Tag Archive | "Facebook"
Facebook Changes the Rules. Again
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 [...]
Continue reading...Hands-on Social Media
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I’ve just had a remarkable two days working with Tech Soup volunteers in the “Tech Soup Kitchen” at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault Leadership event in Sacramento. Our mission: Help attendees understand how they can use social media for outreach, education, fundraising and branding. We worked hands on with members on a one-on-one basis, setting up [...]
Continue reading...Win a Copy of Social Media Success!
Monday, July 13, 2009
I’m very excited to announce that my book, Social Media Success! will be released late this fall (Maybe early October!). This book has been a long time coming, and I’m fortunate to have a fabulous publisher and lots of support from my family, friends and clients while I pull together case studies and information that [...]
Continue reading...Grassroots Fundraising with Social Media
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Social media channels are perfect for grassroots organizers to quickly create buzz and find their following. Take the case of Help a Mother Out. Lisa Truong and Rachel Fudge saw an Oprah segment on the tent cities outside of Sacramento filled with homeless people with nowhere to go. They were moved to contact local shelters [...]
Continue reading...Facebook landrush begins
Friday, June 12, 2009
In case you haven’t heard yet, Facebook is now allowing the creation of “vanity URL’s” on their site. In other words, instead of your link to your Facebook page being Facebook.com/people/youruser/w35235y050 it can now be your user name like so “http://www.facebook.com/jfouts “. Image via Wikipedia Since Facebook opened the floodgates just a short while ago over 500,000 [...]
Continue reading...Build relationships instead of just a network
Thursday, May 14, 2009
I know I’ve told you it’s important to build a network of social media profiles to grow your visibility, deliver your message more broadly and gain more opportunities to learn from your connections, but I do not subscribe to the belief that mega-networks really pay off. At least not all by themselves. That said, [...]
Continue reading...Ben and Jerry's Put the Social Back in Social Media
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
<img src=”http://img.skitch.com/20090421-qbg3aujtsys66mk913igmfwkmb.jpg” alt=” Ben and Jerry’s” align=”left”/><p>Ben and Jerry’s put the social in social media</p> Today is Ben and Jerry’s Free Cone Day, and to celebrate it I’d like to celebrate Ben and Jerry’s for being the progressive and social company they are. What’s more social than an ice cream social? Let’s face, ice cream is [...]
Continue reading...Social media contests-inexpensive marketing at it's best?
Friday, April 10, 2009
Recently we’ve seen a lot more games and contests on Twitter vying for attention. A couple I’ve been involved in, the Social Media Trivia Quiz for Composica and Twickets for the Pinot Wine Summit, were quite successful at building visibility quickly and fun to boot. Social media seems to be populated with legions of games [...]
Continue reading...Building a Facebook Page (part 2)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Now if you followed the directions to build your own Facebook page in part 1, you’re ready to dress your new Facebook page up a bit. Again, I’m assuming you have some familiarity with Facebook already, but even if you don’t, you should be able to log in and follow along. Since the re-design, Facebook [...]
Continue reading...Build Your Own Facebook Page
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Clients sometimes ask what I charge to build a Facebook page. I don’t charge anything at all for building a Facebook page, and I’ll tell you why. Pretty much anybody can build a Facebook page in 15 minutes or less. Actually there’s nothing to building the page at all, and don’t let anybody tell [...]
Continue reading...
© 2010 Janet Fouts. Powered by Wordpress.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Comments