Janet Fouts

3. January 2009

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Will Social Media Transform Your Business?

Well here we are a week into the new year and wondering where '09 will take us. The holidays are over and some sink into the doldrums of sugar lows and the sudden quiet that descends after all the family and friends go home. Others see this quiet time as a time to renew and [...]

31. December 2008

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20 Essential Twitter Apps You Didn’t Know You Needed (until now)

You know how you find that incredible Twitter app, use it a couple of times and then can't remember where it was? Me too. So I pulled this quick list together as much as a bookmark list for my own use as to share some apps you might not have seen yet. It is not at all [...]

3. January 2009

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Plodt for Your Twitter Trends

Yes, its's another silly Web 2.0 name for a Twitter app. Go figure. But as with many of these little tools it has it's uses. Oh, and there's a Facebook widget too. Oh wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Plodt is a graphing tool for Twitter. Going to CES and you want to see what everybody [...]

31. December 2008

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What’s Your Social Media Quotient?

As 2009 gets rolling it's a good time to take stock of your online position and see if it's up to date or not. Social media should be in your toolkit, but in what form? How do you find what networks and social media sites are a good fit for you and how do you [...]

15. December 2008

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Blogging for Dollars

A couple of posts popped up lately in which the blogger has been paid to blog about a particular retailer. Twitter was all a Twitter about it with some big name bloggers getting drummed with Tweets and emails accusing them of damaging their own credibility by selling out and on and on. It also put the [...]

2. December 2008

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Diving into a Meme

I was tagged to participate in this meme by Lynn Morton who writes a really great blog called "Social Networking for Association Professionals". I'm in amazing company and honored to make her list. The idea is to tell 5 fun things about myself and then choose 5 people I'd like to know better to [...]

30. November 2008

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Qwitter I Qwit You

Qwitter is a Twitter helper app. that sends you an email when one of your followers quits following you, with a copy of the post that sent them over the Twitter edge. I signed up for Qwitter a few weeks ago, and it was pretty interesting seeing who stopped following my updates and for what kinds [...]

28. November 2008

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Monitter: Real-time Twitter Tracking

Monitter is one of the newest apps to track Twitter conversations in real-time. You can simply enter up to 3 topics (your brand, news keywords or favorite Tweeters) and see real time monitoring of updates. You can filter updates by distance from a specific location as well, and Monitter offers feeds in English, Spanish, German [...]

17. November 2008

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When MotrinMoms Attack

One really interesting phenomenon of social media is how fast a discussion can spread through the various networks, and how the momentum of a little negative buzz can quickly become a firestorm. An excellent example of this is this weekend's Motrin scandal. Motrin posted an ad on their web site with a glib comment about [...]

12. November 2008

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New Wine Consumer - Online Radio for Vinophiles

Are you in the wine business or interested in wine? Then you should know about the New Wine Consumer website. The site features a TalkShoe radio show with Randolph Resnick who talks with people in all phases of the industry from bloggers and marketers to wine producers and consumers. Next Wednesday, Nov 19, I'll be talking [...]

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