Breaking News: Empire Avenue Adds Influencer Scores

Posted on July 26, 2010 by William Pitcher

As you have likely seen by now, Empire Avenue has added Influencer Scores to the profile pages on the site.   By clicking on one of the scores, you can get a detailed explanation of these numbers.  In short, the scores are numbers out of 100 based on activity, audience size and audience engagement.  Currently, the scores are in beta and the algorithms used to calculate the scores can be expected to change.  Furthermore, Blog scores have not been added yet.  (You can guess how thrilled I was about that news ;-)  The next scores provide the clearest insight into the EA market makers yet.

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Look Who’s Influencing Now: The Podcaster

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Joanne Costello

Meet Allen Sale. Allen is the Executive Producer of Astral Audio Productions, an audio drama group that is currently working on creating a podcast novel due out in late October. His current podcast covers a wide range of music styles so be sure to subscribe and tell others if you dig the music.

Next, Allen gets outside the box with EA.  Continue reading →

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Building Your Twitter Followers

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Adriel Hampton

Adriel Hampton discusses a good Twitter tool for following Empire Avenue people. TweepML allows you to follow entire lists of people automatically as if you were adding them one at a time.  TweepML will compare a list of matching Twitter Users adding those people you are not already following and showing you those that you are.

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Are You Really a Hero?

Posted on July 25, 2010 by William Pitcher

I once heard a great line that I make a point of remembering all the time.

“Everyone is the hero of their own story.”

In case you don’t get it, it means (except for those with real self-esteem issues) very few people go around thinking, ‘You know, I am a jerk. I treat other people really lousy.’  When differences occur between people, we tend to think, ‘I am in the right, and the other person is in the wrong.’  I am reminded of this from my experiences growing up in the restaurant business.  You see some doozy people waiting table, but then, I would be in some store, doing something boneheaded, and in a moment of insight, I would realize, I am being one of those customers.

Next, life in the mirror.   Continue reading →

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Blog Influence: But, But, I Can’t Write

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Cliff Riseborough

With social media and personal blogging exploding in to a busier segment of the online world with each passing day, a number of people are starting join in who previously would never have considered writing on a regular basis. Maybe friends have started blogging, or you’ve decided you want to make your voice heard online. Whatever your reasons, you’ve set up a blog but you simply don’t know quite what to do with it. And at the same time, it seems like such a silly thing to have trouble with that you don’t even know where to turn for help.

Next, just be yourself.   Continue reading →

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Webnotes: Gamifying Blogs

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Colin Eagles

Turning social networking into a game is one of the strongest selling features of Empire Avenue; it’s why many of us are so hooked on it.  A site called DevHub is trying to do the same with blogging.

Next, revenue sharing.   Continue reading →

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A Great Beginning

Posted on July 23, 2010 by William Pitcher

The Empire Building Network is a month old today. Okay, truth be told, EBN isn’t a month old, it was just Empire Building until recently when I realized that search engine optimization really called for another word (darned Empire State Building).  I am glad now that I had to get a .net URL because I couldn’t get .com.  Actually, Empire Building is older than a month because I first had the blog on Tumblr which we quickly outgrew.  And then I really just now realized that even here, the site is older than a month.  I was going by Google Analytics, but I didn’t hook that up for days.  The first post was on June 9th.  So, I guess the site has lots of birthdays.

Next, impressive numbers.   Continue reading →

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Adding a last.fm Feed

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Corey Tyhurst

last.fm is a great service for finding music you normally wouldn’t listen to, but that suits your musical tastes. I have received a whole bunch of questions on how one can add their “Recently Played” songs to Empire Avenue. Well I am writing this to give you a step by step answer. I cannot take credit for figuring this out. I am throwing this post together quickly due to high demand and I can’t seem to find the message from the person who let me in on this info sometime last week. If this person is you, please DM me on Twitter and I’ll gladly give you the shoutout here!

Next: Step-by-step instructions.   Continue reading →

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Look Who’s Influencing Now: The Writer

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Joanne Costello

Meet Brent Knowles. Brent is a game designer (formerly with BioWare — Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur’s Gate) and writer (recent winner of the Writers of the Future Contest). His stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies, including On Spec, Tales of the Talisman and Neo-Opsis.

Next, Empire Ave, more important than the wheel.  Continue reading →

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What Business Are We In?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Corey Tyhurst

“What Business Are We In?”

These words were asked by Sharyl Sandberg when she was hired as the COO of Facebook in March 2008. These are the words in the new book The Facebook Effect, which I highly recommend. The deeper I got into this read, the more I wanted to write a post about the business aspect of Empire Avenue. I wasn’t sure how to do it until Elle Thibeau really got me thinking with her post on Wednesday. Her provocative argument on whether the current share upgrade system makes sense got me thinking…. Why does Empire Avenue Exist? What busines are they in? Up until this point its been a fun game to meet people and build some traffic to your personal online profiles. However, I think EA has some disruptive things planned in its near future.

Next: Setting their sights high.   Continue reading →

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