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Monday, Nov. 21: Beef stew, salad, coleslaw, yogurt, assorted fruit, roll.
Tuesday, Nov. 22: Baked ham, pinto beans, greens, pineapple delight, cornbread.
Wednesday, Nov. 23: Roasted turkey, green beans w/almonds, mashed potatoes, cranberry dressing, cornbread dressing, gravy, no-bake pumpkin pie.
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Brian and Amanda Johnson of 429 West Texas Lane, Springfield, announce the birth of a 6-pound, 2.5-ounce daughter, Abigail Rose, born July 6, 2011, at Spring View Hospital, Lebanon.
Maternal grandparents are Lee Talley of Lebanon and the late Randy Talley. Paternal grandparents are David and Patsy Johnson of Springfield.
Great-Grandparents are Jeanette Montgomery, the late Dudley Montgomery, Martha Vize, the late Joe Vize, the late Vernon and Evelyn Talley and the late Charlie and Mary Johnson.
Abigail Rose has a sister, Brianna.
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The Marion County High School Class of 1996 will hold a 15-year NON reunion at Prime Lounge, 104 West Main St., Louisville, from 9 p.m. until 4 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. Admission is free. No food will be served.
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On Friday, Nov. 11, St. Catharine College was supported by members of Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, Kentucky Army National Guard from Bardstown in commemorating its 6th Annual Military Appreciation Day.
The ceremony, marking the 92nd anniversary of Armistice Day, was a tribute to Kentucky's fallen warriors with a special tribute to those of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The following West Marion Elementary students earned the honor rolls for the first nine weeks of the 2011-2012 school year.
• Third grade - Landon Cambron, Eli Durham, Zachary Essex, Amber Farris, Brennan Hamilton, J.T. Lee, Brice Pirkle, Lauren Thomas and Samuel Thompson.
If conditions are obvious the night before that the weather will not allow for school the next day, then school officials will make the cancellation call that night by 9 p.m. Often this is not the case, so district transportation staff begin checking the roads at 3:30 a.m. the next morning. School officials also make contact with local road crews, as well as the police department, to pinpoint local trouble areas.
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Several residents of local areas participated in an acting and audition workshop this afternoon.
Alvin Moore Jr, who is pastor of Greater Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church held that workshop to better help others find the spirit of acting within themselves. Moore has worked with actors and actresses such as Ruben Studdard, Golden Brooks, and Darius McCrary, and he says he hopes bring some talent here to Meridian.
"I came to Meridian to just pastor a church, but while I'm here I also figured that I wanted to create a culture of theater here, inspirational dramas, gospel dramas, and so on," Moore said.
For more information about Alvin Moore and his production company, you can visit his website at AlvinMooreEntertainment.com
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I know that 511 divided by 512 actually equals 0.998046875. I also know that the precision of floats is 7 digits. My question is, when I do this math in C++ (GCC) the result I get is 0.998047, which is a rounded value. I'd prefer to just get the truncated value of 0.998046, how can I do that?
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I get this popup with every 3rd or 4th click only within CF.
Is anyone else getting this? I usually only use my Android.
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I get this popup with every 3rd or 4th click only within CF.
Is anyone else getting this? I usually only use my Android.
Yes, only I get redirected to
I've searched online and not found much. I've gotten it on an android device and an Ipod touch via wifi (as a test).
Annoying or AWESOME that you won?
I get it alot as well. Have had other times that I get automatically redirected to another site as well. Has happened on my Android phone and wifes work IPad.
I didn't know if it was Sprint or Android related.
Android on Verizon for me
I don't do signatures. Blondes, brunettes, and red heads are a different story.
I get this too. Android Verizon- 2 week old Droid Razr Maxx. Factory wiped my old Droid X and tested it on CF, got the pop up, and since I had location services and my GPS turned on it even customized it to my town. Now I'm having issues with the forums on my IPad as well.
I don't get it so obviously you won. Take the prize, you fool!
I noticed that I'm lucky enough to get the popup too. I have very recently factory reset my Droid X (Verizon) like CycloneChris. Stupid fake prizes.
Glad to hear I am not the only one. I have been using the Dolphin browser on Android with pop ups turned off but it does not help. I usually have to close the browser and then go back to CF. I definitely makes me come here less on my phone than I would otherwise.
I've get that popup occasionally when trying to view CF on my Android (US Cellular). It is really annoying.
Even my nook color gets it off CF. Then it makes it hard to back out of it as the screen is controlled. I have won five or six times now.
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Why Aren't Men Punching Back?
Since getting an MBA in the early 1990s and working at a series of corporate marketing jobs, I've found a new persona: the aggressive woman.
Without consciously realizing it, I act far more aggressively at work than I've ever been socially, in school, or in my relationship with my husband. And more aggressively than my male colleagues. For 15 years, it's worked for me to negotiate promotions boldy, barge my way into important meetings, propose radical cost-cutting solutions, and invite myself to lunch with executives 3-4 levels above my rank.
Simply put, for my post-Title IX generation it seems acceptable to be driven, ambitious, goal-oriented and competitive at work – without fear of backlash from men in the office. At work, I've found women can be pitbulls without being accused of being bitches (with my apologies for the unfortunate dog analogy). And I gotta say, it's been exciting – as a girlie-girl growing up, I always wondered what it was like to rule the playground. And I've found the thrills far more intense when the rewards are stock options and fascinating challenges, versus first pick of kickball teams.
Last Sunday's Washington Post argued the same point in Boxed Into a Corner, Men Can't Punch Back
"Boys still aren't supposed to hit girls. Even if it's the girl who starts the fight…The idea of getting ferocious with a woman has been fraught with anxiety and over-analysis…The idea that a woman can be tough, ruthless or just plain mean comes as a kind of head-scratching revelation, especially to men…The reality is that women can deliver a straight-up beatdown…There is significant evidence that women are fighting more like men – and men don't know how to respond."
The context prompting this analysis is Barack Obama and Joe Biden's delicate posturing when faced with Sarah Palin's attacks. The men are clearly afraid of coming off as bullies, or sexist, or ungentlemanly – fears that Palin takes full advantage of by talking trash, calling her opponents names, pointing both fingers in the air and staring boldly into the camera like the alpha-dog leading the pack. Men's fears of responding to aggressive women also extend to corporate board meetings, television, the hip hop music industry, and the worlds of journalism, academia and entertainment, where women "get away" with being as aggressive as men (or more so). We live in an era thick with tomboys -- Carly Fiorina, Tyra Banks, Arianna Huffington, Tina Brown, Laila Ali, Naomi Wolf, Judith Regan, Cathy Black, Madonna. These women throw punches at men and get away with it nearly every time.
What do you see? Are you more outgoing and aggressive at work? Do you see women succeeding – or failing – in our attempts to compete with men? Do you think the Sarah Palin style of aggression is a passing phase, or a permanent change in women's socialization?
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Vera -- Totally hear you. I wonder too -- is the pendulum swinging back to a time when women are automatically respected, instead of disrespected, because of our gender, beauty, wisdom and power?
And I hear you on TB,AF, etc. They are not mannish in any way -- but they sure are audacious!
I hope we can meet someday soon. I have read your book, your column here. I love reading everything you write.
I don't know why men aren't punching back. Perhaps we are entering an era where men are staying quiet and afraid to speak and we WOMEN taking over.
But I am not sure if we should still call women like Tyra Banks, Arianna Huffington, tomboys. Why are we still associating tough women with being boyish or man-like?


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I am writing integration tests for a Rails application using Watir and RSpec. What is the best way to set up data in the database that spans each test? For instance, I have the same user I want to use across a suite of tests. How can I seed that common data (e.g. user) before all the tests run and then clean it up for the next suite of tests?
Generally having some global data for tests is a bad idea and might introduce dependencies within tests (which is always a bad idea). To avoid that, each test should generate the data it needs for itself and not rely on some globally inserted data.
If you're using RSpec then it does some of the job for you (it even runs your tests in a random order to avoid dependencies) - it creates a database savepoint before running the test and rollbacks all the changes done by the test. Ideally this means that test database is empty before test runs and it will be empty after test has been run.
In Rails you could use Rails own fixtures to seed the needed data or use some third party gem like FactoryGirl.
Again, do not create any global data, which will be used by all tests because sooner or later this will come back to haunt you.
I believe Jeff talks about that in "Using the database" chapter of Cucumber & Cheese book.


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The future of two utility regulators depends upon their vote in a proposed $1.3 billion Florida Power & Light Co. rate hike, Gov. Charlie Crist said this morning.Crist has until Oct. 1 to reappoint two commissioners – Chairman Matthew Carter and Katrina McMurrian – whose terms expire Jan. 1. Crist said he wants them to just say no to the Juno Beach-based utility.
"Let's see what the commissioners want to do. Then I can have a better handle on who to appoint or reappoint," Crist told reporters this morning.
A reporter asked Crist if he heard the governor correctly – that the commissioners' vote would affect their appointments.
"You did," Crist answered. "I think it would be nice to reject the increase. I'm trying to appoint members that would be sympathetic to the people and the economic challenge that they're facing. So that's a factor."
Sen. Mike Fasano on Friday asked Carter, appointed to the panel by Gov. Jeb Bush, to indefinitely delay the FPL hearing and a $500 million Progress Energy Florida rate case until a storm of controversies surrounding the regulatory panel clears.
Crist disagreed.
"I don't know why we should postpone it," he said.
Carter said this morning that he hadn't seen Fasano's letter because he was on bed rest Friday recuperating from two back surgeries earlier this year.
Fasano wants to hold off on the hearings until a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation and possible Senate hearings looking into the relationships between commissioners and their staff and the utilities they oversee are complete. Commissioner Nancy Argenziano has also requested a grand jury investigation into the agency and how it operates.
The PSC's lobbyist Ryder Rudd resigned after an internal investigation into his attendance at FPL VP Ed Tancer's Kentucky Derby party at his Palm Beach Gardens home.
One aide was fired and two others were suspended after it was learned that they had shared their secret Blackberry PIN codes with an FPL attorney.
Carter last week banned the use of Blackberry PINs and other forms of communication that don't create a public record.
But this morning he claimed ignorance about how to handle the technology that is part of the telecommunications industry that he regulates.
"I don't know. I really don't know. I mean, I'm an old school guy. I don't do a lot of the modern technology stuff so I really don't know. I guess the technology people probably could answer that about pinning, and blogging and YouTube," Carter told reporters at a separate event.
Carter said this morning he was unaware of any misconduct by the PSC.
"I don't personally know of any wrongdoing or any violation of law or anything," Carter said.
McMurrian late Friday proposed that all communications between PSC commissioners and staff and utilities be put in writing and posted on the PSC's web page.


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A. J. Belloco, a music student at Syosset High School, plays with the Marine Corps Jazz Ensemble on March 3 at Syosset High School. The Marine Corps Jazz Ensemble is performing at several high schools and universities in the Greater New York City and Boston areas with exceptional music programs to promote the Corps' Musician Enlistment Option Program.
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Date: February 20 2013
ADELAIDE: Half-centuries to Tim Ludeman and Jake Brown helped South Australia bank innings points against NSW in the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.
The Redbacks were 8-197 at lunch on Wednesday's second day, some 40 runs ahead of the Blues.
Brown and Ludeman put on a 120-run partnership to rescue South Australia from a perilous 5-51.
Brown compiled 65 in his first game in four years while Ludeman made 60.
The pair took South Australia beyond the Blues' first innings of 157 despite the best efforts of pacemen Trent Copeland (4-50) and Doug Bollinger (4-62).
Copeland ended the lengthy Redback partnership when Brown nicked a wide ball and was smartly caught low down by wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.
Just 11 runs later, Bollinger dismissed Ludeman, who edged to Copeland at first slip.
And the left-arm paceman soon struck again when Redbacks skipper Johan Botha (15) attempted a drive but got a faint edge to Haddin.
South Australia's two points for an innings lead took them to 20 points on the Shield table, two behind second-placed Queensland and four adrift of competition leaders Victoria.
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It was very different looking MY:UK team that turned out a Waterwells to face the boys in the latest league encounter, some of whom were one or two years older than our boys!
From the kick-off it was clear that the physical size of the MY:UK midfield would make for a tough game. However, the boy's superior technical ability and team play was shining through, with Snakey and Ben controlling the middle of the park. A few early chances were created but the visiting keeper saved well. It took until the 20th minute for the deadlock to be broken when the ball fell to Snakey on the edge of the box and he wrong footed his marker and fired home. Less than a minute later a well worked move from defence to attack put Sean through on goal and he slipped the ball past the on rushing keeper to make it 2-0. Then from a mix up at a throw-in on half way the MY:UK big midfielder powered through on goal and as he round Ryan he was upended, leaving the Referee no choice but to point to the spot. The penalty was converted to make the half-time score 2-1.
With the boys recognising a few players from older years at School it seemed to fire the boys up and they came out for the 2nd half and dominated the game. More chances should have been converted with Simmo being denied on three or four occasions, and then a great strike from Snakey smashed against the bar. It looked as though Simmo had extended the lead once again, but after a consultation with the linesman the Referee disallowed the goal. However, it wasn't long before the lead was extended when we were awarded a penalty for after an MY:UK defender handled in the box. Up stepped Jimmy and tucked the ball in to the net.
It was a good work out for the boys and with the addition of some overage players, whilst totally against the rules, it did make it a more competitive game.
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Beyond the Roll-Call Arena: The Determinants of Position Taking in Congress
Highton, Benjamin, Rocca, Michael S., Political Research Quarterly
Most analyses of position taking in Congress focus on roll-call voting, where members of Congress (MCs) regularly cast votes, thereby regularly taking positions. Left largely unstudied has been position taking beyond the domain of rollcall voting. However, analyzing non-roll-call position taking raises interesting theoretical questions. Whereas most members cannot avoid taking positions (casting votes) on roll calls, outside the roll-call arena MCs have more discretion; they must decide whether or not to take a position at all. And, while roll-call voting is directly tied to policy consequences, the connection is weaker in non-roll-call position taking. These two distinguishing features of non-roll-call position taking motivate a variety of hypotheses about who takes positions and what positions they take. Our results reveal strong constituency links to both phenomena. The results also imply that party influence is greater on roll-call position taking. We interpret these findings in the context of leading theories of congressional behavior.
In his seminal work on legislative behavior in the U.S. Congress Mayhew (1974: 49) defined position taking as "the public enunciation of a judgmental statement on anything likely to be of interest to political actors." The significance of position taking derives in large part from the observation that "politicians often get rewarded for taking positions rather than achieving effects" (Mayhew 2001: 51). Of course the primary rewards most politicians seek are election and reelection. Therefore, attention is naturally drawn to the relationship between the positions members of Congress take and the preferences of their constituents. Understanding the nature of this dyadic relationship is also important because it bears directly on questions of representation, which are of longstanding concern to democratic theorists.
To date, most empirical analyses of position taking in Congress focus on roll-call voting, where members of Congress (MCs) regularly cast votes, thereby regularly taking positions. Beginning with Miller and Stokes (1963), a large literature has developed to understand the nature of the connection between legislators' roll-call votes and the opinions and preferences of their constituencies.1 Left largely unstudied has been position taking outside the domain of roll-call voting. And, to the extent that this has been studied, the emphasis has generally been on non-electoral factors. In this article, we suggest that although non-roll-call position taking is difficult to analyze systematically, shifting from an exclusive roll-call focus is important because a large amount ol MC position taking does not occur through roll-call votes.
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we analyze the conditions under which members take non-roll-call positions. The motivation for this analysis is the observation that some members of Congress take positions on particular issues while others do not. We argue and provide evidence that whether a legislator takes a position depends in important ways on the nature of constituency opinion, specifically its heterogeneity, extremity, and alignment with a members own preferences.
Second, we examine the positions that MCs take and suggest that because non-roll-call position taking is not directly linked to policy effects, parties are less interested in exerting influence over it. This comparatively weaker party link represents another important difference between roll-call and non-roll-call position taking behavior. Our results support this notion, indicating that party differences are less pronounced and smaller in comparison to constituency influences outside the roll-call arena.
In the following sections, we formulate and test a series of hypotheses derived from theory and previous research. We focus on position taking regarding abortion policy in the 101st Congress. This decision was guided by theoretical and empirical considerations, which we explain below. …


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The two biggest hits of the night came from two players whose nights began in frustration. Facing hard-throwing Cubs right-hander Jeff Samardzija, Jason Kubel and Paul Goldschmidt combined to go 0 for 6 with five strikeouts in the first six innings.
But there was Kubel drilling a bases-clearing double into left-center field to give the Diamondbacks a short-lived lead in the top of the seventh inning. And one inning later, there was Goldschmidt destroying a Carlos Marmol slider for his first career grand slam, a shot that propelled the Diamondbacks to a 12-4 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
Both were able to put aside their failures and ultimately come through when their team needed them most.
"I was talking to Goldy about that on the bench and I was talking to Kubel about it before his big at-bat," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. "You've just got to move on from that, you can't get discouraged by what's happened so far. …
"You're there, you're striking out, the fans are yelling at you, you're disappointed that you're letting your team down. But it's just a great feeling when you come through."
Kubel said it sometimes is nice to hear encouraging words when you're in the middle of a rough game.
"(Gibson) always tells guys that it doesn't matter what you've done," Kubel said. "Today, I was 0 for 2 with two strikeouts. He'll say, 'Don't worry about it. It happens. You can still have an opportunity to win the game or make something happen.' Sure enough, I did. It's hard to stay positive but you've just got to try to do it."
Said Goldschmidt: "It can be (hard). You just try to forget about that because it's in the past. It's something you deal with through experience. You're always trying to make adjustments. Luckily, I was able to have that fourth AB where I walked and was able to stay positive and have a good at-bat there."
The other day, I wrote a note in the paper about how far Goldschmidt plays off the first base bag, and how many times he seems to take hits away in the hole between first and second base.
He did it again on Saturday, making a play on what might normally be a single on a ball that Starlin Castro shot toward the hole.
Anyway, here are a couple of screen grabs on balls Goldschmidt has fielded over the past couple of weeks. Look how far off the bag he is on these plays.
On his way off the field between innings on Saturday night, Samardzija appeared to exchange words with Diamondbacks third base coach Matt Williams.
Williams was asked after the game what it was about.
"He said, 'What are you looking at?' I told him, 'I'm not looking at you,'" Williams said. "I have no respect for him showing somebody up on the field. … I didn't say a word to him and I don't have any respect for that."
Some minor league notes passed along from Diamondbacks baseball ops assistant TJ Lasita:
*South Bend's 35 victories are tied for the third-most in all of minor league baseball.
*Triple-A Reno SS Chris Owings has hit in 19-straight games, the longest active hitting streak in all of professional baseball.
*Owings has 84 hits on the season, three more than any other batter in pro baseball (Miguel Cabrera is second with 81).
*Low-A South Bend LHP Daniel Watts is tied for second among all minor leaguers with seven wins.
*Double-A Mobile RHP Archie Bradley's combined 1.01 ERA is second-best in the minors. He's gone 4-1 with a 0.79 ERA in six starts since being promoted to Mobile on May 2.
*Triple-A Reno LHP Joe Paterson didn't allow a run in 11 appearances in May. Over 11 innings in the month, he carried a 0.64 WHIP and opponents batted .118 off him.
*Low-A South Bend RHP R.J. Hively's 14 saves are tied for second-most among all minor league pitchers.
*Bradley's 80 strikeouts are tied for second in the minors.
*Hively didn't allow an earned run in May and was 8-for-8 in save chances.
Farm report
Triple-A Reno: SS Chris Owings had three hits, as did LF Juan Rivera, but RHPs Garrett Mock and Bryan Henry did not fare well against Las Vegas on Thursday. Then on Friday, RHP Charles Brewer gave up seven runs in 4 2/3 innings in another loss. Owings had another three-hit game, raising his average to .342.
Double-A Mobile: The BayBears got Puiged on Thursday, as CF Yasiel Puig had three hits, including a double and a ninth-inning triple that led to the go-ahead run in a win for Chattanooga. RHP Michael Bolsinger was awesome on Friday, throwing a two-hit shutout for the first complete game of his career. He's having a nice season.
High-A Visalia: The Rawhide did not have a good day in Lancaster on Thursday, but they bounced back and won a slugfest on Friday, with 3B Jake Lamb connecting for his eighth homer of the year.
Low-A South Bend: South Bend was held to just three hits in a shutout loss to the Dayton Dragons, who roughed up LHP Daniel Watts on Thursday. The Silver Hawks scored eight times in the eighth and ninth innings on Friday, as 3B Brandon Drury hit a grand slam in the top of the ninth. The South Bend bullpen combined for five scoreless innings.
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Walmart Keeps Adam Richman Onboard After Instagram Meltdown
"We don't have anything to share at this time," the chain says.
Earlier this week, the Travel Channel postponed the premiere of former Man v. Food host Adam Richman's new show, following an incident in which he cursed-out critics on Instagram and suggested that one commit suicide. The melee began after Richman, who recently lost weight, used the controversial hashtag #thinspiration in a self-congratulatory photo caption. Richman has been the face of Walmart's steak and ground beef line since this spring, doling out meat-centric advice in a bunch of 15-second videos, which are still running on YouTube and over the air as of yesterday, on the eve of one of the year's biggest grill-centric holidays. "We don't have anything to share at this time," Walmart says through a spokesperson. [AdAge, Related]


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Gen. Robert Cone, speaking in Washington before the opening ceremony of the Association's Annual Meeting and Exposition the next day, said the Army Force Generation Model, used to supply units to Afghanistan and Iraq over the last 11 years, is about to release volumes of new doctrine on how it fights, trains and equips the force.
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Hurley Medical Center CEO knows firsthand the power of a Kettering University education
"As community partners, we need to hold hands on things."
As technology helps the fields of engineering and medicine intertwine more productively, it's interesting to see there is still room for a good, old-fashioned gut feeling. At least, that's true when the feeling belongs to Melany Gavulic '91.
Gavulic is president and Chief Executive Officer of Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. Hurley is the region's largest "safety net" hospital – that rare humanitarian enterprise that still accepts patients whether they can pay or not.
Gavulic was born, raised and educated locally. She earned a bachelor's degree in Management Systems at Kettering University, a Registered Nurse degree at Mott Community College and a master's degree at Baker College, all in Flint.
She would often glance at Kettering's brick buildings from Hurley, only about a mile away and viewable from each of the large institutions front doors.
"I couldn't stomach the thought of having that much talent a few blocks away and Hurley not being in a partnership to the benefit of both," she said. "As community partners, we need to hold hands on things."
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"I knew there would be different ways we could partner with Kettering, we just needed the right course of action," Gavulic said. "We knew the problems -- a brand new $40 million electronic medical records system that few knew how to implement; an aging workforce with varying comfort levels using technology; and Hurley's ongoing need to find and attract new medical talent for the important ongoing work at our hospital."
She said the high-powered synergy began with her conversation with Drs. Atkinson and Seeley.
"They were looking for relevant co-op experiences for students in Kettering's premed track. I told them about our need to implement the new electronic medical records system. It was a perfect solution for us and a huge opportunity for the premed students," Gavulic said. "The thought of having such high caliber individuals working in this capacity watching for themes, identifying problem patterns and offering solutions was ideal. In the meantime, students are able to have continuous exposure to what life is like in a hospital - an ideal partnership was born. What a great way to use the Kettering talent. In fact, our next venture should be with the engineering students identifying the patient room furniture or equipment of the future. The possibilities are endless."
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A guide to free and easy influencer research tools
Aug 11th
A few months ago I was at a huge tech industry conference. A sponsoring company had a massive LED "leaderboard" showing the leading influencers tweeting about the conference.
There were a few people who I recognized but quite a few I didn't. I asked the administrator what constituted an "influencer" by their definition and the woman told me "number of Twitter followers."
At this point, please insert a mental image of Mark Schaefer as a cartoon character that just drank a gallon of hot sauce. You know, steam out the ears, eyes popping out on springs … that sort of thing. I was embarassed for this Fortune 500 company that equates Twitter followers with influence. That is so 2011.
Today we need more than that, right? Problem is, for cheapskates like me it's getting harder and harder to find free tools to use. As influence marketing has gotten hotter, the prices have gone up on great platforms like Traakr and Appinions which don't even offer free trials any more.
So here are a few work-arounds for people trying to get a handle on influence marketing on the cheap.
Free influencer research tools
1. Fake Guru Sniffer
Let's go back to the tech industry conference.
There was one "influencer" who looked kind of suspicious to me. He had more than 300,000 Twitter followers and I had never heard of the guy before, I know how long it takes to build a real Twitter following and I was suspicious that this guy was a fake.
There's a handy tool to check for fake gurus from our friends at SocialBakers. It has the not-too-creative name of Fake Follower Check but it's free so who am I to complain? If you are vetting people for an influencer program, this can be a useful first step to check their credibility.
Do they really have reach … or did they (gasp) buy their Twitter followers to just look like a big deal? My Fake Follower score is 98%, which means that only 2% of my followers are inactive or suspicious accounts. This reflects the effort I put into building an authentic Twitter audience. When I put Mr. Suspicious in this box, he had a score of 64%. Just as I thought. He bought his followers to try to LOOK like he had authority. Connecting with him would be a waste of money for your brand.
2. An indicator that people listen to you
There was something else quite strange about Mr. Suspicious. He had all those followers but was only on 74 Twitter Lists.
This is a very important metric because you might be able to fake your followers but it's very difficult to fake your way on to Twitter Lists. When somebody puts you on a list, this means the follower is at least savvy enough to use lists and cares enough about what you're saying to highlight your content.
So a really good shortcut to determine somebody's potential impact is to look at the ratio of lists to followers. But there's one little snag in our plan. When Twitter went through their overhaul last year, for some crazy reason they eliminated the number that shows how many times you've been listed! So we need a work-around.
To easily see how many lists a person is on, you're going to need the free version of Tweetdeck. Click on your name in a tweet and a little profile box pops up. This is the ONLY place I know of to easily see how many lists a person is on!
So about 8 percent of my followers think enough of me to put me on a list. For Mr. Suspicious, this ratio is like 2 hundredths of a percent. That makes sense — as we already saw, a large percentage of his followers are fake.
3. An engagement monitor
With our first two tools we have established that a potential influencer has a real audience and people are paying attention to them.
Our next tool will show you a bit about their engagement levels. Are they just posting links or are they really engaging with folks? Are people actually reacting to their content?
Let's now turn to TwtrLand.com. Although they have a paid version (starting at $19.99), you can see enough on the free edition to learn how communicative the person is and also get an idea of who they are having conversations with. Are they engaged with your ultimate target market? This tool is a high-level indicator.
4. Influence by topic
You're probably going to want to dive down a little deeper now and find certain influencers by topic. There are not a lot of totally free and comprehensive tools I know of to do this but here are some hacks:
Kred allows you to search influencers by hashtag. So you can look for people in the #travel industry for example and you will get a leaderboard in return as well as some of the top tweets on that topic (good content source!)
The problem with Kred is that it is very Twitter-centric.
One idea is to combine this Kred output with the data from the free version of NOD3x, which provides insight into data coming from Google+ and YouTube.
A third free tool to look at is BuzzSumo. This application returns the top content in any category by the number of social shares. It takes a little work but you can begin to see patterns of the top authors in certain subject areas.
5. The magic of moving content
Connecting to influencers can be a very powerful marketing strategy but they have to be people who can move content (also known as creating buzz). How can we figure out if somebody can move content better than another?
There is probably no more divisive tool on the web but let's take the emotion of "influence" out of the conversation for a moment and simply look at Klout as relative measure of a person's ability to move content.
For example, Brian Solis with an astronomical Klout score of 84 shows that he can move content better than me, with a score of 76. That makes sense. I blog and am active on the social web so my score is probably higher than many of my students, for example. So Klout isn't perfect but it means something.
Klout has made a lot of changes … some for the better, some for the worse (that is a debate for another time!) … but the core score is stable, it's still FREE and it provides a useful relative comparison. It is a blunt instrument, but sometimes all you need is a blunt instrument as long as you have a realistic perspective of what it is and the limitations.
Well if you are working on influence on the cheap, these free influencer research tools should help you. If you really want to get the inside scoop on social influence marketing fundamentals, you might also enjoy my book Return On Influence. And please let me know in the comment section if there are any cheapskate tools you like to use!
Original illustration for {grow} by Kacy Maxwell, Copyright 2014 Schaefer Marketing Solutions,
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Reflections on social media power and influence
Mar 19th
I wrote my first blog post about Klout about two and a half years ago. At that point, it was little more than another obscure social media start-up fighting for attention. Over the ensuing months, I wrote follow-up posts that criticized Klout and its competitors for some of the embarrassing mistakes they made.
But I grew fascinated by this topic of social influence. How DOES a person become powerful and influential on the Internet — an alternate universe that HATES any form of authority, titles, or rules? The more I studied and thought about this, the more interesting it became. I eventually wrote a book about the subject called Return On Influence, which launched exactly one year ago.
I studied this topic of online influence intensely for a year. I read books, academic research, and white papers. I interviewed more than 70 people ranging from brand managers and mommy bloggers to Dr. Robert Cialdini, arguably the leading expert on influence in the world and the author of the seminal work Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. I got to peek inside Klout (at that point virtually the only game in town) and talk to its customers. And here are the three conclusions I made:
1) This is a historically important time where personal power has been enabled through our ability to publish on the web.
2) The nature of power and influence in the online world is vastly different than what we are accustomed to in the offline world. It's important for businesses and individuals to understand this — your paradigm has to shift.
3) Klout is on to something.
A year later, I'm very proud of the acclaim the book has received from the press, reviewers, and thousands of readers from around the world. I haven't written on the topic of social influence in awhile and I thought I would reflect on what has happened in the field since the book came out.
The good.
Moving the debate along — It has been great to see meaningful debate emerge from the book as people begin to understand the changing nature of influence. There have been some great blog posts examining the potential for corruption of these scores, the difference between advocates and influencers, and creative new ways these tools are being incorporated into traditional marketing. Almost every marketing conference now has some element of social influence discussion on the agenda. Some of the more interesting topics include:
- What are the differences and relationships between advocates, influencers and fans?
- How do we connect influencer outreach initiatives to measurable business gains?
- How can we integrate influencer data into traditional marketing initiatives?
- Now that we can find these legitimate influencers, what do we do with them?
New technical development — A group of new companies has emerged to challenge Klout, the acknowledged market leader. Some of them have been niche knock-offs, but others, like Appinions, offers breath-taking new opportunities for marketing insight and innovation. Appinions digs deep below the surface of mere social media input, leveraging patented Cornell University technology to cull insight from 5 million online sources. Now this is getting interesting!
Stabilization — Klout and its social influence comrades have the unenviable task of scaling fast and iterating in public. Being publicly scored and evaluated pushed a hot button with a lot of people and a rash of PR gaffes seriously hurt the credibility of the genre to the point that people could not get past the damage to rationally assess the potential of the technology. Thankfully a lot of that drama is in the past. Scores have slowly stabilized, scamming has been addressed, and the focus is on progress instead of PR spin. The debate is generally becoming less emotional and more intellectual, although many people are still rolling old tapes.
New commercial development — Nearly all the major social influence programs are finding footing with customers. Klout announced new partnerships with Microsoft and ESPN. Kred has introduced a dizzying array of features that slice and dice scores a dozen different ways. PeerIndex has evolved to become a UK-focused discount shopping site. Appinions is gaining ground with a subscription model. Almost every PR, advertising, and marketing firm is trying figure out how these useful new tools can be integrated into marketing campaigns, or even coming up with versions of their own. The idea of "social influence marketing" is moving into mainstream marketing budgets.
The bad.
The social influence feeding frenzy — In the past 12 months there has been a feeding frenzy of misguided PR and marketing people trying to hook up with "influencers," in a desperate attempt to ride the wave. As somebody typically on the receiving end of this behavior, I can say that 99% of the activity is crap. I especially feel sorry for the most popular mommy bloggers who are deluged with offers and incentives. Everybody wants a piece of an influencer but most are clueless on how to do it well. It's still about relationships, folks.
The Klout Addicts — There is an underground network of folks supporting each other's Klout addictions. They are obsessed with elevating their scores and doing whatever it takes to grab more valuable loot. Swag-grabbing is harmless good fun, but I'm not sure what a connection with these folks really does for creating business results. I'm guessing the brands are starting to figure this out? This is one of the potential dangers I pointed out in the book and it seems to be coming true.
The Klout Echo Chamber — There are still a number of folks out there regurgitating the same tired, out-dated, and irrelevant criticisms of social scoring companies. As they repeat their rants among themselves, they have simply created their own Echo Chamber. The biggest problem is that these folks are stuck in an "offline" framework of power and influence or haven't bothered to look beyond their emotions to understand the theory and psychology behind the scores. Some of the wearisome rants include:
- "Klout is just stupid and doesn't measure anything."
- "Justin Bieber has a higher score than Warren Buffet so that proves that Klout is meaningless."
- "Klout says I'm influential about grapes so that proves that it is worthless."
These were perhaps valid commentaries at one time but today it is simply running old tapes. Here is what a Klout/Kred/PeerIndex score provides: An indicator of a person's relative ability to create content that elicits online sharing and reactions. A company like Appinions further applies these scores in the context of topics, themes, and sentiment.
No more, no less.
Like credit scores, social influence scores are imperfect and not necessarily an indicator of future behavior. And yet, both of these indicators are useful. How many careers today are dependent on a person's ability to effectively move content on the web?
How am I influencing you right now?
It's likely that you know little (or nothing) about me as a person. I'm not an "influencer" in a traditional sense in that I have any power over you through a title, an elected position, or an organizational chart. And although I can't tell you what to do, you may actually take some action after reading this post. Will you tweet it? Forward it to a colleague? Save it for later? Will you spend your precious time to comment on it? Have I even changed your view or attitude? Made you angry? Made you interested enough in the subject to explore the book?
My source of power on the web comes from essentially one place: Having an ability to create or aggregate content that is shared and creates a reaction. Without having the ability to create and move content, most influential bloggers you admire today would probably be toiling in a cubicle someplace instead of speaking on a global stage.
In this limited context, does a social scoring number like a Klout score make sense? Can Brian Solis create and move content better than me? Yes. Can I do this better than many of my students? Yes. Social scoring is far from perfect, but over time, this is the valuation that is beginning to be refined – a relative ability to move content. And that is very limited, but also very useful to many companies and brands who want to find people who can create buzz on a topic or product.
In conclusion …
Thank you for supporting (or debating) these new ideas over the past year. I hope there are two main lessons you took away from the book:
First, this is an amazing time for everyone to find their own online power, their return on influence. It doesn't matter what college you attended, the color of your skin, or how much money you have. You can publish on the web and you can find your own power. Now, what are you going to do about it?
Second, I encourage you to be a critical thinker and cut through the emotionality of a company that purports to measure your influence. Yes, that might seem distasteful. It's icky to me too. But as a business professional, we must move beyond the noise of the debate and look for the signal. Take a clear-headed look at the real dynamics of online influence and the implications for you, your brand, and your business, and make an informed decision.
Disclosure on companies mentioned in this post: I have never received a gift or "Perk" from any social scoring company. I accepted a dinner from the president of Kred in 2012. Both Klout and PeerIndex provided Return On Influence as a premium to their customers in 2012 as part of a promotional deal with my publisher McGraw Hill. I have indirectly provided paid counsel to Appinions as an adviser to one of their outside marketing agencies. I provided unpaid marketing counsel to Dr. Cialdini's company. Links to books are affiliate links.
The results are in: An experiment in social influence
Dec 9th
As many of you know, I recently asked fans of {grow} to support a charitable cause through a post entitled "The kid who wanted a door for Christmas."
I'd like to examine the results of this appeal as an example of "social influence" in action. What happens when a blogger asks his audience to do something beyond clicking a "like button?" What happens when a social media audience actually has to commit to an action and open a wallet? What can you learn from this example that will help you ignite your own business or charity?
The results from this blog post provide a fascinating lesson and case study:
The business situation
Asking for money on the Internet is a notoriously difficult proposition. In short, it usually doesn't work.
I document this extensively in my book Return On Influence and point to several examples where even celebrity-level influencers could not move the needle and create real action through tweets to their vast audiences.
The reason for this failure is that most social media connections are very weak relational links. Sure, we might be willing to help somebody out by clicking a "like" button or sending a tweet … but opening our pocketbook? No. It doesn't happen.
So, going into this project, I knew this was a very risky proposition. Based on my own research and knowledge of the subject, I knew that there was a good chance my appeal would fall flat. Perhaps I would even be publicly embarrassed. Still, this was a worthy charity in need, so I decided to take a risk and ask for help.
Let's look at what happened.
The results
So far, my appeal to help the Amachi charity resulted in 92 individual donations totaling $4,352 (excluding the PayPal fees). I consider this an extraordinary result since this total is not inflated by "friends and family" donations. The total I am reporting represents the new value I created for Amachi by establishing an effective social media presence and creating new connections that did not exist prior to the time I started blogging in 2009.
But we need to take a much closer look at the results to really discover the true nature of social influence.
Here's an indicator of what we're up against. My blog post was tweeted 446 times but only 92 people actually made a donation. So the reality is, 354 people encouraged others to donate without donating anything themselves.
Let's peel the data back a little more by dividing the donors, to the best of my ability, into "strong" connections (people who are known fans of {grow} and regular contributors to the community) and "weak" connections (people I do not recognize from the blog who possibly donated via a tweet about the article or a Facebook post).
Here is the breakdown of strong connection versus weak connection donors:
I am pleasantly surprised that as many as 30 people could have come across the blog via Twitter and donated to the cause. I think the number is actually much lower because I'm sure some of the donors in this category are actual readers of the blog who I don't recognize. But nevertheless, about one-third of the donors were people who do not have a personal relationship with me, which is pretty cool.
Here's a second indicator of how the weak connections represented by social media "friends and followers" is not a very actionable group of people.
A couple social media heavyweights with more than 100,000 followers (and even more than 500,000 followers!) heavily tweeted my post to try to help. I estimated they generated more than 3 million Twitter impressions. Here is how many donors this activity generated: ONE.
So the "celebrity influencer" conversion rate on Twitter was 1 out of 3 million possible impressions. Sad, but not surprising.
Digging even deeper, we see that the strong relational connections from the blog community had a powerful impact on both the number of donations and the average amount of the donation:
Content is power
One premise behind Return On Influence is that the ability to create content that moves through the Internet is a legitimate source of power. In fact, this is the ONLY source of influence I have over most of you. It's probable that you only know me through my content that is shared over social media platforms and, through time, you have come to trust and like me enough to act on a personal request.
Think of the incredible potential we all have here. From a standing start in 2009, I have been able to create a global community that responded to an appeal in one blog post and contributed $4,352 in 48 hours. It took hard work to get to that point, but you have that opportunity — that power — too.
The real power is in strong connections
Not all social media fans and followers are created equal. As this example suggests, the real power of online influence comes through the strong connections created over time through the personal interactions on a blog or other community. If you want to create personal power on the web, you need to build an engaged and loyal group of advocates, not just a big number of Twitter followers. The numbers don't matter as much as the relationships.
The critical importance of reciprocity
Another tenet of Return On Influence is the power of reciprocity (re-paying favors). My friend Jay Baer states in the book that reciprocity is the engine that powers the economy of the social web. As I look at who gave the biggest donations — yes, I've done many of them favors along the way. I had built up a bank of "social capital" and my appeal for donations was an opportunity for those folks to return those favors.
This is not something I planned or manufactured. I help people every single day without an expectation of reciprocity because I enjoy doing that. I'm not sure you can have a reciprocity "strategy." You just have to be kind to people.
Where Klout fails
Klout, Kred and the other social scoring platforms provide an indicator of a person's relative ability to create content that moves on the web. That's an extremely important "leading indicator" of power because without that consistent presence you will never influence anybody on the social web. In other words, you can't be an online influencer if you can't move content. That stream of content to your followers creates the consistent, small "provocations" that eventually lead to those critical strong relationships that will take real action.
However, Klout does not dig deep into blog communities and other forums where the strong links are born, and until they do, they cannot really grasp the "actionable connections" powering the web. This is changing, however. For example, the start-up Appinions has patented technology that analyzes data across an incredible 5 million online data sources – including blogs, forums and traditional media – to create a glimpse of content in context. This represents the real future of social influence measurement and offers mind-blowing opportunities for marketing insight.
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If you are an individual, company, university, or non-profit, your ability to create measurable actions across the weak links of social media platforms are negligible. Remember … I had one conversion over 3 million impressions. In terms of igniting "weak links," I could have probably had better results taking out a Facebook ad!
This is a glimpse of the limits of "influencer" outreach. The donations didn't come from somebody else's vast community. They came from the strong relationships in my own community, which were built by delivering a lot of helpful content, engagement, and authentic helpfulness over several years.
There is a lot of potential to build awareness, social proof and validation through influencer outreach. But don't overlook the need to do the hard work and build a real community for your brand.
The role of social media in the marketing mix is to consistently provide provocations through content that lead to that type of genuine, actionable community. Over time, you then have an opportunity to turn that work and "social bank" into loyalty and even passion for your brand or cause. And only then will the wallets open.
I've covered a lot of ground today on a rather controversial topic. What do you think of this example of social influence and my conclusions?
And by the way, if you missed the article and would like to help me support a charity that is turning lives around, you can learn more in my original post. Thanks again to all who have been so supportive and generous!
Update: If you are just stumbling on to this post, the final total raised was $5,900. but if you care to donate, I will leave this Donation button "on" in the original post => Here.
Also, when I delivered our first check to Amachi, Elijah and I visited the Amachi Office with the surprise donation. You can watch the video here: Amachi video.
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Klout overhauls its business model, but does it answer its critics?
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Klout announced a radical overhaul to its scoring system, site design, and score transparency. But what is the real impact? Will it make a difference? I had a chance to speak to Klout CEO Joe Fernandez to try to determine the depth of the changes that were announced today … and answer the question on everybody's mind — "Will my Klout score drop?"
Substantially more data points
The new site will be introduced this week to a small set of users and will roll out in increments over the course of the next few weeks, according to Fernandez. Among the most important changes, Klout announced that it is beefing up the robustness of its scores by looking more broadly and deeply across social platforms:
- Klout will now consider 400 distinct data inputs to determine your score, up from 100 data points today. New data inputs include stuff like Facebook photo tags, LinkedIn job titles, and Wikipedia entries.
- By expanding the number of platforms and inputs being considered, Klout will analyze 12 billion data points per day (up from 1 billion) in an attempt to provide more accurate scores.
- The company is providing slightly more consideration in its algorithm to what Klout calls the "real world" influence of LinkedIn and Wikipedia.
Tempering the vacation effect
A major complaint about Klout is that people's finely-tuned scores drop whenever they go on vacation (and stop tweeting/posting). Fernandez said that Klout is giving more weight to relatively stable data inputs like LinkedIn profiles and Wikipedia entries that will help minimize the drop in people's scores when they go on vacation. Scores will also be considered over a 90-day period instead of a 30-day period so that sudden inactivity will have a less dramatic impact on scores.
Klout is adding a Kred-like feature called "Moments" that allows you to see which specific activities influence your score. Fernandez says this will help people "create better content" through constant feedback on what is providing the biggest actions from your networks.
Klout has been caught up in some embarrassing privacy miscues, including showing profiles from minors on the site and re-introducing people into the Klout system who had opted-out. Fernandez said they have hired an outside privacy consultant for a "long-standing engagement" to perform audits and also that they have a full-time team overseeing privacy on a day-to-day basis. "We've learned our lesson on the mistakes we made," he said. "Our goal is to lead the industry in matters of privacy protection."
The Bieber versus Obama debate
An endless Klout complaint is that Justin Bieber, previously the only person with a perfect score of 100, has a higher score than the president of the United States. Fernandez believes that putting a higher weight on Wikipedia and LinkedIn will provide a fairer perspective of "real world" influence. And yes, the president now has a higher score than Justin Bieber.
Gaming the system
Fernandez told me they have designed new systems that will "turn the knob down" on people who are gaming their score instead of driving action by organically providing great content. "We will protect our system," he said, "and reserve the right to take action if somebody is using tactics to simply raise a number artificially." For example, he said that a person who created 100 re-tweets by sending out "100 pieces of crappy content" would be penalized compared to somebody who earned 100 re-tweets with one piece of great content.
Site Redesign
According to Fernandez, the new design, which has been in the works for a year, will "help you feel more recognized than judged" with more "emphasis on content rather than your score." As you can see, the profile page has been dramatically re-designed, with a real emphasis on the the new "moments" feature:
The Klout mobile app
Fernandez admitted that the current Klout mobile app is "painfully crude." However, an improved mobile app is in the approval process through Apple that will include the distribution of Klout Perks. This is expected to be available sometime this fall.
Do Klout Perks drive purchases?
While Klout Perks (free gifts generally provided to people with high Klout scores) can have the same short-term impact as coupons, Fernandez said they are getting closer to developing models that demonstrate influencer impact on purchase intent. He said that they are eliminating the noise and complexity of this work by working closely with several brands on a statistical analysis to determine a new "strength of influence score." This score may be able to forecast buying behaviors based on patterns in an influencer's audience.
The bottom line
Klout deserves credit for listening to their critics and attempting to knock down the problems one by one. Will it silence the critics? Of course not. If you hated Klout last week, you'll probably hate Klout this week too. When it comes to Klout, logic rarely prevails.
I think the more important question is, has Klout improved its service offering with substantive changes? Yes and no.
- Probably the biggest concern has been privacy. It appears that Klout has taken a no-nonsense stand on this, but time will tell if they can be a role model on this issue.
- Likewise, Klout's dead serious tone on people gaming their system is the right move. Any social platform that becomes popular eventually attracts corruption. Spammers almost killed Twitter in 2009 and Quora in 2010. Klout realizes that its ability to hold off the gamesters will be critical if they are to present legitimate "influencers" to clients.
- On "transparency" they seem to have stepped up to requests with the "Moments" feature, although Kred appears to still provide more detail in this area. If you have the time to study it, this feature is useful and provides insight into their algorithm. The company also provided a detailed list of factors that impact your Klout score.
- By quadrupling the inputs to personal scores, the scope of their influence assessment far surpasses any rival. But it also adds substantially to the complexity of the algorithm and creates opportunities for things to go wrong. The changes will not significantly impact the fact that a Klout score will still be weighed more toward Twitter- and Facebook-centric activities.
- Most of the other changes announced today — emphasizing content over scores through their design, minimizing the vacation effect, and the "Obama over Bieber" change — are simply window dressing to moderate criticisms, in my opinion. It's not going to make any real difference in their business model or the scores of the everyday social media user.
At the end of the day, Klout, Kred, and PeerIndex only measure one thing: Can a person create content on the social web that gets shared and elicits a reaction? That of course is a legitimate source of power on the web today in this Era of the Citizen Influencer where everyone can publish and have a voice.
But after several years of effort, Klout is still missing out on a real gold mine of online influence — blogs and YouTube videos. These are the forums where rich content is created, discussed, and shared. Today, Klout scores are impacted only by activity on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+, Klout, and Wikipedia. You can also connect YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress, Lastfm and flickr, but they don't compute in your score.
Will Klout's announced changes make a difference? I think they have taken steps in the right direction, but the only meaningful answer will come from its customers — the real ones who give them money, not us. Can Klout deliver effective incentive programs that nurture powerful word of mouth influencers and create brand advocates? The company seems to be on a roll, creating 400 influencer campaigns in the past 12 months, but time will tell.
And, oh by the way …
Will your Klout score drop?
(Drum roll) Probably not. Klout CEO Joe Fernandez said that the changes to the system are substantial, but only about 10 percent of user scores are projected to drop, compared to 40 percent in the Klout-pocalypse of November 2011.
I would be eager to hear your views of these changes, but fair warning — I'm weary of comments with no more rationale than "Klout is stupid." If that's where your head is, read this short explanation of social scoring systems before you comment! Thanks!
Disclosure: I have never taken a Klout Perk or any form of compensation from Klout. My publisher McGraw-Hill worked with both Klout and PeerIndex to offer Return On Influence as a Perk in the spring of 2012 and there may have been a small indirect benefit in terms of additional book sales.
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