Janet Fouts

I know there are a zillion people telling you where to donate your money to help in Haiti right now. There are some scams to be sure, but there are also a lot of organizations on the ground in Haiti now doing good work and they need our help.
We’ve all been moved by the outpouring [...]

Stamen Design is a boutique design firms in San Francisco that consistently leads the pack with innovative displays of data. I’ve admired their work for many years and they’re famous for creating unique ways to view live data as it happens–like the groundbreaking coverage of the Whitbread Cup way back in the ’90s when [...]

Recently I’ve been testing quite a few geo-location “games” and none of them  feel better for playing than Causeworld. Causeworld launched an iPhone and Android app in December that allows you to “check in” at merchants and collect “karma points”. Points can be donated to a number of worthy causes ranging from feeding the [...]

Today is Beth Kanter’s 53rd birthday, and her one wish for her birthday is this. She wants 53 of her loyal friends and followers to help raise money for some Cambodian kids. I think it’s actually the third year in a row she’s done this, and she’s never been shy to use a presentation or [...]

That guest post from Michael Martine on how to pitch bloggers was intended mostly as tongue in cheek, but it’s amazing how many emails I get about it! So I decided to give you some straight-up talk about really pitching bloggers. The first tip is; it’s not a with a standard press release! Really, do [...]

This week after the holidays is generally a little languid business-wise and I like to take some focused time to reflect on how my business has evolved over the last year and where it’s going next year. I do a lot of house-cleaning and organizing which really clarifies for me what my real focus has [...]

Many people seem to think if they have a big ‘ol following on their favorite social media networks they’ve attained a level of social media success. While it may get you some search engine love and people may click on the links you send out, if you’re not actually engaging other users in conversation it’s [...]

For a site that is often purported to be all warm and fuzzy, full of social enthusiasm and community they don’t seem to get the idea of community and camaraderie very well at Facebook. First there was the privacy policy debacle, then there was the whole thing about not using contests to grow your Fbook [...]

I’m hearing it all over. People are maxed out on social media to the point they question if ANY of it has value. In many cases it’s simply because they stretched themselves too thin in the first rush of social media frenzy.
You know what I mean. You find one network after the other and each [...]

I’m not really all that big on this annual prediction stuff, but a conversation on our Blog Talk Radio show last night sucked me in. Just a little.
What are going to be the big changes in social media for 2010?
I think we’re going to see a shift from creating strategies and marketing plans to actually [...]