Comments on: Who are Klout’s Top 10 healthcare social media ‘influencers’?

By: Kathleen Malaspina

Kathleen Malaspina — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:31:03 +0000

I,too, was surprised that Lee Aase was not on the list. Before Lee raised the profile of social media in healthcare, a lot of people in the industry had no idea how to tackle the subject.

By: Shelley Webb

Shelley Webb — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:11:56 +0000

As the top influencer in eldercare and eldercare-seniors (I have no idea what the differentiation is), I believe that I should be on this list as well. Is eldercare NOT healthcare?
That being said, Klout leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve been sharing via social media on my ShelleyWebbRN account since 2008 and have a score of 54 with over 9000 twitter followers and YET, my socialMediaBySW account which is only 2 months old, has just over 600 followers, has a score of 41 and has not been connected with Facebook, Google+, Linked In or 4 Square.
How does this make ANY sense? (I do like the perks though….:)
~ Shelley

By: Rohn Jay Miller

Rohn Jay Miller — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:39:16 +0000

Klout is a blunt instrument that measures something, but it’s sure not “social influence.” They scrape social content and assign scores to people–99.5% of the people with Klout scores never registered for one. It’s done without your permission and with no accountability. They assign scores to kids under 18 without accountability. Their paradigm is that all of your social influence can be reduced to a number between 1–100. Influence in what? Just look at the list above–and the important people missing from it. To glom on to a poor thought out, poorly executed idea like Klout and give it credibility with an article like this is irresponsible. Just because they have a “$30 million C round of investment,” doesn’t make them legitimate. Ignore this who Klout mess and wait for better, ethical means to come.

By: Gregg Masters (@2healthguru)

Gregg Masters (@2healthguru) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:42:58 +0000

it’s all about the algorithm.

By: Debbie Donovan

Debbie Donovan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:23:45 +0000

I agree — Lee Aase has been leading the charge for years. I will add Jonathan Richman of Dose of Digital/Possible Worldwide. If not for him, our conservative industry’s companies would totally in the dark.

By: Kathi Browne

Kathi Browne — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:56:12 +0000

Klout has a few faults in establishing the top accurately. For example, in the case of healthcare, there are several topics AND YET Health Care Reform (commonly marked as #hcr) is not an available topic AND it can’t be added. For some reason, Klout doesn’t pay attention to some hashtags, even though they are well-recognized. I think if you will search on some of these hashtags in healthcare, you will find there are other influentials (like @consultdoc) out there who are even more informed and generously sharing really good info. Not to take away from the value the 10 above offer. They are all great Health Care follows.