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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

is the Top Tweet/Top Post badge that pops up when an update goes above and beyond the average performance. Working with your profiles and pages across the major social channels, Klout puts together a score from 0 to 100 on your influence on social media. My favorite feature—and one I’m always stoked to see!—is

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

How are social influence sites such as Klout and PeerIndex involved? People like merit badges such as that of Mayor if checking into a location more than anyone else. To what extent do geography and demography play a part in Foursquare users and companies? What are the benefits to nonprofits ? How should companies do it ?

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Here are 10 Utah Entrepreneurs You Need to Know

Stay N' Alive

He wrote TwiKlout , an extension that shows a person's Klout score next to their profile on Twitter.com. iActionable provides Foursquare-like reward badges and other items that you can integrate into your own platforms to engage and entice users to stick around. Ed can be found at @edorcutt on Twitter.

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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

has become the standard for URL shortening; Klout has become the standard for influence measuring; and Creative Commons has become the standard for digital copyrights, CMP.LY CEO Tom Chernaik , the company has an array of new features just around the corner, including visual disclosure badges to insert into blog posts. Enter CMP.LY.

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