As the use of social networks increases, so to do the methods of measuring influence. Three platforms which evaluate your social activity and influence are Klout, Kred and PeerIndex. Social tools give individuals a mass-broadcast platform, which is more networked and therefore offers a potentially broader audience than any soapbox, pulpit, microphone, newspaper or television broadcast. …Read More…

The year was 1994, and I was attending a seminar on the rapid uptake of online technology. The presenter, an executive of AT&T Asia Pacific, displayed a single graph of quantity over time, and told us to think of it whenever he mentioned statistics: number of people online, companies online, domain names registered, emails sent, …Read More…