Today, there’s a new roundup of the 50 of the most powerful and influential women in social media. Kudos to Ron Hudson for coming up with the idea. Hat tip to @resourcefulmom for sending a link via twitter. The list came from twitter suggestions, which is one way to generate nominations based on popularity at a particular platform.
For fun, I decided to see how my rankings stacked up. I was surprised to see this blog ranks in the top 30 most influential women in social media, using the author’s Alexa ranking criteria. But, to me, this really isn’t accurate when you consider how many other powerful women in social media are also not on this list.
Generating this kind of list is a good way to get attention – for you and the people who make it. To further personalize and quantify the results, brand your list. Invite suggestions for additions, including from those who nominate themselves. And, if you think you should be on a list write your own post about where and how you fit in.
Your Turn
How do you decide who’s influential? How do you value Alexa rankings?
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Hi Barbara,
I think there are tons of metrics such as Alexa Rankings to quickly determine who’s influential. Based on this alone, I’d also make it to that top. The same works for AdAge, only they combine enough metrics to make it more relevant. And I think any objective top would be based on some kind of metric, from ranks to number of followers on different social media sites.
Personally, I consider influential the people who inspire large groups of people, whose advice is valued by many, whose every presentation at industry events leaves participants with something useful, etc. Yes, number of readers, press (off and online), all these also matters, but those one considers truly influential are always a personal choice.
Alina Popescu’s last blog post..How Can You Control Who Uses Your Name?
Hi Barbara,
I think there are tons of metrics such as Alexa Rankings to quickly determine who’s influential. Based on this alone, I’d also make it to that top. The same works for AdAge, only they combine enough metrics to make it more relevant. And I think any objective top would be based on some kind of metric, from ranks to number of followers on different social media sites.
Personally, I consider influential the people who inspire large groups of people, whose advice is valued by many, whose every presentation at industry events leaves participants with something useful, etc. Yes, number of readers, press (off and online), all these also matters, but those one considers truly influential are always a personal choice.
Alina Popescu’s last blog post..How Can You Control Who Uses Your Name?
Thanks for your comment, Alina! I agree, ranking is different than influence as is popularity. Do you think there are different levels of influence?
Thanks for your comment, Alina! I agree, ranking is different than influence as is popularity. Do you think there are different levels of influence?
Alexa simply means you have built more links to your site, have better search engine optimization or spend more on Adwords…doesn’t mean much beyond that.
R
Alexa simply means you have built more links to your site, have better search engine optimization or spend more on Adwords…doesn’t mean much beyond that.
R