EVALUATING AN IMPACT OF A USER'S CONTENT UTILIZED IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

摘要

A method, system and computer program product for evaluating an impact of a user's content utilized in a social network. Content in a document (e.g., a presentation) that has been posted on a social network environment is detected as being reused by another user in another document. The author of the reused content is then identified. A counter keeping track of the number of times this content has been adopted in derivative works is then incremented. A score (“impact score”), representing the author's ability to influence other users to adopt the author's content in other users' derivative works, is then generated based on the number of times this content has been adopted in derivative works. Social credit is then provided to the author using the impact score. In this manner, recognition is provided to the author thereby providing motivation for users to post created content in the social network.

主权项

1. A method for evaluating an impact of a user's content utilized in a social network, the method comprising:
detecting content in a document posted on a social network environment being reused by a second user; identifying an author of said content; incrementing a first counter keeping track of a number of times said content has been adopted in derivative works; generating, by a processor, an impact score representing said author's ability to influence other users to adopt said content in said other users' derivative works based on said number of times said content has been adopted in said derivative works; and providing social credit to said author of said content using said impact score.