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Klout Now Measures 10 Social Media Websites For Influence

Small Business Mavericks

I recently noticed that the service has added several other social media services to its metrics, which increases its value a hundred-fold (though I’d still say it’s overly weighted toward Twitter). Which social media websites would you like to see measured by Klout? Klout just keeps getting better.

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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. Image via CrunchBase.

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Did Google Just Kill Email?

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, from January 2012: "Google has the power (and ability) to make Google+ (and everything being shared within it) the underlying social platform within all of its many applications ( Android , Gmail , Google Docs , Picasa , Google Maps , Google News , YouTube , etc.). Everything is social. social layer. social media.

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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

Using Google’s photo sharing service, Picasa, you can share your photos and have unlimited space to store them, increasing your ability to share through Google+. Google Maps and Google Places are tied to Google+ so you have a built-in local component to the service as well. This ability will actually get better over time.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

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According to Jeremy Williams , social media director for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (and my boss when I do travel writing for IOTD), blog posts with photos get more traffic than blog posts without. According to Jeremy Williams, you all should be going crazy over this blog post now.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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Let's say that you are the Montreal café that earned the prestigious first position in the natural search results from Google, but everyone in that searcher's social graph is hanging out in another café (or making other recommendations), where do you think that leaves your business? online social networking. social graph.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

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My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Kissing Cousins: Search and Social Media. Categorizing and cataloguing the vast World Wide Web has been the white whale of computer scientists for decades.

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