SOCIAL INFLUENCERS DISCOVERY
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1. A method performed on a computer processor, said method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of categories;
for each of said categories in said plurality of categories;
retrieve documents from a plurality of communication media;
identify a plurality of persons having expertise in said categories;
for each of said persons, create an influencer profile and determine an expertise rating based on said documents; and
for each of said persons, determine an influencer type and an influencer type strength, and store said influencer type and said influencer type strength in said influencer profile.
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Abstract
Social influencers may be identified for specific usage contexts and for influencer type. Influencers may be categorized by mavens, connectors, salesmen, or other categories. Within each usage context, a unified data model may be used to collect data from multiple sources, including multiple social networks, as well as to collect data from different levels of influencers in each usage context. The relevance of various communication media as well as the frequency and quality of use of the media may be factors used to determine a person'"'"'s effectiveness as a specific type of influencer within a usage context.
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1. A method performed on a computer processor, said method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of categories; for each of said categories in said plurality of categories; retrieve documents from a plurality of communication media; identify a plurality of persons having expertise in said categories; for each of said persons, create an influencer profile and determine an expertise rating based on said documents; and for each of said persons, determine an influencer type and an influencer type strength, and store said influencer type and said influencer type strength in said influencer profile. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system comprising:
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a scanning system that scans an online document source to identify persons that have been active in a first topic; an analysis tool that analyzes said persons to identify a plurality of persons that meet a set of influencer criteria, said set of influencer criteria being determined for each of a plurality of topics; said analysis tool that, for each topic in said plurality of topics, determines a ranked list of influencers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method performed on a computer processor, said method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of categories, said categories being defined in a hierarchical tree of categories; for each of said categories in said plurality of categories; retrieve documents from a plurality of social networks; identify a plurality of persons having expertise in said usage context; for each of said persons, create an influencer profile and determine an expertise rating based on said documents; and for each of said persons, determine an influencer type and an influencer type strength, and store said influencer type and said influencer type strength in said influencer profile. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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