View Your Kred Story for Social Influence Data

Allison Howen — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:30:00 GMT

If you are bummed about your new Klout score, you might want to head over to the other social influence rating site – Kred – for a new way to discover your social influence.

Kred just launched Kred Story, which enables users to understand their influence by displaying a personal and visual stream of their social media history.

"Kred Story is the culmination of many years of research by PeopleBrowsr," says Andrew Grill, CEO, Kred. "It shifts the emphasis from scores and data to people and their content. Kred Story gives everyone access to social data in an intuitive format that enhances their social media experience. It makes influence metrics useful for all of us."

Kred Story's visual streams are generated from a person's social media posts, interactions, links and photos. However, users also have the ability to view social streams from friends, brands or publications. For example, entering a name, such as @CNN, produces an overview of the company’s most influential content that has been shared on Twitter. Viewers can also zoom into the searched stream in order to view insights on interactions and posts. Additionally, users can enter hashtags to create Kred Stories from trending topics.

According to Kred’s Blog, “Kred Story moves the conversation about influence away from numbers and data to bring it back to the best thing about social media: the ability to connect with people who have things in common and shared passions.”

In order to leverage this new social influence tool, users must request an invitation – which is available at www.Kred.com.

Gaining Social Kred; Watch Out Klout!

Allison Howen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Watch out Klout — there is a new social influence rating system in town — and it goes by the name of “Kred.”

Kred, a social scoring system that measures a user’s influence and outreach, was launched today by social analytics company PeopleBrowsr. Kred provides its users with a complete score based on their influence and outreach within affinity-based communities.

"Kred is built on the fundamental belief that we are all influential somewhere," says PeopleBrowsr CEO Jodee Rich. "Kred asserts the importance of trust and sharing in human relationships. By allowing individuals to be recognized as influential about their passions, Kred shifts the attention on social networks from celebrities back to the true heart of human relationships — connections with trusted friends and subject matter experts."

Kred calculates the dual scores of influence and outreach by analyzing a person’s ability to inspire action, as well as monitoring the level of user's interactions with others. Influence metrics include replies, retweets, likes and new followers; while outreach metrics include conversation initiations, interactions and spread of content.

Additionally, Kred scores emphasize the importance of close networks with similar types of people by offering scores for communities that are formed around interests. Engaged community members will have a higher score than an unengaged community member, regardless of the number of followers each member has.

Kred also recognizes influence from the offline world, by allowing users to add real life recognition and honors to their scores. Examples of offline influence include athletic achievements and club memberships. However, it is not clear how Kred can confirm these offline achievements.

The service is free but currently sign-ups have to be processed, and it could take up to seven days to receive an invitation. Furthermore, invitations won’t start being sent out until October 6.

So the question is — would you rather have Klout or Kred?

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View Your Kred Story for Social Influence Data

Gaining Social Kred; Watch Out Klout!

Watch out Klout — there is a new social influence rating system in town — and it goes by the name of “Kred.”