Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A few weeks ago I noticed that Klout had added the WordPress button to the available channels to connect to which was encouraging. Quite frankly I think those that write successful blogs carry more influence then just about anyone in the social media sphere, so a welcome addition. But not so fast.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I cannot believe how much drama there is around Klout’s most recent changes. You see, Klout had decided I was (am) influential on bacon. When I was doing this, Jen Zingsheim jokingly asked if my goal was to become “influential” on bacon, so it tickled me to see that, as far as Klout went, this had apparently happened.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 19, 2013

Here’s my pick of the week’s top social media news. May 18: this week in social media. May 18: this week in social media. What''s new and cool in the world of social media. The Official Klout Blog. Actress Emma Watson hates social media. Gartner: fake social media reviews.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 23, 2011

The recent addition of LinkedIn to the mix of social media considered when calculating a Klout score has left many wondering about Klout, how to raise your score, and whether it matters after all. Have you heard of Klout ? What is Klout? Why should you care about Klout? Potential Influence.

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Socialized

MARCH 10, 2011

Like me, maybe you've been reading about clout, Klout or KLOWT. Traditionally the word means influence or power. It now refers to a complex measurement of a person's or company's social media influence. It has been said that one of the nicest things about industry standards is there are so many.

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Dave Fleet

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The Harvard Business Review recently published a post entitled “ Return on Influence, the New ROI “ In it, the author suggested that marketers consider the use of “Return on Influence” as a metric for measuring social media activity. Return on Influence has nothing to do with business objectives.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And since the topic of influence in social media isn’t going away any time soon, particularly with new tools cropping up , we thought we’d talk about that. How do you approach measuring influence in social media? Influence tools can’t get to offline influence.”

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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So I went on a blog hiatus for a few weeks, and it certainly made a significant impact on my Klout score. On one hand I get that one’s “influence” can fluctuate based on the contributions they make to the digital world, but the real question is, should it that much over a short period? Related posts: Social Influence.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The August 21 #MeasurePR chat was a fun and lively discussion about a few topics of interest to measurement geeks—including the notorious topic we love to pick apart: Klout. Here are some highlights: Klout has recently made changes to its algorithm, many of which appear to be in response to (heavy) criticism of the “influence” tool.

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2012

” Social media was an essential tool for this campaign, allowing potential consumers to “opt in” if they were interested in learning about the newer model. However, social media allowed people to self-select. Enlisting 100 “social-media whiz kids” to drive Ford Fiesta models for six months.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 9, 2013

Social Media Analysitcs (Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg). Getting a solid return on investment in social media is tough to measure. 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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 7, 2011

Seeing as how hot a topic “influence&# is , we’d ping each other every now and again, and I started getting curious about Traackr. It’s about context, relevance and, therefore, potential influence based on that contextual relevance. Traackr won’t give you an “influencer score.&#

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Jason Yormark

APRIL 21, 2011

One of the hot trends in social media these days are the crop of sites that are claiming to measure ones social media influence. Sites like Klout , PeerIndex , and up and comer Empire Avenue all have unique ways in which they measure your social influence based on a variety of factors.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Other than signing book deals, the favorite sport of the social media punditry these days seems to be bashing Klout. The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. Offline Influence Doesn’t Have an Algorithm.

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Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 27, 2011

You would literally think it was a zombie outbreak the way people are responding to the latest Klout score changes. to “I work in social media and this directly effects my career!!” I work in social media, and my Klout score has absolutely ZERO influence on the clients I work with, obtain, or my career path quite frankly.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Klout is a site that measures your influence on the web, using social media sites. Essentially, the more influential you are on social media websites, the higher your Klout score is. The score goes from 1 to 100, and I would say that it’s pretty easy to get a Klout score of 30 or higher.

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Idaconcpts

JULY 10, 2012

Social media is the driving force behind much of the World Wide Web. A recent Pew Internet report found that two-thirds of adult Internet users are using a social networking site; other studies have noted the growing use of social media for marketing purposes. What Does All of This Mean?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 29, 2013

Here’s the write up from the #measurePR chat held on May 14: We kicked things off by discussing the new program from Klout, called Klout Experts. This evolution of Klout allows users to ask questions of experts. Details in this Wired piece.). Earlier in her career, Jen worked at Fleishman-Hillard’s St.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 11, 2011

Over the last year most of the social mediari have been obsessed with finding influencers for their clients (you). Several services have popped up to help companies cut through the.

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The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is the problem that Salorix is trying to solve with a new social media management platform called Amplfy 2.0, Amplfy goes way beyond using a one-dimensional Klout score to rank influencers. It even goes beyond what contextual influence scoring tools like Appinions can do. which it launched today.

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Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 27, 2011

You would literally think it was a zombie outbreak the way people are responding to the latest Klout score changes. to “I work in social media and this directly effects my career!!” I work in social media, and my Klout score has absolutely ZERO influence on the clients I work with, obtain, or my career path quite frankly.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

Manage all of your social media accounts from a single login on your iPhone? Make more productive use of your time on social networking sites? Find tools to do all of the above and much more in this collection of helpful business, online and social media tools, apps and reviews. Cool Social Media Tools.

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Social Media Today

MAY 11, 2018

The online world is about to lose one its most prominent influence measures, with Klout to shut down later this month.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network. The Klout 50 ranks the most social CEOs in the USA by influence.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Remember how Klout tagged me as a bacon “influencer” ? To me, this is what social media and, ultimately, human interaction, is all about. That’s what social media is all about. All dreamed up in what has to have been a genius moment by Erin Feldman. It’s huge. Or, at least, it can be.

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The Social Media Incubator

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Klout is a service that claims to measure social media influence , but is it accurate? That’s the million-dollar question among social media marketers. For starters, the definition of influence is a little bit murky. Klout tries to measure both, but it doesn’t end there.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Speaking social can sometimes be tough, especially with clients who haven’t yet engaged in social media or sometimes just “don’t get it” Even those clients who do understand and engage in the social space are sometime confused about the use of specific terms and jargon that social media pros use.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 19, 2011

This may just be me, but I cringe every time I hear “social influence.&# Social influence has become a buzzword (or buzz-phrase) in the social media world. Various tools are coming out to measure the influence that social networking users have over the other people in their network.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 17, 2012

Klout is the social media measurement tool that measures influence – how many followers, how much interaction and the style of interaction that a person has in their personal or business social network. E.g. Klout updates an influencers score but you see it on Salesforce or in a Reuters newspaper article.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 23, 2018

Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features. This week's must-know news from the world of social media includes new features and functions from Instagram, Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn and Twitter. Plus end of the road for Klout. End of the road for Klout. followers . Listly by Sherrilynne Starkie.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2013

Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. Finding Bloggers and Influencers. Klout and Kred. The value and methodology of services like Klout and Kred has been much debated and discussed, so I’ll leave you to your own opinion there.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 10, 2018

Klout, the site that gave us our social media Klout scores, is shutting down on May 25, 2018. At the height of Klout’s reign in social media, social media influencers, with a high enough Klout score, could get rewarded by advertisers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I’m being challenged to a battle of egos by a stranger on Twitter: “@pierreloic your Klout Score is 33 (I’m a 51). Check out your @klout profile today.”. She’s after all “a 63″ and the Klout resident expert on all things bacon and Kim Kardashian. Guest post by Pierre-Loic Assayag. I’m glad we didn’t let it.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Still, questions remain: how do I use social media most effectively across the enterprise? Which social media monitoring tools should I use? What social media developments and trends should I be watching?

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 5, 2013

I have news for you: you’re not using your online social media influence as you should be. Make money on the internet by building up your social media influence. Build your own private social network by networking online with others. Well, it may not be because you’re not putting in the effort.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ultimately, as Olivier Blanchard has pointed out repeatedly , social media marketing has to demonstrate an ROI (though he acknowledges the questions have to be made more specific). But it’s crucial to the social media ROI debate to recognize that “R” is an end-of-the-process measure. Social media/network-referred traffic.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Cool Social Media Tools. A free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user.

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