Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > How to Get an Influencer’s Attention How to Get an Influencer’s Attention by Tamar Weinberg on March 24, 2010 Share Influence is everywhere, but it’s up to you to spot it. If nothing else, these influencers will help to share your story with their own audience. contacted a number of influencers to see what grabs their attention. Get to know the influencer’s influencers. No hype. MORE >>

With all this talk about influence metrics , here’s my take on what I think you should pay attention to when looking for influencers in your open community. Influence has to do with relationships between people – both online and offline. may be considered an influencer in the association space, but it’s NOT because I have 7k followers on Twitter. There’s no such thing as influence without context. Influence is a temporary and continuously fluctuating state of being for any individual. And by friends, I mean REAL friends. MORE >>

Kred is measurable Influence with 2 metrics: Influence: Ability to drive action: reply, retweet (RT) & new. Influence is on a scale from 1 – 1000 and measures how you inspire others to drive action. We all have influence – Community Influence. Kred offers you recommendations on how to improve your engagement level, and with whom you can possible engage to increase your level of influence and outreach. Example of Top Community Members: There is no influence without transparency. Kred takes into account your offline influence. MORE >>

She’s active on Twitter, Facebook and You Tube. Friends, fans, followers, badges, titles, comments, trackbacks, click-throughs, visits, views and subscribers all handy little benchmarks of our influence. There is so much to gauge that you can get stuck perfecting the measuring part, so stuck that you forget to do the influencing part. Maybe we’ve believed for too long that numbers are the only way to power influence and drive change, recent research using social media networks has started to question that thinking. [Guest Post by Bernadette Jiwa ]. MORE >>

huge hat tip to Tomi Ahonen, an independent consultant included in the Forbes list of the Top 10 Power Influencers in Mobile, for his great ideas on how app developers can borrow a page from the business models of LinkedIn (premium) and other major social networks and charge to broker the contact between members. Drawing from these insights the white paper identifies three rules for app success: Communicate: Reach out with what matters most, make your customers interested – and make it a no-brainer. Connect: Help your users share the apps they love with in-app invites. a U.S.-based MORE >>