A good guest posts lands your article...

A good guest posts lands your article on page one of Google (get in on it!) http://su.pr/2wVzbR

Talkin' Klout Perks: who gets 'em, wh...

Talkin' Klout Perks: who gets 'em, what the ir worth and what they cost > http://su.pr/2JN3nr
Fascinating to me is that while the Klout employee whose bio states that he “works on Klout campaigns,” Clayton Su wont touch answer a simple question on the cost of a Perk, and then, while CEO and Co-Founder Joe Fernandez and Megan Berry (Klout’s Marketing Manager) are quite active in Quora – when it suits their purposes – neither will address this open question (within Quora) How much do Klout Perks cost a business? (There's a convenient link to that question in my blog post - so you can check on it.)

Why Does Connect.Me Need Trust Anchor...

Why Does Connect.Me Need Trust Anchors? http://su.pr/2kMpHd http://ping.fm/9zu9u

Drummond Reed, Chairman of Connect.Me...

Drummond Reed, Chairman of Connect.Me tells you how to apply become a Trust Anchor in Connect.Me. (And why we'd want to.)
Talk with him directly - in the comments on this just-published blog post. I would greatly appreciate that. (Naturally, you'd want to check out his info on how to apply to be a Trust Anchor before asking him about it, but also, welcome to ask how he thinks Connect.Me will stand against Kred, Klout, etc. Tough questions are the best, right?)

http://ping.fm/SsZo6

** I would SO much appreciate your likes and sharing to your sharable-people on this one. ESPECIALLY this one. Thanks, in advance :-)

For SU-sharers and other network sharers, a one-on-one freebie from me: g-talk or SKYPE me and let me help you tweak your Connect.Me profile (so you build rep where you want it, not just on any old subject.) Happy to help you, my blog-promotion "team players."

And I thank you,

SauL

What a story: a shocking patent attac...

What a story: a shocking patent attack on a pre-seed startup Modista.

http://ping.fm/HY18m
Modista is an unbelievable idea that would have revolutionized online shopping.

Imagine shoe-shopping... where you drag sliders to change colors and even the shape of shoes - and the system then searches for products similar to what you would want > http://su.pr/2tHw1c

You can control-freak a community htt...

You can control-freak a community http://su.pr/1ycZG0

It actually works for some. Provide clearly stated comment guidelines so users know the rules and what you expect of them. Stress that you’re looking for thoughtful, friendly contributions. Include a lot of do’s in this list, not necessarily a lot of don’t's. Erase all traces of comments that are not perfectly aligned with your thinking – to ensure that you become regarded as either a force to be reckoned with or a control-freak. If the value you offer is great enough, many will actually tolerate control freak-lead online communities.


Provide comment system with tools that inherently encourage value-adding participation.

• Voting buttons, to move best comments up/the less useful comments down – as we see in Quora.
• Grant star commenter status to just a few usual suspects. Let them know you will do this before you actually do – so you can roll out the starring very gradually. When site admins highlight regular commenters, it makes these users feel appreciated and motivates other users to want that status too. (Credit: Dino Dogan)
• If you can, recommend your biggest supporters somewhere. Bonus points for doing this somewhere important, such as in LinkedIn, and especially, for doing so before they ask you to. (Credit: Samantha Bangayan)
• Facebook Connect and Google to provide avatars and identities (a tag-line, perhaps) – as we see in third party apps in Facebook, creating sub-communities and enticing us to join by allowing us to pull profile data from LinkedIn and sometimes other intra-network apps.
• Provide the opportunity for users to create profile pages. This allows you and other community members to see a user’s history of activity, bio, and when the profile page has a discrete URL, some may even use it in their about.me, LinkedIn, and other important networks/pages where they can include such profile pages.
Invite experts

Topic authorities who can be enticed to join your conversation and answer questions get real attention. If you can seed an online community it with known experts, you not only raise the quality of discussions that they lead, nearly all commenters will tend to bring out their best game, and put more thought into the comments they provide.
Promote users and the very best individual contributions.

Users appreciate recognition for thoughtful and witty contributions. Find a way to showcase such commenters to the community (talk about a user/s comment/s in a follow-up blog post or create a module somewhere that you can update with new comment/user highlights). It will provide motivation to other users and give the community an indication of what you consider quality. When its positive, it always pays to do this publicly, rather than with a personal thank-you email.

I like what Quora is doing, in recognizing community members who provide valuable answers, comments, posts, complete profiles (okay, Quora doesn’t do enough to prompt people to do this, truth be told), and moderation. Perhaps your favorite Mashable or HuffPost for encouraging our participation. What comment functions or moderation “tone” does your favorite online community provide that inspires you to contribute and keep coming back?

Topic authorities who can be enticed...

Topic authorities who can be enticed to join your conversation and answer questions get real attention. If you can seed an online community it with known experts, you not only raise the quality of discussions that they lead, nearly all commenters will tend to bring out their best game, and put more thought into the comments they provide.su.pr size it! http://su.pr/1ycZG0

Digital Water Clock of Osaka

URL:  http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1QCz83/www.youtube.com/wa...

This stops kids of all ages, like a deer in your headlights.



Damp Design Excellence!

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/uYB802

Friends have been sharing "Proposed F...

Friends have been sharing "Proposed Facebook Buttons" Here http://su.pr/5LYqur are my suggestions - what would keep Facebook open on my PC: But what would you like in your Facebook? What buttons and functionality would make Facebook less of a time-kill for you?

http://ping.fm/Q2WyM

A guest post from THE man behind Circ...

A guest post from THE man behind CircleMe http://su.pr/1NzYef Making Web Content Relevant: CircleMe

Guest post from Giuseppe D’Antonio / CircleMe
Building on the Social Web

A few months ago, I embarked in a project which has become more and more engaging and exciting as the weeks progress. With my partner Erik Lumer, we have been working hard in the development and distribution of a product called CircleMe, which Saul quickly spotted on his radar just less than a month from our public release, on October 4th, 2011. Our vision with CircleMe is to create an online environment where users can take advantage of technology and the social web to enjoy more their passions and interests in life (i.e., their “likes”).
Social Graph Power

The way we want to achieve this is by asking users to “connect” to the things and topics they love, and then CircleMe will leverage clever algorithms along with the power of the social graph to surface relevant content and new items tailored to each user. To get there, we need to move gradually. The first step has been to create an engaging environment where users can easily express all their ‘likes’ and discover (in a serendipic way) new things of potential interest. Then, as activity increases, we will have enough data to reach the goal to surface relevant content in a timely fashion for any interested user.
OsakaBentures Access

If you would be interested to give CircleMe a try, feel free to click on this link to get granted access to the system. We hope you will find the CircleMe experience unique, engaging and useful.
Instant Access (no invite needed): Just for OsakaBentures Readers

Of course the project is quite ambitious, but with a strong team behind it and a gradual approach, we have already seen good progress in these seven weeks since launch.
CircleMe Bookmarklet and Public Item Pages

And today we are releasing two key features which I believe will continue to improve the overall offering of CircleMe: the “CircleMe Bookmarklet” and the “Public Item Pages”. Below you will find some details with a quick & dirty video tutorial that will show you how to take advantage of our “CircleMe Bookmarklet” feature.

I am certain that in the future more and more we will all need to easily access personalized and relevant content, easily filtering out the rest; even today we are often overwhelmed by the content we are able to access (in ‘push’ or ‘pull’ modality). We are working hard in combining sophisticated recommendation technologies with social curation logics so that relevant content can reach users when most appropriate. As the months go by, we hope to be able to deliver on this promise, while offering a fun and engaging experience to our user base.

The CircleIt! Button (our bookMarklet): with the CircleMe bookmarklet, any CircleMe user will be able to “carry” CircleMe functionality with them across the web. The bookmarklet is easily installed on the browser and allows any user to interact with web content at the time of consumption, by making an association with CircleMe content. With the bookmarklet, a user can create a new “like” in CircleMe, related to the item that is being discussed in that specific page visited. The user can also create a ‘CircleMe story‘ by quickly associating this page URL to the CircleMe item that is most appropriate for this story; finally, the app allows to create a “to do” activity (i.e., bookmarks something so the user can put it in a list of things to get done) related to the specific thing being read about. [Example: the user is on a news site, and reads an article of Bruce Springsteen's next concert in London. She clicks on the CircleMe bookmarklet, identifies Springsteen's item that she likes, and associates a Story and a "To-Do" to this item, triggering the creation of a task to complete in relation to the singer coming into town.

Public Item Pages: from today, all items in CircleMe, which are the content cards that the users connect to (expressing a transparent "interest" for them) are public to access. The total number of items is close to 1 million. This way, all these items will also be accessible by users not yet signed in CircleMe. Any internet-user will be able to see the details related to the item, including picture, description, comments, associated stories related to the item. While we hope that many more users will sign-up after seeing the interesting content shared in CircleMe, this way any internet citizen can take a peak at what is inside CircleMe.

http://ping.fm/AZx7E

Humanizing Online Reputation: Connect...

Humanizing Online Reputation: Connect.Me http://su.pr/2YsT4s
by @OsakaSaul on November 23, 2011

After learning from @DrummondReed, Chairman and a co-founder of @ConnectMe that the trust and reputation-building network his team is creating (currently in private beta) is just about to rein in the mass-messaging that got my goat, I further was treated to a one-on-one tour of where he and his colleagues are on issues of trust and online reputation scoring. If he achieved nothing else, Drummond certainly made a fan of me. I immediately regretted Scooping… with…
135 views so far – in just one of my ScoopIt magazines: “Blog Promotion”

The Blog Promotion Scoopit

Frankly, I initially took exception to the flurry of messages, in LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter that I received recently. My reaction, shared on my blog in “Connect.me Cons Me” http://ping.fm/vStSa was woefully misguided. (I suggest a look at the comments on that article.) In fact, co-founders of Connect.Me addressed trust issues that I had with their network.
Connect.Me Partners’ Reactions

“Saul, you are right about several areas where we need to improve. We have added more controls and limits on vouch notifications — in fact you can turn notifications off on your Settings page. We are also adding more information about how to use Connect.Me — this will get easier as we add more features for using your reputation card. And your last point – about how to make it easier and faster to vouch for specific skills across a group of contacts – is one we are especially focused on.“

- Drummond Reed

“Our goal is to build a p2p reputation system that users can trust and keeps them in complete control. We have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes in the identity and privacy circles to get this done with a high degree of credibility…”

- Marc Coluccio

I was soon speaking with Drummond, and what I learned, I took to Quora and ensured that my Quora Post would be seen, by adding it to one of my ScoopIt magazines. Below, I show how it is just as easy to recommend one’s segment (my Quora post, in this case) to be syndicated by a friend’s ScoopIt, when you use the ScoopIt bookmarklet:
Recommending my ScoopIt segment on Connect.Me
I wanted to be sure to get featured in “Beta News,” and so I submitted my Quora post:

Recommend a ScoopIt to be ReScooped
Recommending my Connect.Me Quora Post Scoop to be re-scooped in someone else’s ScoopIt

Along with being rescooped by a couple other ScoopIt Magazines, getting picked up by KT-Online was a pleasant surprise (and led me to research Anita Hamilton) …

My Quora Post on Connect.Me: Humanizing Online Reputation

My email inbox had a slew of notifications showing that a number of people I asked (and a few I didn’t) rescooped the Quora post on Connect.Me

Connect.Me VS Klout & Peer Index - Rescooped
Many must be intrigued to learn – and share – how Connect.Me stands up to Klout

I can’t say I minded my piece getting picked up by the “SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about!” ScoopIt (2 days after the publishing of my Quora post), since with 6,100 views, Martin Gysler is putting my own Blog Promotion ScoopIt to shame! (I must learn how he gets those… MORE networking to do!)

I am thoroughly convinced that Connect.Me will obliterate Klout as well as PeerIndex and possibly Kred as well. Connect.Me aims to humanize reputation scoring. Clout from our peers, with incredible transparency. Further, how the issue of trust is regarded, as Connect.Me is still being crafted, this is what wins you over.

The vouches are only the beginning. We are going to see stats per specialty/general public and by specialty/within our connections, and we will thus know who the ‘go-to’ person is, whether we want to fish within our own pond or worldwide (as we can by using LinkedIn Skills), and we will have this from Connect.Me.

Of course, in Connect.Me, we are able to declare our own specialties, prioritize (to increase the likelihood of being vouched for on those subjects, I am thinking) and at any time, order them and also edit them. Here’s me, current to 11/16/2011:

Saul Fleischman Trust Profile in Connect.Me
The Saul Fleischman Trust Profile in Connect.Me: shows just the main six specialties I would like to be vouched for, in the order I want them: CM helps me be know for these.

Many have vouched for me on several topics were set; those you see in the image above are the ones I want to appear in my mini-profile – those I would most appreciate vouches for.
Where is Klout with self-declared topics?

Klout and PeerIndex Losing Ground to Connect.Me
Klout and PeerIndex Losing Ground to Connect.Me

As of this writing, it is a Klout ‘Perk’ to receive early access to be able to declare our own specialties/topics (termed ‘Topics’ in Klout).

In fact, as for where the Connect.Me founders are coming from in the realm of reputation and trust, a must-read is the one-page summary of the ‘Respect Trust Framework‘ published by the non-profit Open Identity Exchange:
http://ping.fm/Mok3l

Connect.Me publishes it’s own mini-summary at http://ping.fm/3imxu In my session with Drummond, he explained:

“The big difference here is the Respect Promise — everyone who joins the network promises to respect the right of every other member to control their identity and data. This is a revolutionary new approach to protection of personal data and relationships online, with which we worked with some of the top digital identity and trust experts worldwide — enough so that it won the Privacy Award at this year’s European Identity Conference in Munich last May.”

Drummond suggested a short PDF called Building Lasting Trust on the Connect.Me blog that explains the four trust levels members progress through as they gve and receive vouches. It also explains the special role of what are called “trust anchors” — a topic so important enough that he volunteered to do a guest blog post explaining more about it next week.

13 Tips for OUTRAGEOUS LinkedIn tract...

13 Tips for OUTRAGEOUS LinkedIn traction http://su.pr/1EbHCW via @WayneMansfield

A Sunshiny Blogger and Expat in Peru ...

A Sunshiny Blogger and Expat in Peru http://bit.ly/sfjFiL via @samanthaluy

osakabentures.com/2011/11/connect-me-...

osakabentures.com/2011/11/connect-me-cons-me/

Thanks for the vouch. Did you look at the platform on which you are recommending me?
Or did you do it on BranchOut, Talent.me or Connect.me – simply because they lead you to do it, and make it a seconds-per-rope-in-each-friend operation, rather than, say, a LinkedIn recommendation which should require much more thought…?
Talent.me: just 3 clicks per friend to “endorse“
(and perhaps that’s not a good thing)

Hey, Apps, leave my friends alone!

Scam applications may tell you that you can find out who your top 10 stalkers are on Facebook and how many hours you’ve spent on Twitter. The intention is to gain access to your social networking account, so that internet marketers can the can spread their links virally, and drive traffic to their money-making schemes. Via you.

You would think people would be wary of allowing a third-party app, which doesn’t explain its intentions and doesn’t explain who’s behind it, from gaining access to their Facebook or Twitter account. (Credit: Graham Cluley – Connect.me sign-up rush exposes risky behaviour of social networkers )

But that’s exactly what hoards of people seem to be doing right now with Connect.me.
They got me!
Connect.me spam invites

Connect.me suggested I vouch for people, and I did. It never told me they'd LinkedIn message them, though.

Wont you vouch for your friends? Well, why wouldn’t you? As you can see from the screenshot to the left, right out of my LinkedIn “sent messages” tab, though Connect.me did not tell me that they would inform those I recommended via a LinkedIn message – that’s just what they did.

Just as I recently cried foul in regards to Facebook group invites (group inflictions, I called them, since you don’t actually invite to groups in Facebook – but force people into them), and contrasted with LinkedIn group invites, sites need to get called out for using our application authorization – to spam our friends.

If you follow the link and reserve your connect.me name, you are led to link the connect.me site with your Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. You are reading the blog of the sucker who went fell for the LinkedIn connection route. In my own defense, similar to Branchout, and CommonRed, I expected this “professional networking site” to draw profile data from LinkedIn to flesh out my profile.

What’s more, several close friends of mine had “vouched for me” – and I had a slew of Twiter DMs, emails, and Facebook messages backed up, all informing me that so-and-so had vouched for me “to get me early access to Connect.me.” How could I go wrong…? I wanted that early access, right, and if they thought it was a thing to dive into…? And I did like those warm DMs, Facebook messages and LinkedIn messages, along with a few emails, letting me know that friends vouched for me.

Connect.me is declining to give away any information about what they mean to become, describing themselves as “a better way to manage your social connections” but candidly noting that they’re unwilling to tell you a damn thing about themselves or what Connect.me intends to become, when finished. In fact, they flat out tell us that it’s currently “in ninja stealth mode“:
connect.me is crafty, lures us with vouching

Ninja Stealth Mode (read: don't even ask us who we are or what we're up to)

I got conned, but must say that I am more than a little uncomfortable with our willingness to join a service which potentially exposes our social networking accounts – while we have no idea what it is we’re signing up for. It was this Twitter conversation that got me thinking (and then later, a LinkedIn connection letting me know that I had just allowed LinkedIn to message him automatically – scary):
Connect.me vouches gone viral

Connect.me vouching: "...but I did it anyway"

About Saul Fleischman

Showcasing bootstrapped social media networks and tools (while designing my own). OsakaBentures supports emerging social web applications developers by broadly sharing their guest posts on their apps and projects.

Bloggers: A thing to do, to go much, ...

Bloggers: A thing to do, to go much, much further by leveraging our connections X SU: we need to follow each other - and be sure to tick the box "accept shares."

Then, just the best from your connections, share in SU to your shareable people. Before Yomar Lopez tutelage, I found that a few hundred people followed me - but only 2 took my shares. I now ask - since people don't know what to do in there. Care to hook up with me in there? I am http://ping.fm/LvYn2

** Any of us in Triberr - whether we are connected in a tribe or not - when I see you've done this, I get you back, usually within a day.

http://www.quora.com/Saul-Fleischman/...

http://ping.fm/KQ5sq

http://www.scoop.it/t/blog-promotion/...

http://ping.fm/AhHNE Via Blog">http://ping.fm/VnRaN">Blog Promotion

Twitter is going to silently release old, unused usernames. I'm claiming mine!
http://ping.fm/vuDsp

http://www.quora.com/Saul-Fleischman/...

http://ping.fm/YSiii CC @respectconnect

How far off base am I with this? http...

How far off base am I with this? http://ping.fm/QCDS8

There are several benefits in putting...

There are several benefits in putting a blog headline on a diet. Here are my thoughts, and the comments see discussion already... especially hot for Triberr people and bloggers who get their stuff shared a lot...

http://ping.fm/Nx2Ah

Trim Post Titles for Reach
Posted by OsakaSaul on October 26, 2011 in English | 2 Comments

I syndicate this blog with Triberr.com, where our articles go out to fellow bloggers’ Twitter accounts – and perhaps soon, to Facebook and/or StumbleUpon as well.

The below, my response in a Triberr Tribal Council, or private forum, was to the “Chief,” or creator and manager of a small group or “Tribe” of bloggers. She noted how I often edit fellow bloggers’ post titles. She was kind enough to note this is a positive light – and while I wish other would put their article titles on a strict character-counting diet, I am concerned that my blogging peers my take offense that I will only tweet their blog when the title has been made more succint. My explanation (also in one of my tribe’s Tribal Council) for doing so follows:
I’d like to share a few ideas in hopes that others optimize blog article titles

1. We send our blogs here and there, but bother to dig deep into what is boosting our Klout, tampering down our Alexa rank (I went from 1.8 Million to under 300K in three months due to Triberr), and drawing monster page views and also real interaction on our blogs, and I believe we will agree that the Triberr tweets and our relationships forged within the Triberr community – these are doing the bulk of the work. As such, let’s optimize blog post titles for Twitter – and Triberr. Fair enough?

You get a mention at the end of the Triberr tweet. Same deal when someone tweets from your blog (unless you have not thought to swap your “AddThis” comment plugin for Disqus, LiveFyre or Commentluv). Thus, we waste precious characters when including blog name or our own name, our tweetchat program, etc. inside the tweet. That might be a thing to not do, thus.

2. Why is brevity so important? Please go, in Triberr, from Home to My Stream, click a pie chart to the right of any of your posts that appear under My Stream. We see how many page views each member is driving (or, if they declined to even send our blog tweet…) If you watch your mentions in Twitter, you’ll see that when one of the more influential members of a tribe tweets your blog, one or two people you don’t know will retweet it = more exposure for you (your Twitter handle gets one more mention – this feeds Klout and also leads to people-networking opportunities) and also more exposure for your blog.
Want retweets of the retweets you get?

Well, then after taking a shot at SEO, kindly leave enough character space for that to happen.
With blog article titles, for us in the thick of it with Triberr, now more than ever – less is more.

Example:
Someone in one of my Tribes sent this through Triberr: “What Pokemon Can Teach You About Social Media”
I trimmed this down to: “Pokemon, on Social Media”
This is sufficient and saving 22 characters optimizes for at least one, perhaps two retweets deep. Retwets on our retweets. Sure, a concise post title only provides the potential for this – no guarantee. Alas, it might not happen.
Lengthly post titles ensure that it retweet will be limited, however.
Also, since many Triberr members and within Twitter, your supporters (who would retweet you – if you left room for this) cannot be bothered spending their time to correct what they see as your SEO mistakes – they may simply be declining to tweet some of your posts for no reason other than you were inconsiderate in laying on thick too many self-serving terms.

Worthwhile, don’t you think?
At the risk of offending the author on his choice of words, as I see it:

Triberr created the option to change the post title, and it does not affect the guy’s blog, but only the tweet coming from my Twitter account. Fair, thus? What do fellow bloggers think of title edits?
Brevity in article titles will, as I explained above, send our tweets further, and garner us more page views, grow our blog following, and improve our Twitter standings.

I do wish people would do more of the trimming themselves – starting with their own blogs.

As I noted above, while you syndicate in other ways, in all fairness, since Triberr is probably doing a lot of the promotion for you, isn’t it prudent – and kind to your Tribespeople who want retweets as well – that we make Triberr optimization a priority?

A final note on article title trimming: what does a hashtag get you – other than emphasis and potentially being picked up by aggregators like paper.li? Terms are terms, and in Twitter Advanced Search, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, etc., the results are identical – with or without the hashtag (#). Why tag something in the blog post title, thus?

Looking forward to @rdempsey "B2B MKT...

Looking forward to @rdempsey "B2B MKTG CHAT" @jkcallas @neicolec http://t.co/gISU97zG CC @WayneMansfield Tues 9PM EST dmchat

Triberr Access Work-Around twrt.me/oo...

Triberr Access Work-Around twrt.me/ooudb9

Triberr Access Work-Around
Posted by OsakaSaul on September 11, 2011 in English | 10 Comments
Why guest post on this blog?

Perhaps you know of, or use Triberr, but have a still-growing, or rather small reach? And you want your blog post to hit 7 million via 120+ Twitter accounts (including some rather well-know “Twitterati,” actually). With a link back to your site…?
While I cannot give every blogger out I know membership in my Triberr tribes…
To be tweeted by my Triberr reach (over 7M in Twitter), there’s another way: guest post on http://ping.fm/7DG2Q

These are just the top few bloggers who got me the most pageviews on just one of my most recent posts. Of the 120+ who tweet my blog, these bloggers tend to drive the most traffic my way, but I appreciate the "juice" I get from everyone. I am able to share that with you when you guest post on this blog.











































While I cannot get every great blogger an invite to the “power tribes” of Triberr (there are several with a Twitter reach of 1,000,000+), if you would like to be tweeted by my Triberr reach an original blog article on my blog is easier to arrange. A social media / entrepreneurship / design / emerging technologies post of 350 words+, with one (1) link to your site is guaranteed to get at least 800 views just from my Triberr connections.

And then, there’s Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups (over 20), Technorati… We’ll get you seen, I’m fairly confident… But please SKYPE osakasaul with questions, ideas, and so on.

OsakaBentures: Web-based application ultralight start-up think-tank in Osaka, Japan. Blog promotion, social media marketing and community management are core strengths.
This is but one on the tribes that your guest post would be seen by.
What’s Triberr?

Just last month I published a thorough three-part blog series on just that, and while I have recently greatly reduced my connections and thus optimized my reach further, these articles will give you what you need to know:

1/3: http://ping.fm/tgq3u/2011/08/ranking-reaching-blog-cross-promotion/
2/3: http://ping.fm/GBAOB/2011/08/ranking-reaching-ideal-tribe/
3/3: http://ping.fm/KbVdo/2011/08/ranking-reaching-about-my-tribes/
You tweet your blog, right?

Here I am, in Triberr, and while their stats on reach are grossly miscalculated, anything on my blog definately makes it to at least half the 7 million that Triberr tells us I “reach” – and what’s even better, to many focused audiences, through 120+ painstakingly connected Triberr “teammates’ Twitter accounts:

My Triberr reach, only growing...

http://occupywallst.org/users/OsakaSa...

http://ping.fm/wmH0t

http://osakabentures.com/2011/10/chec...

http://osakabentures.com/2011/10/checking-on-triberr-spoilsports/

Checking on Blog-Share Spoilsports
Posted by OsakaSaul on October 19, 2011 in English | Leave a comment
Workaround: Triberr no longer shows, in tribe member lists, who has us on manual
(But there are simple ways to see who is not tweeting us – and then, delve deeper to see if they are letting through anything from our tribes at all)

Firstly, what’s the problem?

The manual setting: it is great for the individual / problematic for the community. Kindly consider what I just posted in my The Business of Change tribe – where we have a reach of 450,000-plus in Twitter, who knows what we’ll have when Triberr integrates Facebook and/or Stumbleupon, and we have a real spirit that you will find in just a few tribes in Triberr: one of give-and-take, people talking, helping each other offline, and reciprocally-minded actual *community* – and nearly all members on auto:
100% take / 0% give

We do see it, when there is one stinker who will not let through any of our posts. We let it go for a few times, a few of our blog posts that don’t qualify to be tweeted through their account, but then, when they are declining more than they re letting through, we have to take this to mean, “they’re doing 100% take / 0% give.”

How is this okay – even though, sure, for yourself, your own Twitter account, you are doing just fine without our blog tweets? It is not, in fact. We do see it in our Twitter mentions (the CERTAIN way) and we see that and exclaim, “wow, I published 3 times in the last week – and this delicate soul has not deigned to let even one of my articles come out of their precious Twitter account.”

After our mentions, then we look at your Twitter timeline. Low and behold, you let through a smattering of articles – from all the bloggers you are connected to – and, sure as it would appear in Triberr stats and then, in searching mentions, not a single one of our own shows up. In fact, for a certain “suspect,” I went back through TEN DAYS of their timeline; they had not tweeted a single article (!!!) from The Business of Change members. Not a single one from some folks. We do see it, when you let through none of our posts.

We see that in our Twitter mentions: the fool-proof way, since Triberr stats are still iffy. Member do notice, and let me tell you, they call me. “Wow, I published 3 times in the last week – and this delicate soul has not deigned to let even one of my articles come out of their precious Twitter account.

First we see in our mentions that you do not tweet our blog. Then, the Twitter-savvy check your timeline, going back a couple days – to see if you are approving any Triberr tweets.

Triberr no longer shows us that you have us on manual.
The give-away is simply your timeline in Twitter.

Low and behold, you let through a smattering of articles – from all the bloggers you are connected to – and, sure as it used to appear in Triberr stats and then, in searching mentions, not a single one of our own shows up. In fact, for a certain “suspect,” I went back through TEN DAYS of their timeline; he had not tweeted a single article (!!!) from The Business of Change members. Not a single one of ours made the cut. And so, he was asked about this – and when he made it clear he’s continue to decline all our posts, I had no choice but to cut an otherwise incredible guy from our tribe. It just isn’t right – in a community based on promotional reciprocation. Some people will never understand that, though.

When this is going on, members do tell me. People write and SKYPE me, I need you to know. They notice. Please know that. “Auto” is not (yet) a requirement of this tribe.

Reciprocation, however, is. That’s the most basic dynamic of Triberr, after all. We tweet (and later, may also be able to send through other social networks, perhaps) each others’ blog articles.

If you continue to let through nothing, I will attempt to speak with you, learn what the problem is. I certainly listen, and want to know your reasoning. On the other hand, “manual” is not a setting to stay on permanently. We put our trust in your blog; show a modicum of latitude toward ours.

Or leave the tribe.

Got a problem? Talk with each other, or talk with me. Ask members; there are but two in our tribe who I have yet to help with this or that. So, I don’t mean to be a pest. On the other hand, it wont be something that is left to remain unchanged, permanently, if here is a member not tweeting at least MOST of the other members posts. This tribe is strong, we have solidarity, and team players. I want you all in here, grateful you joined. I need not pester you with stuff like this when you are not being a problem – like tweeting NADA from us – and do thank you for your consideration.

When in doubt, from The Business of Change, go to settings and scroll down to Applicant requirements. Be sure we have your main Twitter account installed, and kindly regard the manual setting as a temporary thing, when you find a solvable problem, a stop-gap measure while we work out problems. Because it is not right to use a community where the status quo is for all of us to tweet everything by you while you tweet little to nothing from us. That is something that gets fixed.
I have yet to speak with a member who has no Triberr story

(@birdify & @samanthaluy, sittin’ in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g… Okay, its been a while, but… “private joke,” in my typical poor taste…)

Nearly everyone has something they would like to see done better. Sometimes, I can even help with this and that – when we speak. In fact, as for The Business of Change tribe, there are but two bloggers in our tribe who I have spoken with, and have not helped (yet) with this or that. I do my best with this great thing we have, and while our reach is still under 500K, that’s because I am very selective about taking in additional bloggers. Please do your part with the quid pro quo element and kindly let the bulk of the Triberr tweets through.

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http://ping.fm/iKyqX Having seen this, I am really interested in speaking with JK Allen and you, Deeone, on cross-promotion, getting some really worthwhile people "Out in front." Thanks, Deeone, for suggesting your new FB fanpage, which I liked, and came here to reddit, G+, and Stumble a really worthwhile post! << See what I mean with cross-promotion? (Oh! I almost forgot my ping.fm which sends to posterous, tumblr, blogger... and, and...)

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Who might sponsor such a store in Osaka, Japan?

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Triberr: essentially, your blog posts are tweeted by several other bloggers (who blog on similar topics) and you do the same for them. It runs itself, automatically, but we have manual control when we want it. Please see my 3-part series, explaining most of what you'd need to know... 1/3: http://ping.fm/09yqq 2/3: http://ping.fm/2EyZa 3/3: http://ping.fm/bSFPO

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Perhaps you know of, or use Triberr, but have a still-growing, or rather small reach? And you want your blog post to hit 7 million via 120+ Twitter accounts (including some rather well-know “Twitterati,” actually). With a link back to your site…?
While I cannot give every blogger out I know membership in my Triberr tribes…
To be tweeted by my Triberr reach (over 7M in Twitter), there’s another way: guest post on http://ping.fm/Ck7YO

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Web-based application ultralight start-up think-tank in Osaka, Japan. Blog promotion, social media marketing and community management are core strengths. Welcoming guest posts.

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If Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+, Then Why Should You? http://ping.fm/59INk If for nothing else, you will delight in the infographic in the Amp I made - SauL

Pondering Why Google Execs Do Not Use G+ http://bit.ly/nQKFTk

Pondering Why Google Execs Do Not Use G+

This is my condensed Amp of today's brilliant article in Mashable by Ben Parr. If for nothing else, you will delight in the infographic, "Google Management's Public Use of G+"



Let us know if you believe senior Google staff needs to or need not show they believe in G+ utility - by using their own network.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

If Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+, Then Why Should You?

One of the most important rules in software is to eat your own dog food. The concept is simple: if you have confidence in your product, you should be using it.

Perhaps somebody should tell that to Google’s senior management, because they are failing to eat their own dog food when it comes to Google+.

The results aren’t pretty. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have posted publicly on Google+ 22 times. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt doesn’t even have a Google+ account, nothing short of an embarrassment when company bonuses are directly tied to social media success.

The rest of Google’ senior management isn’t any better. Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora has never posted on Google+ and Chief Legal Officer David C. Drummond doesn’t even have an account. CFO Patrick Pichette, to his credit, has posted several times publicly.

Here’s another shocker: not one of Google’s six independent board members have ever posted publicly on Google+.

Leading By Example

Let’s start out with addressing a few caveats. First, these senior Googlers could be posting a ton privately and we simply don’t know it. But it’s more likely that their lack of public engagement is indicative of their lack of engagement overall. This is especially true of Google’s management, which has an incentive to promote Google+ publicly.

It doesn’t matter how you slice it: if Google’s management truly believed in Google+ as the future of the company, they would be more engaged. Not being connected to a product that has such a direct correlation to the company’s future is dangerous. This is about leading by example. Why should Google employees be excited about Google+ if their managers aren’t excited?

Google’s management is a busy group, but having only three members of its management team post more than 10 times sends a terrible message. It makes people question the commitment Google has to social. Read more at mashable.com

 

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/nQKFTk

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"...a team of Japanese scientists who invented a fire alarm that smells like wasabi"
The Japanese also came away with the "top" Psychology ignoble prize for their in-depth research into why people sign; asked to what end? "My students found that no one had studied that yet." bad science http://ow.ly/6Jdoz those funny japanese

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http://osakabentures.com/2011/09/qualifying-to-ask-for-reciprocal-recommendations/

In an online community (I have built a few) you can
either welcome support from those - like me - who have decided to put
any time at all into what you started. Or, you can turn us off.

I have written about online communities, human dynamics, and believe that my stance on this and that is not enough; I elicit ideas, I take suggestions, and adapt, improve. It will be interesting to see what happens in the vibrant, rapidly-growing group that Kickin' is - when the leadership makes flip decisions based on their personal policies, rather than what is right for the group.

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The overnight flip (example: about.me) is still relatively rare. They get a ton of PR when they happen, but they rarely happen.
And even “quick” flips typically involve a few years of work, a few months negotiating and closing the deal, and then a couple of years of the acquired employees working at the acquiree trying to make the deal work.

http://osakabentures.com/2011/09/equity-acquisition-aimed-light-startups/

Great insights on Klout *http://bit.ly/nqBH67

Great insights on Klout

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All about the latest facts and figures from Klout, you might not actually have come across yet. The best part here is that all information is directly coming from @MeganBerry.

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/nqBH67

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Allocating Equity in Startups Shooting for Acquisition

Guest article, courtesy of Michael Wolfe

Are the new wave of light-funded, acquisition-oriented companies granting their rank-n-file employees equity commensurate with the expected liquidation or relying on older venture-backed equity norms?
And if there is a new allocation model, what are the typical ranges for employees in this circumstance?

It is important to remember that conventions like four year vesting, one year cliff, 20% employee option pool, etc., are conventions and don’t have to be blindly followed.

I feel that four year vesting is appropriate for most companies.

The overnight flip (example: about.me) is still relatively rare. They get a ton of PR when they happen, but they rarely happen.
And even “quick” flips typically involve a few years of work, a few months negotiating and closing the deal, and then a couple of years of the acquired employees working at the acquiree trying to make the deal work. In-and-out in two years seldom happens.
When it does happen, well, the employee only did two years worth of work.

The vast majority of companies don’t get acquired in the first place. They may not even figure out their business in the first two years. Most either fail (in which case it doesn’t matter) or enter a multi-year slog.

So, implying to your employees that you expect to be flipped in two years represents a promise that is very unlikely to be kept.
And it could cause some short term thinking and executing…if none of us will be here in two years, why put a solid foundation in place? And it could attract short term employees.

And unless you want everyone to leave in two years, you’ll need to keep giving new stock grants so that folks always are vesting something.

Which means (and I think this is the real point): you will simply double the amount of stock that the employees are getting since you are vesting everyone twice as fast.

So the result would be larger employee pools, smaller founder pools, smaller returns for investors (unless they get founders to take the entire hit) and smaller acquisitions (since the acquirer will need to dig into their pocket more to provide vested employees incentives to stay).

What Startup Employees Should Know about Their Equity from SecondMarket on Vimeo.

So, I think there is a different question in here, one that I’d recommend someone ask, which is whether more of the value of a startup should be going into employee pockets, not founders or investors.

There are arguments pro and con, however I do not think the possibility of quick flips is one of the more compelling ones.

Looking to support @knikkolette here ...

Looking to support @knikkolette here is her Kickin' It With Triberr Tribe Open Offer:
As promised... we've been working on a system to invite members of #TeamKickin into Triberr and still keep Triberr effective for everyone who participates and keep #TeamKickin growing and active as well as trying to keep everything fair within the group. With valuable insights from the Triberr guru Sual Fleischman and some helpful guidance from another Kickin member, the following is what we came up with:

Kickin’ it With Klout Triberr Rules

Kickin’ it With Klout is starting a new Triberr Tribe called of course “Kickin it With Klout” This tribe is a beta tribe as is the group, so please remember this when we are setting rules and find we may need to change rules. Because this group is based on increasing our KLOUT scores, there will NOT be a minimum requirement of Twitter followers to join Triberr, HOWEVER you are required to use your Twitter account with the largest number of followers to join the tribe as well as these other requirements. You should have a quality blog which you post to on a regular basis. If your regular basis is once a week that’s fine, as long as it’s a set schedule. Please do not post more than once a day as the group grows, posting more than once a day will burden Triberr’s systems. If you post to your blog more than once a day there is a way to set custom rss feeds so only ONE post goes to Triberr. NO “adult” content anywhere on your site. No excessive advertisements, or ads of any kind within a blog post. If we have to “look” for your blog through all of the ads, your blog does not qualify. Proofreading is a must. An occasional error is understandable, but blatant spelling and grammar errors make you and the group look unprofessional and uneducated. When you sign up into the tribe you agree to contribute 30 bones or 1 seat so we can continue to grow the tribe. This is what we are calling a “launchpad” tribe. This is where you will grow and learn about Triberr, then you will start your own tribes. Settings within Triberr. In order for members to be successful in raising their Klout scores, the blog posts need to be tweeted. If it comes to my attention from another member or through observation a member has not been tweeting blog posts on a consistent basis, we may need to review what the issue is and if that member should remain in the tribe. We will always try to come to an agreement through discussion before removing the member from the tribe. Inbreeding. Inbreeding is when you have your own tribe, you have 6 members and you are able to invite members from other tribes to join yours after you spend 70 bones. (these are the current rules - they may change in the future) The Kickin’ It With Klout rules for inbreeding are as follows: a. If you are invited to another tribe through inbreeding you may do so, but you must remain loyal to your original tribe at all times. If you leave your original tribe, this is grounds for being removed from Kickin It With Klout FB group.

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Triberr: the Right to - Abuse of - the Manual Setting

In reply to Makobi Scribe’s firm stance on why the manual mode in Triberr is cure-all, I commented with a very different stance, based on my own experience. This is about blog cross-promotion, .rss syndication, and running a Triberr tribe right.
Excerpt of her post

“I run a forum with some odd 150ish people in it. A lot of us are in the same Triberr group. Outside of that my reach is over 2.5 million so I have heard my fair share of gripes. Here is my response for all those gripes you have, may have, or have had.

Gripe: Someone is not tweeting my stuff.
Gripe: Too many tweets are going out in my twitter stream.
Gripe: I tweeted so and so’s post, but they didn’t tweet mine.
Gripe: There are too many coupons and reviews and giveaways going out.
Gripe: I am tired of tweeting the same posts and opportunities over and over.
Answer: Bummer, put them on manual if it bothers you.

Put them on manual if it bothers you. when people signed up to be on Triberr they did not sign a contract to give you control of their stream. It is THEIR prerogative what they want THEIR audience to read. Put them on manual if it bothers you. Don’t complain, don’t gripe, don’t get all drama over it. Just put them on manual if it bothers you.”
My reply, in comment on her blog

Point noted, and with respect for what you have surely done with Triberr, may I note that the manual setting is problematic.

I, too, have developed tribes, a couple of which are rather prominent and have attracted some rather influential people in media. I provide insights in my very recent http://osakabentures.com/2011/08/ranking-reaching-about-my-tribes which I think you and readers will find enlightening.

The manual setting: let's acknowledge the responsibilities - along with the right to this option.

With manual, members demonstrate their lack of confidence in each others’ blog content, overall. Too much of that, and members on auto begin to think, “why I am going to tweet all of hers’ – when she tweets not one in five of mine?” As I see it, that’s where the tribe you have built begins to fall apart.

As food for thought, from the start, one of the first “power tribes,” launched and recruited for by Dino Dogan, himself, demonstrates his own impatience with the manual setting. From the tribe’s (current to today’s date) description:
Anubis Members: 34 Reach: 433,396 people
“Anubis is a Supertribe. We comment on each other’s blogs and we automatically retweet each other’s posts (no manual mode here.)”

“Hmm…?”

To conclude, while I have problems with the manual mode, as I see it, if you select members very well, here should be nearly no need for it. I, for one, am only on manual in two tribes that I was happy to join – until I discovered that the Chief takes nearly anyone with a big Twitter following. Sometimes you discover these things in time.

For what it worth, I am tweeting this article of yours, having edited – as is our prerogative in Triberr – to “Got a gripe about Triberr? For this Chief, manual mode is a cure-all.”

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Karl L Hughes 5 hours ago
When I first launched a website, I didn't realize this about domain transfers. A few months later, I switched the structure of the URL and lost all my Facebook likes and it really hurt my SEO. Lesson learned: plan ahead!
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Saul Fleischman [Moderator] 40 minutes ago in reply to Karl L Hughes
Thanks, Karl. The FB likes to lose are a downer, eh? However, sometimes other benefits to a domain transfer look appealing.

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I see that my little sister will be back on the East Coast for a week. At the Omega Institute she’s teaching a body workshop. Looks well thought-out, and we all know that on web sites, people like to know us through video. Important for what Rachel Fleischman want to do on her site – bring people to a body movement therapy program she’s leading – and also for her personal branding as well.
But make it good.
I say, the video makes – or breaks – your image, your personal PR focal point.

On http://www.dancingyourbliss.com/ Rachel’s presentation is great. I like this:
Discover. Believe. Dance. Welcome to a new and transformative world. Dance Your BlissTM, has been called a ”top-notch retreat for mind-body-and soul. Get out of your head and into your feet with Rachel Fleischman and your life will change.” (Women First magazine).
Tell me what impression you take of her, from the video, though.

I think someone needed to tell my sister “don’t think sad thoughts, and try again…?” Just me? Or, does Rachel come off as though she’s about to cry if you don’t sign up for her course?
Discover. Believe. Dance.

Welcome to a new and transformative world. Dance Your BlissTM, has been called a ”top-notch retreat for mind-body-and soul. Get out of your head and into your feet with Rachel Fleischman and your life will change.” (Women First magazine).

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Social Media Makers Tribe Showcased
Posted by OsakaSaul on September 5, 2011 in English | Leave a comment

(But not in a good way.)
Lambasted, actually!
Its fun getting people to come around and love Triberr like we do, though.

I found this gem, by one of the great bloggers disgruntled by a rejection or two when applying to join Triberr tribes. For this most thoughtful post, entitled “The Dark Side Of Social Media.” Triberr’s Dan Cristo and I replied to this paragraph in particular:

“…My latest gripe with social media is epitomized by the website Triberr. The website calls itself “The Reach Multiplier” which sounds great in theory. Who doesn’t want more reach for their blog? I blog about things I find important, and while I don’t think I’m a genius or deserve recognition, I do believe that I have educated and valid opinions. If I have the opportunity to get more people to read my blog, I’m going to be intrigued. That’s what got me onto Triberr in the first place. Then I actually figured out what the website does: it is a cleverly disguised spam-a-tron that breeds exclusivity and blog snobs (blobs?)…“

Josh was good enough to include a screenshot (outdated, shows us when we had just a few less members than now, and 400K less reach, but that’s okay) of Social Media Makers:

My reply, in a comment on Josh’s blog should shed light on a thoughtful stance we should extend to fellow tribespeople and those not yet in Triberr, alike:

Perhaps I am the “Blob” / “Blog Snob” / “Pretentious Ass” you refer to? Your screenshot shows my @Triberr tribe, Social Media Makers after all – back when it had 2/3 the reach it does now. That tribe, by the way, is far, far more selective than it was when you took that screenshot. We protect what we have. As Dan Cristo gave example, they are ways of syndicating your blog where you may ‘enjoy’ what comes of a lack of focus or selectivity.
Few bloggers have a strategy or the tools for promotion of their blog.
What’s more, bloggers seek to network, but are usually shouting into the wind.
I help people get heard and get people networking with them: through blogs, Twitter, and cross-promotion.

Few people understand the gamut of Triberr dynamics. Kindly consider that when I include a blogger in a small blog cross-syndication tribe, I need to consider my responsibility – to the 20+ bloggers whose Twitter timelines will also carry the “new guy’s” blog article tweets. I run a tight ship – but that’s why my tribes are the kind you’d like: they are not an “anything goes” deal, but rather, focused. So, sure, I insist on speaking with applicants, and yes, I am discerning and selective.

Social Media Makers: one of the closest-knit tribes in Triberr
We were the first tribe to reach 500K, the first to reach 1M, and will be the first to reach 2 million as well. I continue to firmly believe in speaking with applicants and actual problem resolution; others do it all with a “click.”

This has absolutely nothing to do with “superiority.” This is a misconception, and one that is shared by some other Triberr non-fans – in case that helps you.

On the hand, while I cannot offer entry to any of my tribes to all comers, I am the ONE GUY using Triberr who gladly helps may bloggers enter Triberr in a prudent, optimized fashion – even when, as is typically the case, I simply do not have a perfect fit for them with my own tribes. As Dino Dogan (besides Dan, the other Triberr partner) says, (paraphrasing) “[the mistake people tend to make is searching for the tribe where they'll get the most; you'll do better finding the tribe where you bring the most value to those already in it.] I’ll stand by that. I still help people do that.

A final thought for you: let’s pretend you SKYPE osakasaul and ask me about each and every concern or problem you see with Triberr, and take my answers, peruse evidence to support my stance on this and that and then decide you now want to join. Let’s say you join a tribe with 5 existing members. This would be easy; your writing is excellent, analyses thoughtful… you would have your pick. In this make-believe scenario, the “Chief” is not me, let’s pretend. (You like how he added you with a single “click.” None of my idiotic talking to people is a “good thing,” eh…?)

Okay, but it doesn’t end with your joining. Who will the Chief of the tribe you joined add – from now…? Have you spoken with him? Are you sure you need not be concerned with what his plans are? Is he a sell-out for high Twitter following? (MOST chiefs make this mistake: a knee-jerk decision to accept a blogger imply because he has many Twitter followers.) From the choices they make, I do see that many a Triberr Chief is unengaged, unlistening, and you simply do not know what he is going to do with the tribe – or with you.

Is that actually better than the guy who looks at your blog, listens to you and your concerns – and if he has a lot for you, tells you the good, the bad, the need-to-know stuff and then, only if all that is acceptable to you and I, do I send you an invite? Wouldn’t you rather be in a tribe with bloggers who have joined on that basis?

Be sure to look at what we’re about, and why you’d want to in, how to get in, how to select tribe(s) to apply to. This is a three part series I recently wrote, on Triberr – not as a partner, and thus totally unbiased, and quick to idetify and help people navigate around the least desirable aspects of the otherwise fabulous Triberr:

Ranking & Reaching 1/3: Blog Cross-Promotion
Ranking & Reaching 2/3: Your Ideal Tribe
Ranking & Reaching 3/3: About My Tribes

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Triberr Tripping 2/2
Posted by OsakaSaul on September 3, 2011 in English | 1 Comment

Continuing a terrific exchange of comments with @extremejohn, after reading and commenting on the blog of yet another acquaintance I know through Triberr. I titled this post “Triberr Tripping” because I could really relate with John, having helped a number of people who “tripped up” in the choice of tribes they joined, and pondered tribe-jumping or even leaving Triberr completely.

John replied:

Thanks for stopping by to comment I appreciate your feedback and the great detail you went to in order to explain your thoughts on various Triberr features.

I would imagine everyone’s case is different, but with Triberr and my own experience I can tell you that.

1) I login in and approve/remove posts 2x daily on Triberr. So not being on auto, doesn’t effect those Tribes that I’m in.
2) None of the people I’ve “met” on Triberr, incuding Dino (owner) actually communicate and interact on Twitter.
3) In regards to leaving Tribes that I don’t want to share posts to my “precious Twitter account” from. I wasn’t really faced with that issue until this weekend. I’m not a cat guy, so retweeting posts and Flickr pictures of cats won’t work for my “precious” twitter account. I will be leaving that Tribe.
4) If it’s only the “once in a while post” that I don’t choose to retweet the last thing I would want to do is go auto. It would let those tweets through, and for example sakes use my reference to “cats” above. IF, I just flipped the auto switch, my followers would be like wtf?
5) No one has EVER accepted an invite via inbreeding

Overall there’s a good chance I’ll make the decision to leave Triberr here soon as aside from a few of the same faces retweeting my articles and some nonsensical crying by the member listed above and even Dino himself via an email the other day I’ve seen no real social value in the tool. I’m not an idiot by any means and I get what Triberr’s about and I’m willing to say I know enough about WHO belongs to Triberr and it’s real goal, etc to talk very specifically about what Triberr is about.

I guess it comes down to what Dino said in his response, “People are invited in to Tribes.” Don’t invite me in to a tribe if you haven’t 1) Done your homework on me, because I’m more then fair but I don’t do bullshit and 2) Don’t invite me in to your tribe if you’re just looking for an auto-bot to add to your exposure rate, because I don’t retweet content that has nothing to do with either social media, small business, local business, networking, marketing, recent news, or tech. Pretty broad brush there..

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by and show your support for Triberr and share your insights to a few of the different areas of Triberr.
I commented:

Many thanks for a thoughtful and detailed reply. I needed to wait until I could block off enough time to reply to you diligently. Let me do that point by points, as per you reply.

1) Manual setting: while you log in often, not everyone is as considerate. Also, as the guy who has invested sometimes 1-2 hours to satisfy just one blogger’s concerns that Triberr will not spam or flood their Twitter timeline, and, and, and… I do see it as a comment on their lack of confidence in what I have painstakingly built – when (some, not you) go manual, and while all of us tweet all your stuff, you, in turn pick and choose.
2) Many of the people I have met through Triberr – including Dino – communicate, share, talk guest-blogging, Pam and Janet enlist

other bloggers and influencers into joining their dynamic and educational #getrealchat and other Twitter chats, and so do you. And so do I. We watch our mentions, and when engaged, get talking with you. What can I do to you today, John? See if I’m wrong by mentioning – publicly (though I follow you) – @osakasaul. Only, keep it *extreme*. There are enough niceguys out there.
3) The best of bloggers occasionally post rubbish. Chiefs can’t foresee everything that bloggers he invites will spew out from their blogs. As for the “cat lady,” I totally get that, agree, and have learned that most invites I get should be declined.

You see, while you (correctly) hold the Chief accountable for inviting you, and perhaps not reading enough of your blog to know what he and his tribe members should expect from you, with respect, you will fair better, be far happier if you would take the time to peruse the blogs already associated with a tribe before accepting invites. On the other hand, while the old Triberr member list used to show the blog(s) associated, per member, a glaring missing item is this. O the other hand, go to http://triberr.com/ext/profile-tribe.php?tid=1815 and you’ll see that you can click to any member’s image to pull up their blog.

Dino suggested that he knows of tribe that would work better for you. I do not. I will acknowledge that, further to my suggestion that you look well t the blog in a tribe before jumping aboard, it would take a little time to find one or more that you should be in.

You wrote that you may likely leave Triberr. Many have, many will, and as businessmen, we want to look at what comes back to us for the cost of either:
A. vetting posts with the manual setting that you like or
B. the better solution for me – removing myself from tribes with too many “cat ladies,” building tribes slowly, with bloggers I trust, and then, graciously dealing with the fallout, when one of the usually good bloggers goes cat-lady on us.

In lieu of a parting shot, here’s something fun to try: get yourself into one of the tribes with about 1 million reach, set on manual, let through what you like, and see what love you get from Alexa. Then tell us that the good (value – to you, John) does not outweigh the bad and downright ugly that certainly is still going on in Triberr.



The first part of the opinion-sharing between John and I is in yesterday’s Triberr Tripping 1/2

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Triberr Tripping 1/2
Posted by OsakaSaul on September 2, 2011 in English | 3 Comments

I got into a great exchange of comments with @extremejohn, after reading and commenting on the blog of yet another acquaintance I know through Triberr. I titled this post “Triberr Tripping” because I could really relate with John, having helped a number of people who “tripped up” in the choice of tribes they joined, and pondered tribe-jumping or even leaving Triberr completely. The original article is http://www.extremejohn.com/twitter-tool-triberr-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/


I commented:

John,
Happy to know Robert, Dino, so many great bloggers, businesspeople, real social media thinkers – like you – via Triberr, let me tell you, as for using them thar’ bones, and inviting people, its takes work, but rewards. I have many, many times more ignored invitations than I have people who accepted mu invites. (If you check me out in “members” you may find that I am actually not the worst of the slackers as for taking the Triberr ball and running with it, and a couple of my tribes have some stellar attributes – yet, I am telling you, the majority of bloggers who would immediately take benefit from being in one of my tribes just don’t see how my offer asks little/provides lots.

As for the auto/manual thing, with respect, John, I know that Triberr must have that option in there. It problematic though, because members are always nagging me, “Saul, does that guy EVER tweet your stuff?! Nary a once for me, so, could you ask him to either get down with the program, go auto like the other 90-something percent of us do, or at least be considerate enough to check in to Triberr now and again, and let through SOME of our blog posts?” (John, I know nada about your case – just talking about what I see within two of the Tribes I built myself, okay?).

Finally, enjoy an excerpt from my Triberr “Bonfire” on what Karma actually is – to users, rather than what it is to the Tenacious Triberr Twinz:
Karma

to the Triberr owners, its about up/down-voting blog posts. This makes sense. What makes sense as well – probably even moreso – is what Karma is for Triberr users: the majority of us are on “auto,” and I believe that considerate members on auto are not crying foul when members on “manual” check in regularly and let through a good percentage of our posts. Bad karma, however, is when you are the guy on manual who is enjoying the majority of us tweeting EVERYTHING of yours – but you just pop in to Triberr twice a week and pick and choose only, say, 1 in 3 of our posts that you will deign to tweet. This is “bad karma” – in the eyes of the community. Many members I speak with complain of this, for what its worth. Not a few, but many.

So please, if you will not go auto, kindly recognize that:
1. you are getting more than you are giving, so give what you can; check in daily and let through the majority of the posts (or be considerate enough to leave a tribe in which a big fraction of the blog posts are not worthy of your precious Twitter account);
2. you might consider starting with manual, but if it is a rare blog post that offends your sensibilities, think about changing to auto, please?
Hint: if you are a member of a tribe in which I am the Chief, and you are on manual, I have been defending you; third of the auto-set members are privately emailing/SKYPE-ing me, asking me if you *ever* tweet any of our blog posts. Thus, it has TRULY warmed the heart to see a couple, JUST a couple people change, without being asked, of course, from manual to auto. “Thank you” for THAT good karma.
I’ll tell you that I am starting to think about ways of *gently* coaxing the delicate in our midst – to either remove themselves from my tribes, or go auto. For a while, sure. But when we do not offend, you either go auto or check in frequently to vett posts, or yeah, I will cry “foul.”

Funny stuff going on – people stuff – in Triberr, eh?

The rest of the opinion-sharing between John and I begins with hi reply and is in tomorrow’s Triberr Tripping 2/2

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What are social media hours getting you?

You Knew To Do It

You registered all over, and left a few SNS platforms, but you stayed with plenty, right? You either know better than to automate your outputs too much (or you will figure out in time that it is not the way to go). As such, you are probably spending well over an hour a day tweeting, updating, and blogging. You are making time for G+ (Google Plus) too, now.
Is There ROI – For Your Time?

If good stuff is coming your way, how long has this been going on? Can you trace hard results back to your efforts, correspondence, crap and creations in social media?

As for myself, coming to the end of 2010 I look forward to a 2011 in which I begin to see clients coming my way based on my Japanese blog (in the making). As for what I have taken away from thousands of hours of social media consumption and conversation, looking at where I am now, for 2010 it has been relationships.
Social Capital

The people I know and with whom I have social capital is certainly my most substantial achievement of this year. Several people who I would have to say that I knew marginally, I now know well. People who knew me by name**, location**, or general business-development for Japanese firms, now have a broader understanding of my core strengths. As such, several people have begun considering me for collaboration on projects. Many people I did not know at all are in my sights and/or I am on their mind, and just from 2010 my relationships with them have begun. These include people that I have no doubt I will either send work referrals or receive referrals from, and people that I will think to collaborate with. Even before real cooperative efforts get happening, already there has been some valuable sharing of ideas, along with the basic give-and-take on social media platforms, tools, and tactics to employ. In fact, my website would not have a blog on it at all, let alone two – without the generosity and patience of a very new but most treasured friend.
Relationships Forged Via Social Media

So much of this blossomed for me in early 2010, clearly like never before in my life. I must not be doing all the wrong things. New relationships and fostered relationships are, thus, certainly my most outstanding achievement for the year.
Sharing, Collaboration

How has 2011 been for you, in regards to sharing and collaboration? What has your time invested with us, in social media endeavors, paid off with? Surely relationships are a large part of your take-away from social networking.

Perhaps you are far ahead of me, though; are you also garnering actual paid work through what you do in social media? What was the tipping point for you: what made that happen?

** Who would associate me with a place? Perhaps I am thinking of my main Twitter/SKYPE/just about everywhere-handle, @osakasaul ?

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
Posted by OsakaSaul on August 26, 2011 in English | 5 Comments
Giving my blog an annual break from seriousness: what led to this?

While laid up in hospital last week, recovering from a hernia operation, I had five days without the many people I network with, discover, learn, and share social media and entrepreneurial ideas with, and it occurred to me that I might not be viciously attacked for just this once sharing more of myself.
Call it social media transparency, if you will.

I’d like you to know a much about me as you care to. (And then let’s talk business.)

1. Without surgery, pills, or any help, I lost 55% of my body weight, going from 165.5 to 73.9 Kg in 3 1/2 years. I have kept most of it off, three years since. I continue with my very own program, much of which entails taking a long, brisk walk every morning, regardless of the weather, on an empty stomach. I probably skip that 2-3 hour walk less than 20 mornings per year. The photo below shows me at about 130 Kg; I suppose I wasn’t photogenic enough at 165.5 Kg to get photographed much.

2. My parents were artists, I studied film-making, and nothing was more important to my parents than creativity – except that we question everything. For creativity, my father insisted we not have a TV in our home. From questioning, its no wonder that I am the most devout atheist you might ever know.

And yet, I love believers. I love that you have faith. It serves you well, gives you a peace of mind that isn’t available to me. Don’t ever change. After all, when I croak, I’ll be all dressed up, boxed, baked – and then, nowhere to go!









3. Though I’ve traveled around the world by ship (not the yacht in the photo to the left), been to 18 countries, and speak Japanese, I was the first of my family to drive (age 19) or board an airplane (age 21). I always was curious about foreign lands and peoples, and have been befriending those from places most different than my place of birth from age six – until even now.

What comes of such cultural curiosity?

I have lived close to half my life in Japan and have no yearning to return to Philadelphia. I am often asked if I will ever return to the U.S. Yes, and it may even soon be time for that kind of change for my wife and I. As for where, a place with good living would be nice. I meet great people wherever I go, so that wouldn’t be a problem. I have nothing drawing to one locale or another, though; I have no sense of “home.”



4. I am from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but Philly is a big city, and one of many very different neighborhoods. Mine was hardly the metropolitan, crime-ridden, drug-infested “inner-city” neighborhood that nearly everyone assumes it to have been; we lived a walk away from fields, streams, hills to sled down in the winter, and our backyard was large enough that a game of soccer rarely interfered with my mother’s vegetable garden. My father’s art studio used to be a stable for horses and there were many other houses in our neighborhood that were well over one hundred years old.

5. Thanks to social media, I have met several great new friends, just over the last two years. This is handy since, truth be told, I have had the misfortune of losing many friends due to people (or me) moving far away, an occasional major falling-out, and even early deaths. I make every effort to strengthen relationships, meeting in person with those with whom this is possible, and via SKYPE when it is not. People are very important to me. I try to keep my people close to me, meeting or at least speaking by voice – rather than just tweeting, google+ posting, G+ commenting/hanging out or Facebook-updating with them.





I have gone rogue and off-brand. (It wont happen often. But do let me know if a post like this really irks you.) Tomorrow I m back in the thick of social media, opinionated as usual, with Another Ten Reasons You Get Unfollowed in Twitter.

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Quora vs. StackExchange: Reputation Measurement
Posted by OsakaSaul on March 18, 2011 in English | Leave a comment
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What I have been saying for the last eight months: our entries/votes should be weighted, recommendations and degrees certified, and the full gamut of the reputation management issue dealt with by a professional (i.e. LinkedIn, Quora, StackExchange, Facebook app “Branchout,” etc.) social media platform. This will provide tremendous value to users who evaluate each other regularly.








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Tweeting Just Enough
Posted by OsakaSaul on August 25, 2011 in English | Leave a comment

If you’re actually looking to tweet more often without wasting time, here’s a good way to do it:

First, consider why you’re tweeting. Is it really necessary? Not everyone needs a Twitter account, we’ve only been brainwashed to think so.
Tweet 4 times daily. Writing a tweet takes less than 2 minutes.
Some of these can just be links. That takes even less than 2 minutes, especially if you have a browser plugin.
Use a desktop application (or iPhone) to set alarms at specific times of the day if you’re not tweeting.
If you are new to Twitter, try using Keep on Posting to make sure you don’t fall behind your average tweet frequency.

Got a little more time? Then do what should make up 90% of your timeline: comment on blogs and tweets, and share them in Twitter. Promote others, and the world will love you.

Need followers, no time and no patience for building an account of uninteresting tweeps? This helps and is great for the non-techies out there:

Quickly Growing a Targetted Following:

Most twitter scheduling tools allow you to pre-schedule a selection of posts in a given date and time. Doing this may mean spending more than an hour each day searching for the latest buzz on the Web that you think your followers may find worthy, on top of entering each info into the system… eating up too much of your time already when you could have spent it in talking to your tweeple for real. This is why there are Twitter scheduling tools like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, etc. that let you grab feeds from your favorite blogs or messages from your text file – without you thinking of which time and date it will be posted for the tool will do it randomly for you, as if you’re doing it for real.