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Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Plus end of the road for Klout. Facebook has introduced new tools to its app, Messenger, that make it easier for users to report conversations that violate the network’s community standards. End of the road for Klout. Klout, once known as the arbiter of social media influence is shutting down. Follow List. Embed List.

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While I Was Out: Reflections On a Social Media Hiatus

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re concerned about your “standing” or social scores (cough, Klout, cough) in social media, then you have a panic attack. For the last couple of months, I was basically off Twitter, which I always thought was Klout’s platform du jour. If you have a strong community , they will be there when you come back.

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This Week in Social Media – 5/8/2013

Social Media Marketing

Salesforce has unveiled a Communities solution for the enterprise , which leverages its Chatter platform and other products to create portals that will allow external conversations to be brought into the company more seamlessly. Being a community manager is more than just posting to social networks on behalf of brands.

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Free webinar on Twitter for Australian Teachers – PIL Microsoft Teachers

Laurel Papworth

Monitoring Twitter through 3rd party tools – ethics of spying and privacy. The importance of Klout score to school leavers and graduate . blogs Education Online Communities social media Social Media Australia social networks australian Course Microsoft pil teachers Twitter workshop'

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Alan K’necht: Über Thinker & SEO Brainiac: An Interview

Firebelly

The classic example is the recent move by Google to hide organic search terms from web analytics capture (under the disguise of user privacy). The SEO community is up in arms over it because they now have a harder time proving what they’re doing actually works. It needs to be analyzed and not just reported on.

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Analytics: what are you really learning?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Our analysis showed that although the follower numbers kept growing, this client was failing to reach the real key influencers of its community. Finding value in Klout like sites. We recently worked with a government client who had spent considerable effort and resources over 18 months building a following on Twitter.

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

Convince & Convert

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. link] JasonPeck Hmm- privacy concerns here. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges? There are so many new tools, etc.