How To: Improve Your Klout Score Using Twitter

by Casey Camilleri on May 9, 2012

What is Klout?

As defined by Klout:

“The Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others. The Klout Score uses data from social networks in order to measure: How many people you influence,How much you influence them, The influence of your network.”

What does that mean?

Klout is a new way that businesses will start connecting to it’s users to offer them perks and deals that are purely in the users favor.  It’s also another way to establish your social presence online.  This has a huge impact on your online reputation management.

How do I get started?

First set up a Klout profile.

Go to your settings and fill every area out completely.  When it comes to social networks every field you fill the more they like you.  You gotta have good Klout with Klout!

Go to your Connected Networks and start connecting all of your accounts.

I have 7 total accounts connected to my Klout.  If you are limited and only have a Facebook then you won’t have a chance to build a high Klout score.  So start joining other sites and get familiar with them.

How do I improve my Klout score?

The most important area to focus on when it comes to Klout is to be very, very active within your connected networks.

Just going into your networks a few times a week and retweeting, liking, adding friends, sharing or posting something are all things you can do within those networks.

Twitter Tactics

Adding new followers that are interested in the same things you are interested in.

I follow the San Francisco Giants and baseball on a daily basis so I started reading tweets from the hash tag #SFGiants.

I then followed certain people and immediately wrote to them in reply to one of their tweets or retweeted them.

Therefore I am hitting all of the key Klout concepts on how they create their score:

How many people you influence I’m adding people I follow and when I interact with them 9 times out of 10 they follow me back.

How much you influence them If I continue to interact with others first I have a very high rate now of those people retweeting me.

The influence of your network I’m increasing my network every time I follow someone or they follow me.

If you want to research which hashtags you should follow the best tool to use is the advanced Twitter Search tool.

Have a question about Klout and looking for other ways to increase your Klout score?  Let me know what social network you are looking advice for!

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Information Overload: Reading Goals for 2012

by Casey Camilleri on May 2, 2012

At the beginning of this year I set a goal for myself to read 20-25 books over the course of the year.  It’s easy to get sidetracked in life and forget to keep up with reading books.  We are so inundated with information everyday that it can get overwhelming to try and sit down and complete a book.  Between blogs, you phone beeping you with constant news and distractions from friends to a million e-mails hitting your e-mail box, it’s easy to never truly complete anything.

Such a First World Problem

But it’s true. So I tried to do as much research as possible at the beginning of the year on what books I wanted to consume.  I looked for reading recommendations from trusted sources to books I already owned that I never finished.  I started out with a few books I never finished to get the ball rolling.  The faster I finished a book it became more motivation to move onto the next half read book.

Book Recommendations in 140 Characters or Less

I also came across a great blog post a bit ago called lessons I learned reading over 200 books.  Not only do I want to read every single book on this list, it was an extremely motivating blog post to read.  Getting such a short snippet of each book is such an awesome way to review books and I applaud Julien Smith in not only his amazing feat to consume such a large amount of information but to simplify it as well.

What Are Your Reading Goals?

I plan on hitting my reading goals this year and I hope to surpass them as well.  The way I keep track of what I read is through my GoodReads profile.  I highly recommend signing up for a profile on this site to keep track of all your reading goals.  I’ll be purchasing a Kindle Touch in a few weeks once I finish reading a few books I have in my possession.  I decided on the Kindle Touch because:

  • I won’t get distracted to use the million features a tablet offers you so I can focus on really reading
  • You can check out Kindle books through your local library now for free
  • I no longer have to go on a long search in book stores or wait for my book to arrive from Amazon

What are your reading goals?  What are you looking to learn this year?  How are you going to hit those goals?

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How Not To Be An Asshole

by Casey Camilleri on April 25, 2012

I recently read a book titled, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, by Robert Sutton.  Sutton explains how every company and organization should have a no asshole rule.  He goes into detail how to avoid hiring people who are assholes and also ways to get assholes to leave the organization once you found out they were poisoning the workplace.

A big takeaway from this book for me was in chapter four titled “How to stop your “inner jerk” from getting out.”  When he started describing a party that Kurt Vonnegut went to at a billionaire’s house with his friend Joseph Heller.  Kurt asked Joseph how it made him feel that their host made so much more money compared to him.  Kurt replied back with “I’ve got something he can never have.  The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

If we were all happy with what we have in this exact moment I can see a lot of people being less of a jerk, judgmental and just happier people.

Another story that I love from this book is one about a woman named Ruth who worked with assholes.  She put into practice two very important tactics that helped her deal with them in the workplace.

  1. Ruth learned to reframe the nastiness that she faced n ways that helped her become emotionally detached from the assholes
  2. Ruth didn’t struggle against larger forces that she couldn’t control.  She focused instead on small ways to gain tidbits of control.

I highly recommend reading this book if you have encountered or encounter assholes on a regular basis, which I believe everyone can relate to at one point in time in their life.

 

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