Klout keeps a score of your social media and networks influence and activity. You let the service know your profiles at various social networks. Klout then follows your activity and comes up with a score.
Officially:
Klout is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rate its users according to online social influence via the "Klout Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100.
This excellent article, written by Randy @hilarski, reminded me that I am too a Klout member. According to this article - Klout anybody? - a year ago my score was 33.
First Pleasant Surprise - I am An Expert
Imagine my surprise when I've checked into Klout. I was greeted with this message:
Kloutdeemed me an expert in several fields that I follow. Great!
Second Pleasant Surprise - A Score Of 53
This is detailed page with the history of my score:
You can see how various networks contribute to overall score. A great help! I can learn a lot from these numbers.
To put things in perspective, here is Randy's card with his fields of expertise:
Congrats, Randy! You are doing great. Your years of constant engagement are bearing fruits.
What I've Learned?
I immediately added new fields of expertise to my profile:
I also edited my profile's text to include two URL links. Next I will add more social networks to the profile.
Conclusion
Klout can be a great tool - if you use it! You can:
- check your progress,
- see where you are influencing your followers,
- define weak areas,
- follow the experts in your field and learn from them,
- much more, I am certain ...
Don't forget that this is only a tool. It is a reflection of your online activity. It is not a goal in itself.
Your goal is to publish quality content and share it, to be consistent and honest.
That's all :)
I'll end with my rank within bitcoin field:
0.2% is quite good. But I can and will improve on that.
A tip - hover over the area and a popup window with details will show up as in image above.
@hilarski - thanks again for making me check my Klout profile. I neglected this tool for to long.
Better and better!
These beautiful badges are prepared by @elyaque - thank you!