industry news.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

On Twitter a Retweet can be a valuable way to share information with your network, build your following and pay homage to the person retweeted. If you are in a Twitter application there is likely a RT button. On Twitter if you click the retweet link under the post it will retweet it for you but will not allow you to edit.

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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

APRIL 18, 2014

Instead of letting the cacophony of social media and business matters drive you, take control of what you allow to be important. Knee jerk reactions to a flame war on Twitter are not going to make things better. So much of what we see businesses doing on social media these days is about building fans, follows, connections and leads.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

On the one hand it’s got the best features of Twitter like immediacy and fast moving conversations with the added plus of being able to direct conversations to channels (Circles) of people who are actually interested in that topic and exclude the ones who could care less. It’s Twitter on steroids. OptimizeBook.com.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 24, 2011

In it she describes her experience on the island and she also talks about updating Facebook and Twitter and reaching out to family and friends during Anders Behring Breivik’s rampage. It really hits home in times like this how deeply engrained social networks are in our everyday lives. She writes: "I am awake.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2011

I really do think this is important stuff, and that’s probably what Guy Kawasaki means when he calls people Twitter Nazis , I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. So here’s a thumbnail of just 4 “social networks&# and how community applies to them (in my opinion). Look to Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Both apps allow some engagement with your Twitter following, and Meerkat also gives the option to connect to your Facebook account. 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.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

We all *think* we’re doing great when the Twitter alerts are rolling, Email’s pinging, Facebook is always open and your RSS feeds are pushing you new content to share. 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. Efficient right?

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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. “I let people I didn’t really know into my Facebook friends and now it’s full of people I don’t really talk to.&# “My Twitter following is out of control with noise and spam&#.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

It’s natural for you to get excited when somebody with a huge amount of perceived social capital responds to something you said. Someone with 100,000 followers on Twitter re-tweeted you or responded? Numbers game. Cool, but does that number really matter at all? Don’t be that person.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I can monitor conversations from social media sites, import my contacts from Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, email and then tag, sort and monitor what’s going on at the individual or corporate level across my social networks through their dashboard. As a social media coach I work with a lot of companies.

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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. We lasted 15 minutes.

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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. Klout scores now show up in the Twitter streams of those who use Seesmic and some other apps. Peer Index.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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. There are lots of ways to use social media efficiently. I’m not saying you have to get the CXO on Twitter all day, they’ve got work to do.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

That’s even more true in a social network whose users are often less web savvy and thrown by major UI changes as well as concerned about privacy issues. On Twitter today Myspace is trending, not because it’s about Myspace but because people are suggesting Facebook is doomed to the same fate as Myspace.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

We all know video is wildly popular across the board and people love the experience of sharing their life experiences with others in real time.When Meerkat launched in March it got a huge bump from social media marketers who created live video in real time from the South by Southwest conference. Remember Qik (say “quick”)?

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

We all know video is wildly popular across the board and people love the experience of sharing their life experiences with others in real time.When Meerkat launched in March it got a huge bump from social media marketers who created live video in real time from the South by Southwest conference. Remember Qik (say “quick”)?

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Cuz that’s what Twitter is you know, it’s public. 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.

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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. Turn off Twitter. Leaving Twitter open in your browser all day is distracting. I tell clients to pick one network you like. Turn off email.

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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. I like to say Google+ combines the best of Twitter and Facebook on one network.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This allows you to easily promote them on your chosen social networks and schedule them to post at a particular time. The Hubspot tool even suggests the most appropriate times to post to reach your network most effectively. There’s also a bookmarklet, so you can post to your social networks from your browser on the fly.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I just read the Sprout Social Q4 Index for 2017 , and it’s got some very interesting data, especially if you’re a marketer. The report is based on data from 357,000 public social profiles (171,000 Facebook; 134,000 Twitter; 52,000 Instagram) of continually active accounts. They analyzed more than 5.7 Yeah, you probably did.

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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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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Just like with Twitter it’s better to spread out your shares rather than inundating us with them all at once. Reciprocation is the core of social interaction. Remember that as more users follow your boards you have an opportunity to remind them of your existence every time you post a new pin. Create boards that are different.

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