{"id":1959,"date":"2011-10-23T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-10-23T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T08:13:29","slug":"our-klout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Our &#8220;klout&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klout.com\/home\">Klout<\/a> is a service that attempts to measure how much influence an organization or individual has based on a complex algorithm linked to their presence on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It&#8217;s been getting a lot of publicity lately &#8211; here&#8217;s one example, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/08\/start\/you-are-a-number?page=1\">Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Klout claims to measure the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>True Reach: How many people you influence<\/li>\n<li>Amplification: How much you influence them<\/li>\n<li>Network Impact: The influence of your network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Klout makes it relatively easy to look at unions, as they have a specific &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/klout.com\/#\/topic\/labor\">labor<\/a>&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>Klout gives sites a rating from 0 &#8211; 100. \u00a0The average rating is around 20. \u00a0All the union websites we looked at rated higher.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a random selection of a couple of dozen union sites from the USA. Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany and global &#8211; note that LabourStart&#8217;s ranking is actually quite high.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>AFL-CIO (USA) 70<\/li>\n<li>SEIU (USA and Canada) 67<\/li>\n<li>Working America (USA) 66<\/li>\n<li>UNISON (UK) 62<\/li>\n<li>PCS (UK) 61<\/li>\n<li>UnionPlus (USA) 60<\/li>\n<li>Unite (UK) 58<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/klout.com\/#\/labourstart\">LabourStart 56<\/a> (click on the link to see more details)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CUPE (Canada) 55<\/li>\n<li>ACTU Rights at Work (Australia) 51<\/li>\n<li>UFCW (USA and Canada) 50<\/li>\n<li>TUC Global (UK) 49<\/li>\n<li>ITUC 49<\/li>\n<li>IG Metall (Germany) 47<\/li>\n<li>IWW (46)<\/li>\n<li>CAW (Canada) 46<\/li>\n<li>UNI Global Union 45<\/li>\n<li>DGB (Germany) 44<\/li>\n<li>Australian Workers Union (Austalia) 42<\/li>\n<li>ETUC (Europe) 41<\/li>\n<li>SIPTU (Ireland) 37<\/li>\n<li>IFJ 29<\/li>\n<li>IMF 27<\/li>\n<li>IUF 21<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klout is a service that attempts to measure how much influence an organization or individual has based on a complex algorithm linked to their presence on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It&#8217;s been getting a lot of publicity lately &#8211; here&#8217;s one example, from Wired. Klout claims to measure the following: True Reach: How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}