Klout Unveils Brand Pages. Klout unleashed Brand Squads, its version of brand pages, into beta on Tuesday with Red Bull as its sole launch partner. The startup — which measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign Klout users scores from 0 to 100 — will gradually roll out more Brand Squads in the coming weeks and months. Each Squad will feature the brand's logo, the list of the top 10 and top 100 influencers about the brand, an activity stream and any brand-specific deals offered through Klout's Perks platform. Top influencers are the users who receive the most +K's within Klout's Topics feature (see gallery below). "The bottom line is that we are creating a place where influencers can be recognized and have an impact on brands," Klout spokeswoman Lynn Fox told Mashable. Companies have had success engaging with consumers and promoting products or services via brand pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.
Now, Klout wants to jump in the game to empower everyday brand advocates. The State of the News Media 2011. Everything to Teach Your Employees About Social Media. Who needs an expensive social media consultant when you can train your employees in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn best practices yourself? This Mindflash infographic breaks down the types of social media users you'll find in your company — the digital native, savvy technologist, reluctant user, digital newby and digital contrarian — and how to approach training each of them. This guide also highlights an important fact: 76% of companies do not have a clearly defined social media policy. Whether or not you have an explicit policy, make sure you're aware of the way everyone in your company represents your brand. What do you think its most important for companies to teach their employees about social media?
Share your best practices in the comments. Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, narvikk. Zuckerberg 'Likes' App That Turns Facebook Into Pinterest. An app that takes the photos from your Facebook News Feed and puts them in a layout strikingly similar to Pinterest got the seal of approval from Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. The Facebook CEO pushed the "Like" button on the Friendsheet Facebook app, which launched in January but is now likely to gain plenty of traction from Zuckerberg's thumbs-up. Nearly 12 million Facebook accounts subscribe to his Facebook Timeline.
The app displays public Facebook photos in small panels, just like popular social bookmarking site Pinterest showcases images on Pinboards. Although Friendsheet resembles Pinterest at first glance, the mastermind behind the app said it was also inspired by Facebook Timeline. "The goal was to take Facebook photos, and turn it into a visual experience while maintaining speed, performance, and a great, intuitive experience," Friendsheet creator Zachary Allia wrote on Facebook. Friendsheet settings allow you to hide photo captions and comments for a more visual experience.
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You would think that at a beautiful beach like Hanauma Bay, Hawaii it would be easy to forget about social media Case in point…try taking a vacation from social media. Believe me, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to check your Facebook feed, especially when you have your phone out to search Google Maps for the closest coffee shop. So, here we go: 1) Turn off the email sync to your phone – If you’re like me, you get bombarded with emails from different social networks. 8 ) Ask the locals – Want to find the best places to eat and visit?
Cheers! –Sean. ConnecTV social companion beta launches for iPad, PC and Mac (hands-on) ConnecTV Launches Most Comprehensive Social TV Service into Open Public Beta Social Platform to Offer Companion Content for More Than 250 National Channels; Soon Rolling Out Exclusive Content to More Than 200 Local Affiliates and 26 Regional Sports Networks Custom Content for Sunday's BIG GAME Showcases Live Play by Play Stats, Deep Social Integration, MVP and Best Ad Voting and More! EMERYVILLE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--ConnecTV, the most comprehensive social platform for all TV fans, opens its doors to the public today so viewers can share every "Did you see that! " television moment from the world of sports, news, drama and reality programming - live or time-shifted - in a unique companion viewing experience. ConnecTV is available today in the Apple App store: ConnecTV's social platform lets users instantly see what their friends are watching and share their favorite TV moments with a single touch.
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About OscarsTech Videos About Technology Videos about how-to do stuff on your website, and Social media. Mike Bowler Sr Twitter | Mike Bowler Sr Trending. Klout CEO Joe Fernandez Responds to Critics. A week ago I wrote a post here called “Delete Your Klout Profile Now!” So far more than 10,000 people have read it here and another 2,000 on my blog Take5Interactive. It’s been shared and re-tweeted more than 2,200 times. More important, several other bloggers and journalists have come out with posts and articles critical of Klout’s business model and privacy policies, including the New York Times. My post against Klout was not a work of balanced journalism—it was a passionate editorial.
I do consider myself a blogger-journalist and most of my focus is on researching, interviewing and presenting new ideas about customer experience on the social Internet. In the spirit of fairness I asked Klout CEO Joe Fernandez if he would be willing to answer questions. “Skeptical” was his response, but he gave it a go. I said I would submit a list of questions and I promised that I would run his responses verbatim. Here are my questions and Fernandez' answers: A: It's an interesting paradox with Klout. Why I Think Empire Avenue is a Winner. When Scott Monty sent me an invite to play Empire Avenue, the social media world’s hot-product-du-jour, I groaned.
Why do I need another distraction to distract me from all my other social media distractions, I asked him. He answered with tweeting brevity. “It’s fun,” he said. “It does what Klout is supposed to do, but we rate our own friends. Both statements interested me. We can never overrate the value of fun. So I took a quick look at Empire Avenue. Empire Avenue, is modeled after Wall Street. Right now it’s easy, fun and everyone seems to be making money, um…eaves. But I do think that it shows the street creds of people in social media, and your stock score says what people think of you while your Klout score shows the result of computer-based data analysis.
Look someone up on Klout and you see a screen filled with boxes and numbers. You don’t have to get as analytical as I have been doing over at Empire Avenue. The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of Twitter and social media.
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In fact we were just creating a product for ourselves but as it seemed many people liked it. The experience was fantastic. We’ve failed. And failure was fantastic too. But finally we understood that we had to stop chasing this vision. Below are the main reasons we finally shut down the service: 1. Keeping a team of great talented people requires money. 2. Since the last years an observer of the big social media players can see that all the openness that created monsters like Twitter and Facebook is fading away. Suits now need money so everyone is closing their platform in order to make some. 3. It was a fantastic journey. Wjchat. Pro Tip: Use Bit.ly to View Your Competition’s Twitter and Facebook Reach. Stepping away from strictly SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for a moment, I want to take a few minutes to share an idea with all of you that you may not be aware of. If you use bit.ly to shorten a URL, you can then take that shortened URL and gather some quick and potentially useful metrics from it.
Try the following steps: 1 - Visit bit.ly. 2 - In the box, enter the URL you are interested in discovering information about (such as an article from a competitor's Web site or an article you wrote last month), then press "Enter" or click "Shorten. " 3 - Copy your freshly-shortened link (it will look similar to "Example A" below), paste it into the address bar of your browser (the place where you would manually enter a URL to visit), then add a + (that's a plus sign) onto the end of it (to make it look like "Example B" below) and hit enter.
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Change your profile image Your Facebook profile image is the first thing potential fans see when they on the arrive on the page. 2. Instead of a long URL like 3. Facebook Markup Language or FBML allows developers to add custom HTML or CSS to their Facebook page. 4. No man is an island and a Facebook Page shouldn’t be either. 5. A common mistake many news organizations who use Facebook make is they post articles or pose questions to their fans but don’t interact or respond to them. 6. There are many different third-party apps that you can use to enhance your Facebook page and better interact with your audience. 7. Twitter / Home. Ryanjz.