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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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While I Was Out: Reflections On a Social Media Hiatus

Waxing UnLyrical

You haven’t really asked me any so far – though I do appreciate the warm welcome back, and the team does too, thank you! If you’re concerned about your “standing” or social scores (cough, Klout, cough) in social media, then you have a panic attack. So what’s important? So what’s important?

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This Week in Social Media – 5/8/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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What I Learned from My TestMasters (And TheGreensheet) #SocialMadness Experience

Waxing UnLyrical

They write about hires, mergers and events in the business community. The contest is based on a Final Four-style bracketed arrangement, pitting teams against one another in qualifying prelims and high seed vs. low seed match-ups. Each bracket consists of 64 teams in the original categories, but on a national rather than local level.

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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

It's a chance to connect and brainstorm with others by finding affinity groups ("Communities") within Empire Avenue. Why I think Empire Avenue is onto something Other sites such as Friendfeed, Quora or Klout all give us some information or let us interact with each other in some way, but they're each limited.

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Top 13 Social Media Monitoring Tools

Buzzlogix

You can also publish posts from the Sprout Social Dashboard and collaborate with your team. Klout is social media monitoring software that must be mentioned. Overall, Klout is a great Twitter tool for measuring influence through engagement. This is possible through team collaboration. Simply Measured. Falcon Social .

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10 reasons Avon Is Not Too Late To The Social Media Party

Diva Marketing Blog

In steps a man who defies convention when he builds his sales force with a team of women. They have a brand community of 5.8 There are great examples of brands that put their community to work and turned their business around. KLOUT PERKS : With 5.8 million reps. Take for example, Harley Davidson.