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Steve FranciaSep 30,2009

Ranking Social Media

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In business it's common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on "best seller" charts. While this isn't a perfect metric, it is largely useful due to the innate control built within. There is friction to a sale in that buying something costs money of which people have a limited supply. This makes it so that someone couldn't just repeatedly buy their own song, album, book or movie and have a best seller (not to mention they would be losing a ton of money to the distribution and retail channels).

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Steve FranciaSep 28,2009

My Own Private Blogathon

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Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down … in your blog and tell the world about it.

In an effort to focus on blogging a bit more frequently I have decided to start a blogathon beginning today. I will write a post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next four weeks. I think this rate will permit me to continue to keep quality posts, while increasing the frequency and consequently the quantity. As usual my posts can be expected to be quite random, perhaps more so than ever. This is a major undertaking for me as currently I have been posting about once a month since I started this blog. The goal here is to embark on a blogging journey and hopefully create some great content along the way.

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Steve FranciaSep 10,2009

Featured in CIO Magazine!

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I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and discovering that my blog, this very blog that you are currently reading is one of two blogs featured this month. I am humbled and honored to be mentioned and included with such great peers. To all my new readers I look forward to connecting with you via Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out cio.com for more great content.