Dear Auto-dmer's, See her? A few moments ago she was flitting about petting butterflies in my garden. Now she is dead. I hope you're happy. You see, every time I get an auto dm on twitter asking me to like someone's FB page, a fairy falls over dead. Your DM's annoy me so much that a fairy has to leave her peaceful flower garden to sprinkle me with pixie dust so that I don't reach through my laptop and punch you in the throat. In her gallant effort to rush here to save your throat, she invariably suffers heart failure and falls to the ground dead shortly after. And for what? REALLY? Do people actually rush over to facebook and follow you? Do you get responses like: Oh, thank goodness, I was looking all over facebook for a link to like you & could only find your twitter account! or If I follow you on facebook, can I please get more spam messages like this? or I know we just met but I can tell in your last 140 characters you feel the connection too. Let's FB chat! Cause I am kinda thinking you don't. Or if you do, you may want to look into places that provide bulk restraining orders. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and hope that somewhere in some ...
Triberr-Blog Sharing on Steroids?
Last week my friend @lucretiapruitt clued me in, as is usually the case, about a great new reach multiplying tool I needed to know about- Triberr. I spent the better part of this am checking it out and figuring out what it is about and why I should care. As this moves more out of beta and into the mainstream you are likely to start getting twitter dm's asking you to join a triberr tribe. So consider this your heads up-a quick and dirty explanation of what this is all about. What is Triberr: What is Triberr? Simply put it is a way to have your blog post links retweeted via twitter Who retweets my links? People in your tribe. Who is in my tribe? You start off in a tribe of the person who invited you. It's up to them who is in the group. Can I make my own tribe? Once you are invited into a tribe you can then create 3 other tribes that you lead. How many people are in a tribe? The default is 7 (free) but the tribe leader can expand the group by paying 'bones'-triberr currency (which you can earn or buy through paypal) Do I have to retweet other peoples links? Yes. That is how the love gets spread. You can set your mode to not auto tweet your tribal stream if you are the ...
Klout: What Is It? And Why Should You Care?
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 ...