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There’s been a lot of discussion about Klout and its new algorythm lately.  People were unsurprisingly a little miffed to wake up one morning to find their Klout score had dropped 20 points overnight.  I was a little upset about it myself, I have to admit.  Here’s a selection of views from around the blogoshere which illustrates a range of views:

In a guest post on Neville Hobson’s blog, Tammy Kahn Fennel of MarketMeSuite says that Klout is getting a bum rap and is spitefully pilloried.  She writes, “…from where I’m …

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It’s time for me to get back to podcasting. Well past time.  After a period of crazy, busy change in my life, I’m refocusing my attention back on the blogosphere.  I’ve really missed reading my favourite blogs.  I learn so much from bloggers and so I’m really glad that I can once again spend time in the blogosphere.  Here are some blogs posts and podcasts I particularly enjoyed this week:

FIR #620:  I always learn from Shel and Neville.  I particularly enjoyed their discussion about the social media storm visited upon …

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I’ve been publishing a monthly newsletter, Social Media News for the past several months and I thought it might be fun to create a podcast around the concept too.    It wraps up the most popular recent content from my blog and highlights news and trends from the social media and PR worlds.  Here’s a rundown of this first podcast:
1. Introduction
2. Facebook pages: 8  success criteria;  Successful Facebook pages all have the same eight characteristics according to a study just released by the Altimeter Group, but about half  of the …