Comments on: Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online

By: Recruiting? Turn Your Talent Hunt Into Competition With Student Competitions

Recruiting? Turn Your Talent Hunt Into Competition With Student Competitions — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:53:26 +0000

[...] resume that weighs in their forum activity. Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada, wisely explains the near future scenario: “No longer will your resume be your own version of your work history; it will also include [...]

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:05:17 +0000

Absolutely loved the article! You had some great insight on protecting your online reputation! There is a new eBook available right now called “Me Paradox – Gaining the Social Business Edge”, this book addresses protecting your online reputation, both personal and business. I invite everyone to check it out! Again, thanks for the great blog! :)

By: eric Chan

eric Chan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:25:38 +0000

the system will be gamed, just like any other HR system … the question to pose is what is the correlation between their “klout” score and real world performance

i think most people here have seen that just because you can brown nose the boss into getting a good performance review, doesnt mean you are actually good …. or in the modern sense, “experts” write blogs and posts without true expertise

im sure all those wonderful nokia, microsoft, sony and yahoo managers had “great” reputations and performance reviews before dumping their respective companies into the toilet

as they say in the mutual fund industry … past performance is no guarantee of future performance …

if you believe that, ive got some pets.com shares to sell you ;)

By: Honk

Honk — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:50:52 +0000

As someone who does not have and likely never will have a Twitter account, who cares.

After all, never in the history of the world has so much been said by so many people that meant so little.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:27:06 +0000

You’re not alone. It’s Wikipedia page was created in October 2010 and has only had 5 human edits.

By: What’s a Blogger? What’s a Developer? What are YOU, Online? — Global Nerdy

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:40:46 +0000

[...] the recent GigaOm article Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online, Niel Robertson writes that with all the data about ourselves online, coupled with ubiquitous [...]

By: aep528

aep528 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:56:22 +0000

Funny, I never heard of Klout before I saw this article. Minority? Hardly. I would suspect the vast majority of people have never looked at it, because they don’t live in the So-Cal echo chamber.

By: Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online: Tech News and Analysis « | Lots Of Thoughts. That I Want to Share.

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:49 +0000

[...] Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online: Tech News and Analysis «. You can not electronically assess anyone’s true work productivity online. Someone who has exceptional leadership or interpersonal skills can never ever be judged by a machine. That is by a computer’s processing Modus Locus of otherwise. The fact of the matter is people do change by the people they surround themselves with. If they are around terrible ineffective negative people then that is the standard that is set. You stay long enough with that team you see those actions as acceptable and it damages your Ethos. Making it your Pathos. [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:53:06 +0000

Niel,

Thanks for the write up I really enjoyed the perspective you set up here.

I used to think Klout was an amusing and perhaps worthwhile evolution of the social web. But lately I’ve seen this plutonic, top-down measure of influence fail to deliver when implemented in the real world to track and reward social media success.

Humans don’t deal with ambiguety very well and with the rush of all these new social media tools marketers, business owners and consultants look to latch onto any tangible definitive signal to direct their activity.

Unfortunately often these signals turn out to be noise as business objectives and outcomes take a backseat to Klout scores and Facebook Fans. The average person would rather use a shallow signal than take the time to deal with the true complexity and ambiguity of the social web.

By: Michelle Greer

Michelle Greer — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:58:20 +0000

Comparing one’s Klout score to their credit score is a bit much. We still have a long way to go in this field.

The thing no one has tackled in the social media space is my level of expertise about “subject XYZ”. Brian Solis has a Klout score of 86. @shoeblogger has a Klout score of 40. As someone who would market, say, Jimmy Choo shoes, one of these people is much more powerful to me than the other because his audience is targeted. If I can’t find those people, online influence measurements are not as useful as they are being touted.

That being said, we do have to start somewhere and I think the space will heat up very soon and very quickly.