Methods and apparatus for evaluating members of a professional community
AssigneeSaba Software, Inc.
InventorsRyan Edwin Vesely, Babak Yazdani, Bernard P. Willis
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Abstract
Techniques for evaluating a person who is a member of a professional community involve collecting quantitative information regarding the person's participation in at least one social network. The quantitative information may be incorporated in computing a score indicating the person's value to the professional community.
Claims48
A method for evaluating a person who is a member of a professional community, the method comprising:
- collecting informal engagement information comprising quantitative information regarding the person's participation in at least one social network;
- collecting formal evaluation information provided by one or more managers of the person;
- and
- combining, using at least one processor, at least the informal engagement information and the faunal evaluation information in computing a score indicating the person's value to the professional community.
Apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one computer-readable medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method for evaluating a person who is a member of a professional community, the method comprising:
- collecting informal engagement information comprising quantitative information regarding the person's participation in at least one social network;
- collecting formal evaluation information provided by one or more managers of the person;
- and
- combining at least the informal engagement information and the formal evaluation information in computing a score indicating the person's value to the professional community.
At least one computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method for evaluating a person who is a member of a professional community, the method comprising:
- collecting informal engagement information comprising quantitative information regarding the person's participation in at least one social network;
- collecting formal evaluation information provided by one or more managers of the person;
- and
- combining at least the informal engagement information and the formal evaluation information in computing a score indicating the person's value to the professional community.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.