Check out Rockstar.com – a social platform built by South Africans originally for the CRM community. They have recently expanded it to include SharePoint.
http://rockstar365.com/veroniquepalmer
Although I really like the rockstar365 idea, how does it compare to all the other influencer sites like klout, kred, peerindex etc.?
Though I currently rank surprisingly high, I know it cannot be true. There are so many well known “SharePoint rockstars” who have just not signed up or filled in data.
And they probably won’t as long as the ranking algorithm is so intransparent as it is now.
Here are my main concerns:
- The MS expertise level is totally unclear! It changed for me several times (going up) without me changing anything in my profile. The certificates themselves don’t mean so much either. For one many ppl just got them with braindumps and second there are so many real expert out there who don’t hold any exam at all.
- The ranking does not allow you to see who are the others in your country/worldwide. When I see such a ranking I would also expect some kind of leaderboard.
- The project experience just sums up the timespans. That resulted in 25 years of SP experience for me as I always have many projects at the same time… 🙂 And no, I didn’t start with SharePoint at the age of 10 long before Tahoe was released :o)
- The whole influencer level thingy does not really say anything so far. What does each level represent? What goes in it? Who do I influence and how? Does it change over time like in Klout or is it static?
Don’t get me wrong (and sorry for the rant), I think such a ranking is fun primarily because some kind of competition is fun and everybody likes to measure with others 🙂 Also the other mentioned influencer sites are not that much better regarding transparency.
@Veronique: My reply is not personally directed to you mor to Paul, but you brought up the topic 🙂
@Paul: Could you give some more insights how it works and your future plans?
Thanks Paul,
I also had a question about the “Team Profiles”. I know that currently you form teams from all the people who signed up with the same email domain. (ex. @company.com).. however for all my “personal” profiles I use hotmail/outlook.com. Since you never know when you change jobs, I want to keep control of all my profiles.
Is there a way for more people to join a company, by request / a password, even if they didn’t sign up with the same email domain?
Hey Vlad,
We think you are already a SharePoint Rockstar!
A number of factors contribute to community influence, including who you reference, who references you, how you share your profile, how it’s viewed etc.
As with the entire ORDO ranking engine, it continues to evolve all the time. In the near future the community influence factor will begin taking even more data into account including blogs etc. etc. (please excuse the limited detail here, we will share more via our blog and mailers as it lands).
HIGH 5 for your awesome ranking so far!
Paul
I am a RockStar in the making :). rockstar365.com/vladcatrinescu
I wonder what their community influence algorithm is?
