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Re: Thesis Just Gets Better and Better

jfouts — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:57:19 -0000

That IS a big change Ari. I think I still like two columns personally. I find the sidebar useful...

Re: Are Tweedledee and Tweedledum on Your Twitter List?

jfouts — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:25 -0000

Val, your 2cents are always welcome!

Re: Are Tweedledee and Tweedledum on Your Twitter List?

jfouts — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:39:55 -0000

Hey! No sooner did I post this than I got a note from Loic announcing the preview version of Seesmic Desktop with Twitter lists integration. Way to adapt!

Re: Social media contests-inexpensive marketing at it’s best?

jfouts — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:50:44 -0000

Hmm, It's pretty hard to run this kind of contest when you don't have many followers on either network to start with. How else are you promoting it? Have you sent it out to your email list to get them to sign on? Shared details with clients or asked co-workers to help spread the news on their networks? At least them you'd have an opportunity to reach them and their networks.

In addition your Twitter presence is very new and most of the posts are promotional so you might start thinking of other ways to engage the user base you want to attract. Do some blog and Twitter surfing to find people who need your products and are blogging about things you can discuss. You don't have to agree with them, the point is to add value to the conversation.
Then they look at your profile and ohhh! there's a contest!

Re: Gravity7: Social Interaction Design by Adrian Chan: Social search and advertising: Google's endgame?

jfouts — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:44:35 -0000

I'm thinkin' that Google just learned what they needed to from the "Beacon Fail" and will implement a deeper and more personally invasive experiment of their own. Will it be Wave? I dunno, I need to see what people do with it to really get what it's capable of vs the hype. I definitely believe there will be more and more narrowing of privacy, no matter what the official line is.

The next question is; as our networks expand beyond our really close friends how much value is there to mining that extended network? We may not know each other or even influence each other at all.

Re: Nattering on about nonprofits and social media

jfouts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:22:33 -0000

Your stunt last year was a hoot Holly. It'll be fun to see what you come up with to top it, but I'm game... (gulp)

Re: LivestreamBackup is now Backupify?

jfouts — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:09:54 -0000

I agree with you Ajoy, and I'm pretty careful about who gets my data. That's why I paid for the service to have it backup to my own Amazon S3 account. I own the data and I can access it any time, but it's not stored on my home machine or laptop where it can then disappear or be copied.

Re: Social Media ROI- or is itROE?

jfouts — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:23:35 -0000

I know, it could be kinda scary to have it become an alternate commenting channel. Attacks would be easy and hard to defend from.

Re: Looking for a social media quick fix?

jfouts — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:40:27 -0000

Good for you Kelsi! Deeper engagement is better than lots of shallow 'hits' IMHO.

Re: Live Broadcasting and Twitter

jfouts — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:07:09 -0000

Well that's pretty cool, thanks Angelina!

Re: Social Media ROI- or is itROE?

jfouts — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:28:11 -0000

Thanks for the support Raychel!

Re: Social Media ROI- or is itROE?

jfouts — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:04:53 -0000

Thanks for letting me know. Typos are my nemesis! Most people used the Brighttalk tag. http://brighttalk.com/summit/67 instead.

Re: Social Media ROI- or is itROE?

jfouts — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:02:29 -0000

Speaking of wikis here's a link to one for social media monitoring tools.
http://sites.google.com/site/socialmediamonitor...
Thanks @chrissfife for the link!

Re: Social Media ROI- or is itROE?

jfouts — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:59:51 -0000

I swear Marshall you find the best geegaws and gadgets. I can't keep up with you! ( :

Re: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2.0- TAMING SOCIAL MEDIA

jfouts — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:56:27 -0000

It great to be able to share your learning experiences with others, and in my opinion the ones who have hands on experience to share are the best teachers!

Re: 84% of Social Media Programs Don’t Measure ROI

jfouts — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:41:18 -0000

There are a lot of reasons people don't measure. They don't have the tools. They forgot to set measurable goals when they started. They don't know what they could measure if they did. They are using social media for purposes that are difficult or impossible to accurately measure.They simply don't care about measurement.

Re: News River – real-time updates for your favorite feeds

jfouts — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:48:28 -0000

Well that's the fun part for me, scanning the titmes to look for good content, learning new things. I'm glad you're finding so many good resources for information!

Re: News River – real-time updates for your favorite feeds

jfouts — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:16:21 -0000

And Lazyfeed is covering both RSS Cloud bases with this post. http://blog.lazyfeed.com/2009/09/lazyfeed-rsscl...

Re: Looking for a social media quick fix?

jfouts — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:09:09 -0000

Thanks for setting me off Marc, I needed that!

Re: What Happens When Someone Copies Your Posts?

jfouts — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:48 -0000

I use Tynt's Tracer jscript to add a line of text "Read more at Janetfouts.com ". Even if they only copy and paste a portion of the post.

I find all kinds of copies of my posts on other sites but now they all have a link back to my blog to read more, so I'm calling it SEO juice.

Tynt has reporting as well so I can see where posts are re-published and decide if I want to make it an issue or be happy to be quoted.

Re: News River – real-time updates for your favorite feeds

jfouts — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:56:27 -0000

An interesting followup to this discussion is the rivalry over real time by Martin Bryant.
http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/16/fight-realtime...

Re: Twitter- Where’s the conversation?

jfouts — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:19:47 -0000

I like that, thanks Joel! In case I haven't thanked you for that OWC member's list, thank you for that too, it's awesome!

Re: Social Media Bookshelf

jfouts — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:40:56 -0000

Thanks for the re-post Marshall. We've got some pretty amazing authors lined up to blog as well as offer their books up for sale through social media bookshelf!

Re: Women Presenters on Social Media

jfouts — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:42:20 -0000

Thanks Wayne, who are we missing? You know everybody!

Re: Linking in to Pay it Forward-Chuck Hester

jfouts — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:48:04 -0000

You probably visited while we were in transition to Feedburner and the
link was missing. Your faith in your powers of observation restored!