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2 Twitter Tools That Maximize Social Media Impact. Posted by Michelle Mangen on October 20, 2011 · 24 Comments It’s a fact: there are rarely enough hours in the day to get the work you need to do done.

2 Twitter Tools That Maximize Social Media Impact

And adding social media into your marketing mix only makes it more complicated. Turning Social Media Attention Into Income. A few months ago I was let go from my job heading up the social media efforts for Flightster.

Turning Social Media Attention Into Income

I immediately entered panic mode and frantically searched for a job only to realize that living in Costa Rica was going to severely limit my chances of finding anything. So I decided to table my job search and return to the United States. Klout's useless clout. Klout is not all about “Me Myself and I” [Opinion] When Klout changed its algorithm a few weeks ago (the so-called “Kloutapocalypse”, I’m still laughing out loud about that one), it was like Armageddon was upon us.

Klout is not all about “Me Myself and I” [Opinion]

The end of the world. 12 Most Creative Ways To Get A Job With Social Media. When people think of social media in the workplace, it is normally something you stay away from.

12 Most Creative Ways To Get A Job With Social Media

If anything, being on Facebook and Twitter at work is associated with losing your job. A farmer’s life in a digital world « Sean Branagan. George Bernard Shaw, playwright and founder of London School of Economics: "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

A farmer’s life in a digital world « Sean Branagan

" Both my parents gave me a strong work ethic, but I think my mother gave me something special with that work ethic which came from her growing up on a farm in Ireland. She once told me that she can’t really remember her father ever explicitly saying he was “going to work;” mostly because he was almost always working. He was a farmer, carpenter, wheelwright, husband, father, and neighbor – hard to separate and categorize when you have the life of a farmer.

I remember in the early days of the Internet talking to Gerry McGovern, expert in content strategy, about working online. Up early in the morning for conference calls in Europe, up late working on code or talking to a colleague on the West Coast. The Newhouse Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. Funniest Siri iPhone answers. Student Activities Forms. Uniform Project. Top 10 Scariest Marketing Halloween Costumes. 1.

Top 10 Scariest Marketing Halloween Costumes

The Paid Links Buyer If the internet were an election, an inbound link would be like getting a genuine, killer endorsement. Just like paying money for that endorsement would get the ethics committee up in arms, so too does purchasing inbound links. And oh yeah, if you get busted, Google will hack up your site's credibility and ranking like Jason and Freddy. 2. The once proud advertising vehicle has become a drain on marketing budgets. 3. Websites with music and large graphics test visitor patience, not to mention tick off search engines. Need A Last Minute Halloween Costume? Check Out The Fun You Can Have With Two iPad 2s [Video. TweetSheet. Tweetsheet creates a beautiful infographic based on your Twitter activity. If you use Twitter a lot, you know that the service only lets you see so much information about yourself.

Tweetsheet creates a beautiful infographic based on your Twitter activity

Twitter displays your number of tweets, followers, and the people you’re following. Those numbers alone don’t paint a true picture of who you are on Twitter. A service by Vizify called “Tweetsheet” aims to do just that. Unfortunately, since Twitter has slowed down usage of its public APIs, third-party developers haven’t been creating fun things on top of the Twitter platform for some time.

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This Week On Twitter: Social Media Job Screening, Klout Scores & 15 Million For @LadyGaga. Need a little weekend reading?

This Week On Twitter: Social Media Job Screening, Klout Scores & 15 Million For @LadyGaga

We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes how almost all employers now use social media to screen job applicants, where in a tweet you should place your links, why your Klout score is important, how marketers are using Twitter and a new milestone for Twitter as Lady Gaga passes 15 million followers. Here are our top 10 Twitter stories of the week: 1. 91% Of Employers Use Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn To Screen Job Applicants [INFOGRAPHIC] The Pulse - Boston Red Sox (beta) 10 Tools to Significantly Increase Your Twitter Efficiency. Note: A guest post by Leo Widrich (Co-founder of Buffer App) – More details about Leo after the post.

10 Tools to Significantly Increase Your Twitter Efficiency

With recent subscribe function/timeline feature, Facebook seem to jump right into the battle ring with Google+. Yet Twitter continues to be the most important driver of traffic for my personal site and many others too. Handling Twitter efficiently was one of the most important things for me to do, in order to grow, and establish a network. With the help of many tools out there, the Twitter experience is made a lot more fun and meaningful. Here are the top 10 Tools/Apps you might want to check out to step up your Twitter game and significantly increase your efficiency (aka performance). 1. The space of Twitter dashboards is quite crowded, yet Twimbow genuinely brings something new to the table and deserves a proper look. The app gives you a chance to color-code messages from various friends or if they carry certain actions.

What Does “Great Content” Mean, Anyway? How many times have you heard people (including me) rant and rave about the internet marketing benefits of great content?

What Does “Great Content” Mean, Anyway?

A lot, I’m guessing. But how many of those pundits and the practitioners that read them stop to consider, What IS great content? What makes it great? How do you define that? Is it great because the author thinks so? What’s the problem with 700 retweets, 150 Facebook shares and 70 comments? A More Accurate, Transparent Klout Score. A More Accurate, Transparent Klout Score October 26th, 2011 by Ash Rust Today we’re releasing a new scoring model with insights to help you understand changes in your influence.

This project represents the biggest step forward in accuracy, transparency and our technology in Klout’s history. Joe shared the full vision behind these changes in his post last week. Influence is the ability to drive action and is based on quality, not quantity. We are the 5th P: People Brian Solis. InShare299 Part 4 in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual… It seems that adding the word “social” to any category escalates its importance. There’s A Little Steve Jobs In Every One Of Us. In thinking about the passing of Steve Jobs, it’s inspiring to be reminded there's a little Steve in every one of us.

All it takes is a personal decision to pursue a vision that matters to you with his level of unbridled passion and belief. And once that decision is made, never accept the status quo. Alison Phalen. 7 places you should never tweet from. Let’s face it. It’s tough to be a Twitter addict. You find yourself oblivious to the outside world, buried in your phone, iPad or laptop tweeting feverishly. But there are certain places where nobody should tweet from. 10 Principles At Work In Creating Buzz In Social Networking. Last Christmas break was a busy socializing extravaganza with family, friends and business colleagues. There was much wine consumed, gifts given, food eaten and stories told, both tall tales and true. Superficial but interesting conversations were engaged on topics like movies recently watched ..such as “Avatar” and questions such as … “Is it a paradigm shift in the way we watch and consume movies?”

Virtual Fairs Offer Real Jobs. “What the Hashtag is Going On?” – The Power of Hashtags Explained. So you’re getting the hang of Twitter, gaining followers, and maybe excited about what it can offer. Twitter Launches Advertising Blog and Twitter Account. You Might Have Klout, But What’s Your Kred? Reputation on the Internet is a tricky thing to measure.

The Rewards and Pitfalls of Global Social-Media Campaigns. The majority of all Mobile Activity is New Activity ~ Bill Ha.