How to Use Klout Effectively

Video Tutorials for Online Social Influence

Klout is a social influence ranking tool. With Klout, you can determine, monitor and improve your social influence online. Learn to use Klout effectively with Grovo’s video tutorials, conceptual lessons, expert interviews, quiz questions and downloadable PDFs.

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“How To” Tutorials on Klout

# Name Description
Klout
1. What is Klout? Learn what makes this gauge of social influence so valuable.
2. Create a Klout Account Use your existing Twitter or Facebook account to set up your Klout account.
3. Connect Klout to Social Networks Link your social networks, like YouTube or Foursquare, to your Klout account.
4. Understand the Klout Score Learn the methods and metrics used to determine your Klout score.
5. Understand Klout Style Learn how your Klout Style is determined and what it means.
6. Monitor a Klout Score Observe how your influence changes over time.
7. Find Other Influencers Locate and interact with influential people.
8. Organize Influencers Into Lists Group and compare similar types of people in Lists.
9. Compare a Score to Other Users' See how you stack up against friends, co-workers and competitors.
10. Become Influential in Specific Topics Focus your social efforts on particular topics to gain Klout in those areas.
11. Improve a Klout Score Implement tactics to help improve your Klout score.
12. Disconnect Networks and Cancel an Account Limit Klout's access to your online life by disconnecting some of your social networks, or by deleting your account altogether.

Animated Concepts and Strategy

# Name Description
Social Media
1. History of Social Media Gain an understanding of the history of social media.
2. Reach Harness the efficiency of social media to communicate with a wide audience of potential customers.
3. Targeting Target the people most likely to become customers and evangelize your business.
4. Desire Get people to want to do business with you by creating a positive impression online.
5. Tracking Keep track of consumer opinions and of how well your social media pages are performing.
6. Integration Make your organization more tightly integrated.
7. Social Media Management Set up internal structure and process for governing social media.
8. Create Social Media Policy Establish protocols and methods to standardize handling of Social Channels.
9. Social Media Design Strategy Preserve your branding across social media channels.
10. Social Media Response Plan Nail down a plan of action for responding to negative comments.
Managing Your Online Reputation
1. Why Manage Your Online Reputation? Discover how to monitor and protect your personal and professional reputation online.
2. Find and Track Online Mentions Use Google Search and Alerts to discover and track your appearances online.
3. Remove Negative Mentions Learn some methods for removing or obscuring negative search results.
4. Create a Positive Online Presence Boost your online reputation by creating a positive and professional online presence.
5. Clean Up Social Networks Improve your online image by cleaning up your social networks.
6. Separate Friends with Facebook Lists Separate your professional and personal lives on Facebook.
7. Maintain Professionalism Online Monitor and censor your online communications to protect your professional reputation.

Tips, Tricks and Techniques from Experts

# Name
Joshua Waldman - Ultimate Guide to Personal Branding
1. Ultimate Guide to Personal Branding
2. Personal Branding, Defined
3. Importance of Introspection
4. What is a Professional Profile?
5. Compelling Headlines
6. Effective Profile Summaries
7. Eye-catching Profiles
8. Consistency Across Platforms
9. Offline Networking
10. Network Reach
11. Online Networking
12. Ask for an Introduction
13. LinkedIn Groups
14. The 7 Deadly Sins
David Tisch - Building a Successful Startup
1. Building a Successful Startup
2. Becoming an Angel
3. Building the Accelerator
4. Choosing Companies
5. What Makes a Winning Team
6. Mentorship and Community
7. The NY Tech Scene
8. "The Normals"
9. Using Twitter
10. Opportunity in Social Media
11. Being More Productive
12. TechStars on Bloomberg
Andy Dunn - Vertical Retail and Social Media
1. Trailer: Retail and Social Media
2. Building a Brand Online
3. Customer Acquisition
4. The World of Online Shopping
5. Differentiation
6. Leveraging Social Media
7. Social Media Successes and Failures
8. Connection and Authenticity
9. The Evolution of Commerce