Joe-Fernandez, CEO of Klout
This week, Bob and Pat talk with Klout CEO and Founder, Joe Fernandez about this highly influential measure of your online reputation and influence.
Highly influential? Yes. As the web increasingly become the place you work, your Klout score is rapidly becoming the metric you will be judge by if part or all of what you do depends on your online reputation, and your ability to influence others.
Think of it as an emerging standard, already accessed and used by over 3,000 companies via their API, not unlike your credit score. Already, people are getting jobs, angel funding, access to opportunities based on their Klout score.
In this interview we get behind the scenes with the founder of Klout. You will not want to miss this show.
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Relevant Links:
Klout web site.
Klout blog.
Influential?.. “…metric you will be judge by…” Judged by who? Perhaps if you’re in high school?..
What good does it do for those of us who maintain multiple accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook etc. and never cross the lines between private, professional and entrepreneurial lives we live? Shouldn’t we all be “judge” by our “deeds” and not “words” and especially those online ones, that are cheep, as we all know. And by deeds I mean real projects that we can bring to fruition, that can actually help someone, in some meaningful way?..