A way to measure influence? See this Social Media Index
Categories: Social Media MeasurementPosted on July 17th, 2007In the past, I’ve been a critic of Technorati rank as the only way to measure influence, that’s because certain A-listers have learned how to link bait by saying outrageous semi-truths/lies to get attention.
I like the methodology used by this Social Media Index (one of many that will appear) that uses a variety of rankings from mutiple platforms (not just blogs). While the blog rankings and attributes associated it with it are high, there are other uses, such as one’s LinkedIn network, Twitter network, and how many images are associated with a particular person or brand, and even delicious.
What’s interesting is that there’s a mixture of corporate blogs as well as personal blogs. I’d also note there’s a few other data points that could be added to the measurement: Number of comments per post, stumbleupon (I get a lot of traffic from there) and emerging attention trackers like compete.com.
Fortunately, I made this list, and now I’m linking to it, so it goes.
If you want to learn more, click on the ’social media measurement’ tag above this post to see all posts. While we’re on the subject of Social Media Measurement, I’ve a white paper coming out that I co-authored with Matt Toll of Factiva Dow Jones, an article for Website magazine, and I’ll be speaking at Jim Sterne’s eMetrics conference in the east coast in Oct regarding new practices and attributes to measure in social media. Stay tuned for details.
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I am with you when it comes to a way to measure that is more comprehensive than a Technorati rank.
Are the number of friends you have in the various social networking sites or the number of images you have uploaded to flickr really relevant data points?
This seems very open to spamming to artificially bump up your numbers.
Posted by Elroy Jetson on July 17th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Excellent point Elroy.
I agree, there needs to be some qualatative measurements too.
How about when people tag your site on delicious? Looking for those high quality attributes are difficult to find.
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