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Gaining Klout: How Your Social Media Score Can Help Build Your Business

Mike Allton — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Klout has become a valuable resource for major brands and businesses looking to maximize their influence through social platforms. Here are some reasons your business should consider using this free online service.

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Did your Klout score go up recently? Thank Instagram and Bing.

Mike Allton — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:00:00 +0000

I keep an eye on my Klout score and watch for major shifts in score, one way or the other. They can sometimes indicate that I’m neglecting a network, or perhaps some of my recent activity is being better received. I recently noticed a 4 point uptick in my score and that is definitely out …

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Klout Brings Influence Measurement to Businesses

Mike Allton — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:00:00 +0000

In an official blog post, Klout has announced that it is open for business(es). According to the announcement, “Businesses will be able to look at an easy-to-read dashboard that tells you, at-a-glance, whether you are engaging your influencers on the networks where they are most actively exerting their influence and on which Klout Score ranges …

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An Insight Into TrustCloud verses Klout to Measure ROI

Mike Allton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:15:35 +0000

Klout (http://www.klout.com) gives people an opportunity to see a full list of their social network interactions—when other people engaged with their written or image content. We can see the results of how each interaction impacts our Klout Score. I have found this very useful to realize the impact of my daily/weekly activates with Social Media and …

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Klout Scores Now Include Facebook Pages

Mike Allton — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Klout, the Social Media Measurement score and website, now factors Facebook Pages into each users score. Mashable reported that, “The new feature allows you to connect your brand or organization’s page to your Klout account and then have activity for that page help grow your Klout score.” For many Klout users, this addition has been …

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LinkedIn Takes a Page from Klout

Mike Allton — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:51:35 +0000

If you have a Klout account, you know that each day you are given a set number of K’s which you can use to indicate topics other users are influential in. The giving and receiving of K’s is an activity that generates a lot of user activity and keeps Klout users coming back daily. Now, …

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Klout for iPhone gets an update.

Mike Allton — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:10:11 +0000

Klout released version 1.7 of their iOS mobile app today. This minor update allows users to edit their Klout bio, topics and influencers directly from the app. If you weren’t already using the Klout for iPhone app, you should, as it was already a great tool for monitoring your current Klout Score, as well as …

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The Inside Scoop on Klout Score

Mike Allton — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:41:29 +0000

Klout, the online measurement of your social influence, attempts to analyze and aggregate activity from your social networks to determine how much influence you actually have in social media, and provide you with a Klout Score that may fluctuate daily. How accurate Klout is can be debated, but business owners and people who wish to …

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Klout Revises Metrics

Mike Allton — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:52:47 +0000

Klout, the Social Measurement service, has revised their algorithms again. In the past, this has resulting in widespread confusion and often disdain for the service. Klout purports to analyze a user's social activity and correlate that into a score that can then be compared with other Klout users. Changes to the algorthm have previously resulting in huge changes in a user's score, leaving one to wonder whether or not the score is, or was, accurate at all.

This time, however, things are a little different.

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Klout, Foursquare and Yelp release app updates

Mike Allton — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:00 +0000

The social networks Klout, Foursquare and Yelp all released minor updates to their mobile apps.

Klout for iPhone

Version 1.6

This update includes:

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