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Why Critics of Klout Are Missing the Big Picture

Convince & Convert

Other than signing book deals, the favorite sport of the social media punditry these days seems to be bashing Klout. The pugilists are plentiful, and appear to be trying to win a merit badge for dismissiveness. In fairness, Klout sees that challenge too, and has in my estimation always been very open to discussing it.

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4 Free Tools for Researching Guest Blogging and Advertising Opportunities

Kikolani

They even offer a badge you can add to your site that will link advertisers to your Google Ad Planner data. Klout is not an entirely full-proof system for measuring a Twitter user’s engagement level in social media yet, but it is getting there. Social Engagement Measurement with Klout. All for free!

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Know What’s Working on Social Media: 26 Free Social Media Analytics Tools

Buffer Social

With Buffer’s free plan, you get all the major engagement stats for every update you post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. is the Top Tweet/Top Post badge that pops up when an update goes above and beyond the average performance. WolframAlpha Facebook Report. Facebook Insights. SocialRank. LikeAlyzer.

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

I’ll bet those Foursquare users are also active tweeters, only because when I created a new account a few days ago and was prompted to select friends to share my check-ins with, there were about 50 Facebook friends with Foursquare accounts but a whopping 500 Twitter friends with the accounts. What are the benefits to nonprofits ?

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Here are 10 Utah Entrepreneurs You Need to Know

Stay N' Alive

He's one of the top Facebook application developers I know, and he even helped do the technical editing for my new book, Facebook Application Development For Dummies. He wrote TwiKlout , an extension that shows a person's Klout score next to their profile on Twitter.com. It requires a Facebook login.

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The Baconator on Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

We bloggers like badges. Right here on WUL, there are a few that I’m proud of (you’ll remember how thrilled I was when we finally got the Alltop badge ). But today I’m exceptionally proud to unveil my newest badge and, perhaps, my favorite of all: the Baconator. So what’s the big deal about a bacon badge?

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Breaking Out of Social Disclosure Jail With CMP.LY

Convince & Convert

It’s been about 15 months since those crazy kids at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed their new disclosure guidelines to “protect the public&# from inappropriately cozy business relationships being companies and bloggers, tweeters, Facebookers and more. Probably you too.). Enter CMP.LY. Bloggers log-in to CMP.LY

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