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    How to Get Started With Google+, Your Complete Guide

    By now, you have all probably heard about the Google+ project, Google's next attempt at making their network more social. Its goal is to make sharing online more like sharing in real life.

    If you haven't gotten your invite just yet, you can learn more about Google+ in the following quick-look video, and by visiting the Google+ project overview, searchable details and discussion pages.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwnJ5Bl4kLI

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    5 Tools That Help Measure Your Social Media Influence

    Do you know if you're having an impact on Twitter, Facebook and other social media networks? Do you want some tips on how to measure your social media influence?

    As Twitter continues to grow, tools to enhance your Twitter experience and measure your influence are popping up all over the web. In this article, I'll highlight five free tools that offer easy ways to keep track of your influence on Twitter and beyond.
    #1: Klout
    Perhaps one of the more well-known resources for measuring your Twitter influence is Klout, which is available as an

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    3 Steps to More Traffic With The Digg Digg Plugin

    Wondering how to make it easy for people to share your great content? Keep reading...

    You've done the hard part, which is creating compelling content that will keep your readers coming back to your blog again and again. Now that you have these amazing posts, the next obstacle is to get people to share your content.

    I found this great WordPress plugin called Digg Digg, an all-in-one social sharing tool. It's easy to configure and offers lots of choices.

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    3 Social Plugins for Customizing Facebook iFrame Tabs

    Now that Facebook is fully supporting custom iFrame tabs and phasing out FBML and the Static FBML support, many page admins are wondering how best to add functionality to their iFrame tabs.

    For example, how do you add popular FBML tags that facilitated interaction on Facebook, such as Reveal/Fan-Gating, Multi-Friend Invite, Share button, Like button and Comments.
    Facebook Social Plugins to the Rescue!
    Fortunately, a subset of the XFBML tags (a.k.a. Social Plugins) intended for use on websites to integrate them into Facebook's "social

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    Is Klout a Good Judge of Your Social Media Influence?

    Have you used Klout? Can it really tell you how influential people are online? Can it be gamed? Read my review and decide for yourself.
    What Is Klout?
    Klout calls itself the "measurement for your overall online influence," but what are they really trying to do? To understand Klout's goal, you have to understand influence itself and the difficulty in measuring social media ROI. In the beginning, social media was measured in followers and fans, and for a time, life was good.

    But with companies joining social media sites by the tens of

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