"The Love Song of J. Alfred True #Klout" by #UsGuys Caveman

Here we are then, #UsGals and #UsGuys,
When our network's reach grasps even the sky
Like Prometheus Unbound in some old fable;
Here we are, in certain well-formatted tweets,
Quick-edited retweets,
Of restless nights in hot-hash tag hotels
and #coffee tweet-ups that #RingtheTribalBell,
Tweets that follow like an #UsBlogs assignment
Of Round-up intent,
To lead #UsFolk to an overwhelming question
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let Us go and make Our visit.

In the room #UsFolk come and go   
Talking (lately only) of MichelKloutago   

A vile fog now rubs its back upon the HootSuite-panes,   
A vile smoke now rubs its muzzle across the TweetDeck-panes   
Worked itself into the corners of Our evenings,   
Festered like pools of street water in drains,
Fell in some magnificent fashion as soot falls from chimneys,   
Slipped onto #IfThen Island, trading nothing cheap,           
And seeing it was a soft eternal night,   
Took over the house and refused to sleep.   

#UsGuys - How to build Off-line Klout: A Real Estate Broker's Perspective

The #UsBlogs Week 3 theme "How Do You build Klout Off-line?" has me smiling. I have to avoid the temptation to say simply "the same way you build Klout on-line." Because what fun is that? I love the theme of SM/IRL correlation. 

I suppose some philosophy and examples are in order.  I tied real estate experience in to my article for the #UsBlogs Week 2 Theme: Leadership in the 21st Century. Figure I might stick with that trend for this article.

1. Introduction - A Real Estate Broker's Take on How to Build Off-line Klout
2. Passion - Believe in What You Do
3. Method - Do What You Do Well
4. Method Part 1- Accomplish Multi-Marketing Goals in Every Task
5. Method Part 2- Participate in Local Business Initiatives
6. Method Part 3 - Keep Team Building
7. Method Part 4- Encourage and Nurture Referral Network
8. Klout -  Inspire Others to Believe in You and What You Do
9. Conclusion - Bringing Off-line and On-line Klout in Harmony
10. Recipe for the Never-Ending Feast
11. #UsBlogs Week 3 Round-up - More Articles from #UsGuys

A Show of Hands: Age-Old Leadership and the 21st Century #UsGuys

"I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fix'd and resting quality, there is no fellow in the firmament." –Julius Caesar, from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

1. A Show of Hands: A Leadership by Example Experiment
2. One Sign Makes Two: The Value of Constant Signal Demonstrated by Real Estate Marketing
3. Social Media Transparency: A New Movement of Leadership by Example
4. Social Media for Business: Adam Singer v. the New York Times 
5. Of the Real and the Virtual: Marketing What is Unique
6. Conclusion: Bringing it Back to Leadership by Example in the 21^st Century

A Show of Hands: A Leadership by Example Experiment

Fairhaven High School

 My junior year in high school, I attended a leadership workshop on a regional level. In one of the workshop modules we devised a simple plan to demonstrate the power of Leadership by Example. We then challenged ourselves to return to our respective schools, put the plan in action, and see it work for ourselves. On behalf of Fairhaven High School, I pledged to carry out the plan.

The next afternoon, I sat in English class. The whole class was silent and busy taking a vocabulary quiz. I finished earlier than my fellow students and this free time gave me the opportunity to execute Plan Leadership by Example. So I raised one hand and held it in the air.

"Klearly a Krock: a Kruel Poem of Klout" #UsGuys

Out, out, oh K.O. Klout!
How klearly a-klanking krock u r!
Oh sure, u kan kloud my eyes
& klaw my nerve energy, u kan,
with ur klunky Klout score klues =P
& all the klattering artikles about u.

But u don't give me ideas about SM,
& u kan't help me write my blog,
& no one komments bekause of u,
& u kan't komment on my behalf,
& u kan't tweet my tweets, like
my likes & retweet my following. (kan u?)

OK (u gave me this 1 kool idea)
still, u r just 1 feather in 1 of my kaps,
which i wear maybe once a month.
So Y do u get talked about so much?
U do so little 4 #UsGuys & #UsGals,
I Kontend: U Kneed 2B Knocked Out!

KO Klout Kwikly

"It becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. Let him not quiet his belief that a pop gun is a pop gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time...free should the scholar be, free and brave." - Emerson, from "The American Scholar"