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Klout, the Super Bowl, and Our Addiction to Shooting the Messenger

Convince & Convert

Two weeks ago, I received a Klout Perk to be part of the Social 46, a gathering of Indiana’s top social media influencers. According to the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee , Klout was used to help identify the participants, and the list was augmented manually with known local bloggers, gadflies, and connectors.

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Solving Klout’s “Warren Buffett Problem”

Convince & Convert

Matt Thomson, Klout @daddymention. Matt Thomson , VP of Business Development at Klout , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the “Warren Buffett problem” his company faces, those fancy analytics at work behind the Klout algorithms, and expanding to offer brands a whole new product.

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Got Kred? When Andrew Grill Visited #measurePR

Waxing UnLyrical

guest hosts #measurePR? Well, she did such a great job the last time (when she moderated a lively discussion about Kred and Klout), that the folks at Kred got interested in participating in the chat. A1: Recently we released @ kred story a very rich view of your influence with analytics behind every panel #measurePR. Cool, huh?!

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How To Monitor Your Three Essential Internet Marketing Strategies

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A great tool to collect this kind of data is a site called Klout. Klout allows you to sign in and link up a variety of social media platforms. Klout is a great way of measuring overall influence in your niche and on your social media sites as a whole, but overviews still aren’t quite as valuable as the actual facts.

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This Is Being Recorded. By You

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I never tagged myself as an analytics jockey, but switching over to the trip data screen of my GPS turned the long drive into both a game and fascinating collection of data. The Klout effect. Klout is an online platform designed to allocate an actual ranking to individuals as a kind of social scoring system. All of the time.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

For those accustomed to getting stratospheric scores on standardized tests, Klout can seem a bit harsh. A free service for setting up, promoting and hosting Twitter chats. Actionly also includes Twitter account management and analytics tools. Don’t want to follow Twitterers who aren’t following you? twebevent.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

Further, every company has analytics at some level. ” You need Social Analytics Software. Small business alternative: Crowd Booster , Google Analytics (also viable for large business), Swix. Jay is the founder of [link] and host of the Social Pros podcast. investor), Vocus.