Klout is a company that measures your influence across the social networking platforms of twitter, facebook, and recently added, linkedin. The official description from their site is: The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score. Measuring social influence is not something new. Grader and plenty of others have been doing it for a long time. So, what is the big deal about Klout?The big deal is that it has quickly become the social media score lots of companies care about.What does that really mean? It means that your score could play an important role in your ability to be a part of campaigns, sell ad space, or even get noticed through customer service.There is a lot of backroom shop talk about how Klout is being used. It is becoming widely known that big hotel chains use it to decide if you are worthy of an upgrade. There are stories of people being moved to large suites and penthouses simply by mentioning their score. There ...
Will Be Moving Everything Over
I will be moving lots of things over from Elementary Spirits over the next few weeks. :) ...
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I started coding in the 4th grade on my brand new, first on the block, Commodore 64. Back in the day I spent my summer vacations at computer camp creating endless go-to loops. I am sure most of you have no idea what that even is. Let's just say, I was the kind of little girl that was always buried in a book or playing Pong on the Atari.During the 1990's when Prodigy was new and you could download your email while cooking dinner, I bought myself an HTML for Dummies sort of book. I was getting my Masters in Education. I missed my teaching job at a school for homeless children in Phoenix. I had a toddler and I was pregnant with my second child. In short, I needed something that made sense of the chaos in my life. Something I could control. Code has always been sexy to me in that way. To this day while coding is well into a dimension I can't begin to comprehend, a good "href=" works better than a xanax.That second baby was born and it turns out, with a significant, unexpected birth defect. I turned to a then new innovation for answers: Google. But there wasn't much to find. I dug out that HTML book and used it to put information out there. I figured, I can't be ...