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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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 23, 2018

Plus end of the road for Klout. New reporting tools for Facebook Messenger. 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. Follow List. Embed List. Instagram users get mute.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

What are the best free tools for analyzing a Twitter profile? During a social media audit I like to run a company’s Twitter profiles through some basic analysis tools to set benchmarks and compare them to competitors. I got good response to my post on Facebook analytics tools so I thought I’d do something similar for Twitter.

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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. Thanks Klout!

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 18, 2012

Bringing Klout to the Enterprise? Unfortunately, despite all the criticism of tools like Klout on the open Internet, there seems to be a demand somewhere for tools that reduce actual people and relationship to numbers. Get ready for the interns to become more influential than your C-suite.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2013

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. However utilizing enterprise-level tools is not always an option for smaller organizations, or even large ones with budget constraints. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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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.). is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. measurePR Recap: The Jenster is Back!

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Welcome Direct Messages are both a useful tool and the bane of the Twitter existence. I tried their paid service and I just felt that that overall, the services were clunky and in some cases, redundant to tools I like better. For those services, I use and suggest SocialOomph. Some are free, some are part of their paid service.

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Buffer Social

MARCH 6, 2017

We’ve refreshed this post for 2017, check out the latest and greatest social media analytics tools below. I’m grateful for the insight from some truly incredible tools that help make sense of the actions I take on social media. The answers are out there, and there are tools to help you find them. Followerwonk.

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Analytics Social Media Tools Klout 111

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Discover how to accomplish all of the tasks above and more using some of the coolest free and modestly priced social media and web tools released in the past year or so. Cool Social Media Tools. This tool makes unfollowing non-followers easy. A free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. paper.li.

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Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos 206

The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In March of this year we published The Realtime Report’s Guide to Influence Measurement Tools. Our goal was to cut through the hype and provide a clear-eyed, no-nonsense look at the evolving tools and best practices for identifying, prioritizing and engaging influencers.

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Kikolani

MARCH 13, 2011

Free Research Tools. Here are some informative, free tools to find and research other blogs that will give you what you need in both of the above departments! Compete is a great tool for comparing one blog’s traffic with another’s. Social Engagement Measurement with Klout. Your Blog Research Tools.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 6, 2012

Influence Measurement Tools. Klout has probably been in the centre of this discussion, the service trying to determine a person’s influence by scoring different attributes around a person’s profile. More and more companies are starting to use the Klout score from for instance a job recruitment perspective. About Awareness Inc.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It isn’t that we need a tool that does everything. Its that we need a tool that does what it does really well. As a blogger, there are numerous tools at your disposal to track how your content is doing. Overall, I like PostRank, its a relatively new tool so I suspect that they will continue to improve.

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The Realtime Report

MARCH 31, 2014

Lithium Technologies acquires Klout–ties social media influence to brand sentiment – social influence measurement company Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies (WSJ). Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

However, finding the right influencer marketing tools can be a major challenge. That’s why we’ve provided a list of tools to help you develop your influencer marketing strategy. Followerwonk (free tool) : This tool by Moz makes it easy to find relevant influencers by topic and location on Twitter. TIME: 11 a.m.

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Buzzlogix

MAY 15, 2017

The key to gathering the data you need is using the top social media monitoring tools. These tools monitor everything about user behavior so you can capitalize on that information. The following are the top 13 social media monitoring tools available today. Twitter Counter is a tool used to track your Twitter stats.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 3, 2013

While earned media is tough to build, there are tools out there that can help you increase earned media. More importantly, these tools are built to help you increase what is defined as measures to capture earned media – such as shares, retweets, pins, +1′s, etc. Here are my 9 recommendations for tools to increase earned media.

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agora pulse

JUNE 20, 2017

ManageFlitter is certainly a useful Twitter management tool for brands with multiple channels and those looking for better analytics, something TweetDeck never really provided. However, this tool doesn’t come cheap and for a social media manager like myself, with 10 + accounts it would be $43 per month. The Verdict. Over 1,500.00

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Tweetdeck Klout iPad iPhone 131

SocMed Sean

JULY 8, 2012

–Sean Posting a lot of meaningless content (pins, check-ins, etc…) just to artificially inflate your Empire Avenue, Klout, or Kred score. People who use social media as a marketing tool, rather than an engagement opportunity. Spam and/or Phishing – via Twitter, LinkedIn email or any social media channel.

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Social Media Klout Creative Commons eBook 279

Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2013

Matt Thomson, Klout @daddymention. Matt Thomson , VP of Business Development at Klout , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the “Warren Buffett problem” his company faces, those fancy analytics at work behind the Klout algorithms, and expanding to offer brands a whole new product.

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 21, 2015

It can be a powerful tool used to develop a vast professional network. Here are five best practices on how to use Twitter as a professional networking tool. Twitter can be an invaluable tool for a variety of reasons. Twitter is more than just a method to share your thoughts regarding any particular subject. Mention Others.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 18, 2012

Between our new newsletter, the One Social Thing , and the handy tools below, we hope to give you enough time- and sanity-saving techniques so you can go home at 5pm , be with your family, and even take up a hobby. If you’ve ever launched a blogger outreach campaign, you know that influencer identification goes beyond the Klout score.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

I took the opportunity to contact some of my esteemed friends and colleagues who are experts in their field and asked for their advice on their favorite little known social media secret and social media tools, including their own if they had them. David’s Favorite Little Known Social Media Tool : I have two actually.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 19, 2011

Various tools are coming out to measure the influence that social networking users have over the other people in their network. Using fancy and usually unexplained algorithms, these tools always generate a score. Using fancy and usually unexplained algorithms, these tools always generate a score. So what is Klout measuring?

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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. Influence tools can’t get to offline influence.” I’ve said more than enough about Klout so I won’t say anything more right now!

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Influencer Social Media Klout Flickr 174

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The following article addresses the best practices for measuring and monitoring your marketing campaign in these three areas, and provides an easy to digest guide to some of the best tools for the job. A great tool to collect this kind of data is a site called Klout. Broad Social Media Monitoring. Oh, and it’s completely free.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 31, 2011

On May 24, the #MeasurePR chat was a community chat, discussing the reporting side of measurement—how PRs plan for a tool throwing bad numbers, reporting numbers that contradict, and whether Share of Voice (SOV) is a useful or useless PR metric. Klout has been having some issues over the past couple of days, leading C.C.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 25, 2011

Danny Brown presents a solid argument that Klout , a social influence website, should never have created a profile for my friend Naomi without Naomi authorizing its creation. Yet, because she has a Twitter account, Klout assumed she would want a Klout profile — and here it is. Klout is not alone in this backward thinking.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

A potential employer can use a variety of tools to see how well you manage your personal brand online. Run some of the evaluation tools below to determine what somebody sees when they look you up. This is a brand new tool to see how engaged your Facebook page is with your fans. These days however, it can mean a whole lot more.

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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. ” What do you think of this campaign – particularly in comparison to Chevy’s Klout-based campaign for the Chevrolet Sonic ?

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Influencer Social Media Klout Comparison 187

Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

However, finding the right influencer marketing tools can be a major challenge. That’s why we’ve provided a list of tools to help you develop your influencer marketing strategy. Followerwonk (free tool) : This tool by Moz makes it easy to find relevant influencers by topic and location on Twitter. TIME: 11 a.m.

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Net-Savvy Executive

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They continued the discussion after the session, and it's led to a great pair of point/counterpoint posts on using Klout scores: Heidi: Klout: Not Even A Good Starting Point. Justin: Klout: It Does Matter and Here’s Why I like this. Speaking of influence, was there a memo about putting influence startups in Portland?

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 16, 2013

In fact, if you want to keep tabs on your competition, listening is essential, and there are plenty of tools available to help you listen. Klout is an influence monitor. TweetDeck and HootSuite are social media management tools. Learn what’s going on in your niche by listening with these various free online tools.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 7, 2011

Yes, it will give you a list of people who use those keywords most frequently, and they will be ranked on your list based on that frequency, but it’s nothing like a Klout score. I do think that with Klout’s recent introduction of the +K feature , it (Klout) is trying to up its game. Is it possible to game Traackr?

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Do apps like Klout or Twitalyzer really work to automate this? Klout & Critics: Time to Close the Door or Kick it Wide Open? Maybe you’re starting to think that influence is not about how many followers someone has on Twitter. So what is influence, really? Can it be measured (and if so, how)? Or is this all bunk?

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 8, 2011

Those are likely the people who put their Klout score and their Hubspot ranking on their home page and only talk to other people whose Klout score is higher than theirs. I’m not trashing Klout or Hubspot here, I like them, and I think the scores give an idea of how somebody is doing based on their systems.

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