The influence project
I stumbled upon the fast company influence project last night.
I must admit that I am very taken aback by this concept and was puzzled to see how it works. I thought that it would use your name and create an influence rating from search traffic that you have created.
Instead this website tracks a defined URL that you are given at when you register for the influence project. Basically you have to create traffic to his URL and get your rankings higher and higher.
My thoughts to be honest are that yes it is a brilliant idea to see who the influential force of 2010. However could this not be classed as a brilliant link baiting exercise that will only make the fast company become a bigger brand.
I mean to be honest this URL that is provided can only be used in conjunction with the website and will not be linked to any other social media resource, such as twitter or Facebook.
I really think that this would work better if it was able to take precious weary results and get a better influence rating.
Even though I am picking faults with this I am still going to complete this project to see how much influence I can place upon people out there.
So here is my personal influencer.
