Looking at Spock
I’m about to do a complete ‘about face’, or at least that’s what it might seem to some.
For those who read my recent post on Mash they’ll know how I feel about others creating a profile for me at a networking site and then being invited to join that site. I wasn’t happy about it and still don’t agree with it - particularly if you can’t see what’s been listed before joining.
Recently I was encouraged to come visit Spock. I had declined invitations last year - I belong to many forums and networks now, why would I want to join another? And at that stage it was another one behind closed doors.
The person who encouraged me to go take a look recently I have a lot of respect for and is a very well connected person here in Australia, with respect to networking. So I went and looked since it’s now open. I was surprised to see that a number of people had gradually been compiling information about me, based on existing websites and profiles. So they hadn’t written any information about me, just connected websites to my name and added tags about who I am and what I do.
It works like a wikipedia - about people instead of things.
It was up to me to claim the profile as mine and then say ‘yes’ to everything listed there and ‘no’ to anything I didn’t want, or what wasn’t mine. So in a short space of time (I claimed it 2 weeks ago) I’m suddenly in the top 1% of people on Spock. How did that happen?
Why not go take a look for yourself - you might find your name listed too! And if you do, make sure you pop by and let me know at Spock.
I am just discovering Spock myself, but I think those links that show up are Google search results rather than being put their by another user. It is an interesting tool, but I don’t quite understand the benefit. I hope you will write more about it as time goes on!