Janet Fouts

Challenging Dunbar's Number

The question of how many friends you can effectively communicate with goes round and round in social media circles. The “Dunbar’s Number” theory is frequently quoted as a measure of how many connections one person can really engage with at any one time. Usually by somebody who’s having trouble managing what network they have [...]

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Twitter manners- how to write good tweets and be a good twittizen

Like any community there are a lot of un-written laws to how you tweet on Twitter. Most of it is just plain common courtesy and some of it is specific to the platform. What I’m posting here in no particular order are the ones I try to remember and I encourage you to add your [...]

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Social media contests-inexpensive marketing at it's best?

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 [...]

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