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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). In all, Klout is now measuring your influence across ten different social networks. What about you?

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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. Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content.

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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. There is actually more than one reason. Google+ has an awesome video chat feature called Hangouts.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). This new social integration means a whole lot for businesses. It's time to pay attention to Google+. This takes Googling yourself to a whole other level, doesn't it? right at that very moment.

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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. Put these on YouTube and/or Vimeo, embed them in your blog posts, and share them on your social networks as well.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

You can choose and customize between different layouts can be incorporated with other Google services like Feedburner, Picasa etc. It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. Yet, it is easy to use and you are allowed to change the html for free.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. 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. Google Buzz.

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