KRED “Credentials” Top 5% Badge

Kred (http://kred.com) awarded gold badges to the top 1%, 5% and 10% Elite influencers; and many folks responded asking how they could get the snippet of code to place the badge on their social media profiles, blogs and email signatures.

The design team has delivered. Sherrie Rose, the Liking Authority, received her Top 5% Influencer Badge as one of the original elite influencers award.  Kred is the largest influence platform in the world.

The CEO of Kred is Andrew Grill.  He is passionate about explaining to large corporates how digital disruption will impact current thinking and strategy, with a focus on moving from social media to social business.

Andrew presents at international conferences on a regular basis, and maintains a well-read blog at LondonCalling.co about digital and social media trends.

He firmly believes that “in order to get digital you need to be digital”.

#LikesUP for Kred!

Likes UP: Rebel Mouse RebelMouse.com

RebelMouse launched in June 2012 much to journalists’ delight.  Entrepreneurs, social media buffs, news stations (see King5Seattle), and tech sites, all embraced this darling new social media aggregator.  You can easily scroll curated information from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.  that displays “In One Place.”  

Many RebelMouse users simply reorganize their own stories, videos and photos to create their own Social Front Page Newsfeed.

RebelMouse sports an image-rich layout that depicts your social media shared interests with Pinterest-style. Check out my Sherrie Rose Rebel Mouse page.

RebelMouse is created by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry and he wants RebelMouse to be the front page to your online life while displaying your tweets, posts and stories.  You can create and curate hundreds of sites.  Here’s Paul Berry’s description of RebelMouse

https://www.rebelmouse.com/sherrierose/

Social Front Page News via RebelMouse. Sign in via Facebook, Google+ or Twitter to get your free account. For Twitter only pages, see Twylah http://www.twylah.com/sherrierose

RebelMouse has some powerful capabilities:

• brings multiple social networks together in one place
• share social data (images, text, video) with people outside your usual network
• modification be either totally automated or you can edit and curate manually (LOVE this!!!)

RebelMouse paid versions customized to your domain name are ‘coming soon.’ 

Some celebs already have custom domains – @garyvee says: “Love using @RebelMouse for my NEW HOMEPAGE on garyvaynerchuk.com“  Here’s the watchdog reporting news from Muck Reads as part of the project for Journalism in the Public Interest.

Get creative with RebelMouse!

#LikesUP for Rebel Mouse

Connect online with Sherrie Rose http://www.sherrierose.info/

Klout Influence K+ Score Rising

Klout Influence K+ Score Rising

Klout score measures social influence.  My score = 71 as of this blog post and it increased from 10 days ago as you can see on the YouTube video. The Klout score is out of 100. The Klout Score is a single number that represents the aggregation of multiple pieces of data about your social media activity. Previous versions giving Klout users a title (i.e. Klout Broadcaster, Klout Thought Leader) have been disbanded with the new look and algorithm.  Wired Magazine said, “Klout may be ridiculed by those who find it obnoxious or silly or both, but it is aiming to become one of the pillars of social media.”

Look inside Klout on YouTube:

Klout Score:

#LikesUP for Klout

Sherrie Rose on Klout

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What is Social Medial Bar?

What is Social Medial Bar?

The Social Media Bar was created by the Internet Marketing Mastermind Alliance as an Exclusive Bonus for Active Empower Network Affiliates (ENA) that are part of “the mlm team.”  MLM = multi-level marketing also known as network marketing or direct marketing.  No Likes UP for ENA links on social media bar.

Other social media tool bars such as visibli.com (example: http://vsb.li/TXGWcX) allow you to create a custom engagement bar and analytics with each shared link.  Wibiya and Skysa also boast interactive features.
 

There is a video on the home page explaining how Social Medial Bar works. Currently the social media bar is a tool that is in beta testing.  There is a note that spam will not be tolerated under the video, however, many people feel that a flood of empower network affiliate links disguised as social media blog posts is deceptive and very much like spam.

Below is the image for “Create Framed Content” data entry area with five fields.  URL Slug, Destination URL, Page Title, Page Description, Image URL.

Interesting that the description of the URL Slug is “Think link shorteners, something relevant (ex. kittens, obama, weight-loss)” 

The idea here is to get someone to click the link with possibly deceptive curiosity-laden words and when the person who clicks arrives at an ENA multi-user blog.  More on that in a moment.

This is the test link that was created that takes you to this Likes UP article:

http://socialmediabar.com/whatissocialmedialbar

Here’s what the social media bar page looks like on this blog:

As you can see there are social sharing functions for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Stumble Upon and Google+ along the top of the tool bar to promote more viral social activity.

You can easily copy the link ( #1 in image above) . The proliferation of the links on Facebook are made possible by the easy “Share on Facebook” button (#2 image above). 

Empower Network & Internet Marketing Mastermind Alliance are one in the same. People have been complaining about these links showing up every where.  Most are blogs associated with affiliates that have one purpose and that is to sell the MLM blog ($25/month is the minimum fee). 

Here is a spam link (prior to deletion) on a Facebook group that has specific rules against spam. Because this was a direct to “Share on Facebook” there was no description. It looks innocent enough.

Here is an example, in the image below, of an ENA multi-user blog from the social media bar link above.

As you can see both the header and the side bar prominently display advertising for one purpose only.  The three step formula for blogging to blog every day, promote every day (that’s why social media bar was created to quickly send out links to ENA blog postings) and collect money (no refunds allowed).  The EN affiliate blog content gets lost. You can hardly see the blog post because of the loud banners and widgets on the ENA page.  It appears there is one difference on the social media bar page and the regular ENA blogpost page and that is the affiliate can upload their photo which also displays in the header. 

SMART ALTERNATIVE: Instead of a multi-user blog that you have no control over, watch this free training and create your own blog.  Be in control of your content and for the same price of a blog you do not own, you can host it yourself and other blogs or websites.   For social sharing get the free version of http://visibli.com/register/0/0/0

Facebook Groups New Design: Cover Photo Banner Image Dimension

Facebook messaging just got a new look (closer to Outlook) and now there is a new look for Facebook Groups!

It seems Facebook has been slowly rolling out this feature for the past couple of weeks. And soon, all Groups will get the new upgrade and a big Likes UP!

We are waiting on the official Cover Photo Banner Image Dimension for Facebook Groups.  It is substantially larger than the original size of 801 x 250 pixels (980 x250).

OLD LOOK Facebook Groups (March 2012)

Here’s the old look (courtesy of Inside Facebook) with 3-column design which also demonstrates the new Dropbox feature for sharing files.

NEW LOOK Facebook Groups (October 2012)

Facebook admins can change or add a new larger group banner image cover photo for their group or allow the profiles images of the group members to display.

The new Facebook Group format is much wider with 2-column design and with the left column removed.  These links are now available in a drop down window.

The about section in the image above showing the group, Internet Marketing Super Friends, has been expanded.  In the typical format, the text would state “see more.” Underneath the about section is now an larger area to display advertisements.  The two column layout is better for Facebook ads that display in the right column.

If the Facebook admin chooses not to upload a banner image for the group, then images of profile pictures of members will display.  Back in February, it was 8 profile photos that displayed.  As you can see in the image below for the group, Easy Webinar Video System, there are still 8 profile pictures of members but they are much larger (122 x 100 pixels).

#LikesUP for Facebook Groups

Are you seeing these changes in your Facebook Groups?

Sherrie Rose