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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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 12, 2013

Here’s my pick of the week’s top social media news. May 11: this week in social media. May 11: this week in social media. Top stories from social media world for this week! Klout announces experts preview. Has Social Media Lost Something? crowd rank.

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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? How to raise your Klout score.

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Akamai Marketing

JULY 2, 2012

In particular, I’ve aimed my arrows at Klout. But within the last year, there is a new player, Kred, which hasn’t quite caught on the way Klout did. Despite my krotchey Klout reaction, I’ll admit to using Klout, PeerIndex and Kred scores into baseline, weighted influence measurements for analytics purposes.

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Klout Comparison Influencer Airlines 177

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. I certainly don’t lose any sleep over my Klout score. Many businesses are using Klout as a measuring stick for influence and not just for their perks program. I’m not entirely sure what I think about that.

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 17, 2012

If you ask me what my Klout score is …I’ll likely vomit. Too many folks get caught up in the numbers game when it comes to social media. They use numbers like “friends”, “followers” and…ewww…”Klout” to determine whether they are doing social right.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 8, 2012

A while back, I asked a fairly straight-forward question on my Facebook page : What is your social media pet peeve? The value, here, is to help each of us understand what irritates other people in the realm of social media. 25 social media pet peeves. What’s yours? So…here they are.

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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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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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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 8, 2012

The biggest category of content that attracted visitors to SocMedSean.com in 2011 was definitely my social media comic strips. In case you missed them, here are links to all my 2011 social media comics in one post. In case you were wondering, my favorite comic that I created this year was The Social Media Kneejerk.

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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. they shout. “It’s a bastardization!

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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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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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Review Tools Social Media Klout 209

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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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. Well, Erin decided to take that a step further.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So I figured I’d just share some of what I experienced the last several months… consider them reflections on a social media hiatus from a business point of view. If you’re concerned about your “standing” or social scores (cough, Klout, cough) in social media, then you have a panic attack.

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Socialized

MARCH 10, 2011

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

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Influencer Social Media Klout Industry 199

Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 9, 2013

Social Media Analysitcs (Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg). Getting a solid return on investment in social media is tough to measure. This is crucial insight was key to developing a successful social media strategy. Finding value in Klout like sites. Tracking the KPIs of Social Media.

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Analytics Social Capital Klout Analysis 380

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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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? I’ve said more than enough about Klout so I won’t say anything more right now!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 3, 2011

Since I like looking at the social media presence of NBA teams I thought I’d run the 2011 playoff teams through the beta version of the new Klout to see how the fare against each other. Atlanta had the worst Klout score in the conference so that doesn’t sync with their surprising performance thus far in the playoffs.

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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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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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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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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. Klout Perks was shut down in 2015.

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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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Social Media Social CRM Creative Commons Sentiment 255

Kikolani

MARCH 16, 2011

How do these things affect your Twitter follower count and Klout? If all of those tweets do not include your username, not only are you losing the potential for new followers, but you are going to miss out on those precious mentions that weight highly in building your Klout, ie. Your Favorite Social Buttons and Plugins.

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 29, 2012

And for big brands that can’t always respond to every mention, it is important to be talked about on social media networks. Forget Klout. Howie Goldfarb is president and CEO of Sky Pulse Media , an agency focused on helping clients achieve outsize results in measurable bottom-line-impacting ways.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 27, 2013

The first-ever online marketplace for buying and selling links in articles and blog posts based on Google Authorship and Klout score has been launched. AuthorLinks is a marketplace for buying and selling links based on a web site owner’s Google Authorship and overall Klout score. AuthorLinks is 2017 Link Building.

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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. Social Media Monitoring Tools. Create animations?

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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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The Realtime Report

MARCH 31, 2014

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook and Twitter: Twitter rolls out photo tagging. Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2013

Klout recently announced the addition of Instagram interaction and Bing searches to their algorithm. While I don’t take Klout scores as the be-all end-all of social value, it’s still a useful metrics tool when evaluating how much an individual or a brand engages with the rest of the world.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 7, 2011

My graph is not totally untrue for those of you that play in the space, but I was reading a post by Tom Webster today titled, The Uneasy Relationship between Twitter and Social Media Measurement and I knew exactly where he was going with it. If the answer is yes, this troubles me.

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Crimson Hexagon Social Media Radian6 Klout 189

Akamai Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2011

And because of my strategic side, I’ve been doing a lot of work over the last year on social media analytics and ROI models. Social media is unlike any other medium we’ve seen before, and so we’ve got to measure it differently. Here’s the thing: I’m also strategic and an activator.

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