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Note: I suppose this post is not going to endear me to those who may have been involved with some of these aspects. Those who know me, have followed me
for any length of time or who may have been unfortunate enough to only sample a
subset of my tweets know that I'm not the most politically correct person. I’m
not calling out specific accounts and perhaps some of the accounts involved may
not even be aware of their involvement.
The Ugly
1. Voter Fraud – One Vote per Person Please!
What ever
happened to one vote per voter? It’s a shame a few people – maybe from my home
town of Chicago – voted for their candidate(s) multiple times. For example, the
following was observed:
a. A company having multiple twitter accounts
used each account to vote for their candidate(s.)
b. One dad voted for his son using – at least -
3 separate accounts; all within one minute of each other.
c. Some created a new twitter account
specifically to vote for their candidate. Some of these accounts didn’t even
have any followers or even make any other tweets after voting!
What’s next?
Employing gangs of low-paid ‘click farm’ workers in Bangladesh to generate votes?
2. Extreme Self-Promotion
There’s
nothing wrong with promoting oneself and many of those making the top 20 did a
little promotion. But some were a few that were just over the top with the following - even a few days into the event after several requests were made to avoid excessive RT's and "non-voting" chatter.
a. RT’ing every single tweet that mentioned
them.
b. Thanking every single tweet that mentioned
them and then RT’ing that tweet just for good measure. Gratitude is a nice
thing – within moderation.
c. Creating specific instructions and a
template to make it easy for people to nominate themselves or their candidate –
or was that their boss?
I imagine all the above also made tallying the results more cumbersome?
I imagine all the above also made tallying the results more cumbersome?
3. Company Affiliations
A couple
company accounts really went overboard with their enthusiasm for their brand
and executive. I’ve read several posts about the #HIT100 being limited to
individuals and I totally agree.
4. Naysayers
There’s one
(or two or three) in every crowd.
Shortly after the event started, a couple disgruntled tweeps started
complaining that most of those at the top of the list were not deserving of
their rank. Talk about painting all the pennies with the same brush!
Another
moaned and groaned that some high-level health care IT folks were not high
enough up the list or not even listed - even though most of the people they
noted are not active users of social media and/or even involved with
information technology.
5. Hashtag Hijackers and Hookers
The #HIT100
hashtag got hijacked a few times and quite a few XXX and other ‘cretins of the
Net’ came out in their attempt to collect clicks. I suppose this is actually a sign of the
growing reach of the #HIT100?
Fortunes and Influence Do
Change
One web site
that listed the 2013 #HIT100 nominees noted the following:
Many of the
"winners", identified by their Twitter handles, will be familiar to
most readers, but a comparison with last year's list reveals how fortunes, or
perhaps influence, can rise and fall as the years go by.
Indeed
fortunes and influence can wax and wane as years go by. And in the case of this
year’s #HIT100, some fortunes and influence – at least as measured by ranking
in the HIT100 – rised and fell due to a few people who decided to Ugly Up in
an attempt to garner votes for themselves and/or their candidates.
Footnotes:
2011 – #HIT100 List http://nateosit.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/hit100-the-list
2012 – #HIT100 List
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hit100-2012-list-revealed
2013 – #HIT100 List
http://www.healthcaretechnologyonline.com/doc/hit-100-list-unveiled-0001
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