Pretty much anyone will agree that networking is important, whether or not you’re in business for yourself. Most of us will put networking events on our calendars and make an effort to attend, at least occasionally. If we agree that networking is important, why then are we so hesitant to connect with these same people online? One of the best ways to have conversations online is to connect with people you’ve already met offline.
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Klout Adds Facebook to Influence Measurement
Klout recently added Facebook into its influence measurement (which previously was looking mostly at Twitter). Even after recalculating my Klout score from time to time, it didn’t move from my initial score until I added in my Facebook profile. The Facebook integration still doesn’t look at any fan pages (just your profile), but does provide some useful information. After my previous review, my complaint about Klout using only bit.ly’s data for clicks on links is still an issue — if you don’t happen to use bit.ly to shorten your links, Klout has no data about them, and this may negatively affect your influence score. Let’s look at what information the Facebook integration has added….
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WiseStamp Adds Dynamic Content to Your Gmail Signature
While Google finally allowed Gmail users to have images in their signatures, there still isn’t a way to automatically update your signature with a link to your latest blog post, for example. Or have a random quote. Or show your latest tweet. WiseStamp is a free plugin for Chrome, Safari, and Safari which lets you customize your signature with links to your social networks, images, links, plus provides applications which can bring in the title of your latest blog post with a link.
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