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Triberr Chief: Let Tribe members choose their settings Manual versus Automatic

[ 7 ] August 23, 2011 | Shelley Zurek

This is my current philosophy as Chief of my Mixed interest Triberr tribe

My current tribe is a handful of fashion, some Mommy bloggers, some craft blogs, and some review bloggers. The thing about being in a “mixed” tribe is that you have different interests so you will not always want to tweet the things that others are tweeting,and others won’t want to re-tweet ALL of your stuff either. Ultimately, I decided to let each tribe member make that call. If they want to set someone on manual, they can. If they want to never tweet someone, they can. It’s up to them. I just like to remind them that it works in reverse too–people will probably set them to manual as well! My viewpoint on Triberr has evolved to this point and I feel it’s the right approach for a Tribe Chief, especially of a mixed tribe. In another, more strict “Giveaway” tribe, I MIGHT have a different approach but in this tribe which is for the members of my 2011 Fall Fashionista Event, I am now feeling this is the best approach. Please understand that Triberr is in Beta and so is my Triberr Chief philosophy. But I really feel that letting tribe members make the choices that work for them, is the best approach!

What I guess I am trying to say, is that Triberr can work for you if you join like minded tribes and set up your retweet policies in a way that works for you. I have lost 5% of my twitter followers since joining two tribes (one is a mega tribe of giveaway blogs) and now being the Chief of my own. But now in the last week, I have gained all the followers I lost and then some. Overall, I feel that Triberr has been great for me. I went up +6 in my Klout in one month and my page visits have been astounding (bear in mind I have had other factors affecting these numbers too).

Here’s a great article from Makobi Scribe with the theme of “Bummer–put them on manual”. Loved it!

Want to understand Triberr better. Triberr Explained: What is it? How do I use it? Tweet Multiplier for Twitter Review

What is your Triberr Philosophy for your Tribe?

Blog Note: I was not compensated for this post. This is my own opinion that I wanted to share to help my tribe!

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Triberr Explained: What is it? How do I use it? Tweet Multiplier for Twitter Review

[ 22 ] August 1, 2011 | Shelley Zurek

Triberr can help your Blog Traffic Explode!

What is Triberr? Briefly:

Note: Updated September 6, 2011

Triberr (http://triberr.com) is a tweet multiplier! For any blog post you do or anyone in the tribe does, a tweet is generated in the stream. You can set your stream for auto or manual. (Most tribe members set on auto) You can look at your stream at any time and you can pause or delete any of the tribe’ s tweets that your readers may find irrelevant or inappropriate. When it says REACH, it means that the members of the tribe all added together have that many followers or reach. So right now, if I tweet something, and everyone lets it go through their stream, I will “Potentially” be seen by 580,00 twitter followers! Make sense? Very powerful. The more tribes you belong to, the more “Reach” you have.

Tribber Home DashBoard

Tribes: Explained Briefly

I can see all my tribes by clicking the tribes button

Tribes are groups of liked minded tweeters who come together under a common purpose. You can find the TRIBES you belong to by clicking on the TRIBES tab once signed into Triberr. I have a tribe for my Fashionista Giveaway Events. I belong to a tribe for Blog Boosting and I am blessed to be in a tribe with the 3 BIGGEST tribe members on Triberr (what were they thinking when they invited me?? ) As a Chief, you start out with 3 tribes with 7 member slots. Your three tribes all have ridiculous names as named by Triberr (like The Sabbath Bloody Twilight)…you can rename them. At this time, you can only be the chief of 3 tribes. You can only join one additional tribe UNLESS that new tribe inviting you has INBREEDING(explained below). A tribe can be as big as it wants to be (possible limit of 150?), but it must always be EXPANDED beyond the initial 7 members by using BONES (explained below). You populate your tribe by inviting people who have never joined triberr before, I think this is the most difficult part of Triberr.

What are Tiberr Bones?

I can see how many bones I have by looking under the BONES tab

At this time, when you join Triberr you are given 100 bones. Bones are currency on Triberr. As of this writing, bones allow you to get into certain tribes, expand the tribe, and trigger inbreeding. It takes 50 bones to join a group if you are not one of the initial 7. It takes 30 bones to expand the tribe. You can get more bones by giving “Karma”–the “Thumbs up” or “Thumbs Down” you will find on your STREAM on the home page tab. Sometimes you get lots of bones for Karma, sometimes you just get one!

Inbreeding–WTH?

Inbreeding on Triberr allows you to add current members of Triberr to your tribe. Inbreeding can start once you have 5 members in a tribe in addition to yourself (the Chief). Inbreeding costs 60 bones to add to your tribe–well worth it!

Karma on Triberr

I can give positive karma by clicking on the thumbs up tab, I can’t understand why you want to thumbs down a fellow tribes member.

At this point, it just seems to me to be a way to get more bones. Also, it’s a great way to keep track of what tweets you have already reviewed and decided not to delete.

What is REACH on Triberr?

Your Reach for all your tribes can be found on your home tab, Reach for a particular tribe is found on that tribes page.

Reach is the number of twitter followers of all the tribe members combined. You can see your tribes reach or your overall reach for all the tribes to which you belong on your Home Tab.

How can I control the Tweets that go out to my followers?

Pausing your own tweet in your “My stream” from your home tab (fig a)

Deleting an individual tweet in your “tribal stream” from you Home screen (fig b)

Setting a tribe member to Manual can be done in your Tribes tab, on the tribes members screen (fig.c.)

Every tribe should have an agreement on what they allow to go out as a tweet. My tribe pauses their own tweets that are out of date, adult related, and inappropriate (fig. a.) for tweeter followers who are not their readers. You can also go in and manually delete tweets out your stream that are not appropriate for your readers (fig b.) For example, if you have a blog for Women over 45–your followers may not care about pregnancy or breast feeding tweets. As well, you can decide to set an individual tribes member to manual and determine for each individual tweet if you will retweet it (fig. c.) Those tweets will be pink in your tribal stream along with tweets that are too close together.

How do I communicate with my Tribe?

You can communicate with your tribe right on the the tribe’s page.

Triberr has many other features and seems to be adding more all the time. So far, I have seen NOTHING but good come from it for my blog. I highly recommend it. Triberr also has a blog which provides answers to many other questions http://triberr.com/blog/