Before we begin, we’d like to once again thank our amazing community for the support that you have provided SFN in the past year. Although we still have a lot of room to grow, the SFN blog and message boards generated over 4.4 million pageviews on 1.8 million visits from over 330,000 unique visitors [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
Got to tell you that some of the recent quality this site is producing and the progress that we are making as a wider community has been been very energizing. You may have noticed that we have had just a slight decrease in activity on the front page of the blog in recent weeks as we [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
SFN has provided quality commentary on NC State Athletics for the better part of a decade. And along the way, it’s been a labor of love. There’s not a single person on the editorial board of SFN that accepts a salary. We all have day jobs and families and, when it comes down to it, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
Now that football season is right around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to update the community on a few things. Mobile access has returned to SFN. We had to cut it off around the time of release of the new SFN version a few months back. But it has been restored. Looks great [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 28, 2009
We are very excited to roll-out another component of our growing community — StateFansNation Forums Please bookmark the following URL: http://www.statefansnationforums.com/ These forums are designed to integrate with your current logon/profile information on the blog; so, you do not need to re-register. We are hoping that the forums become a source of ‘real-time’ sharing of news, notes and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Something is coming soon… but you have to wait till Friday…or maybe Thursday…or maybe Saturday. Speculate away…
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Updated Entry – July 30th We just ran across this link to the Top 100 College Football Blogs. Guess who is included on the list? Thanks so much! On a related note, take a moment to click on our Blogroll link at the top of the page and surf some of our links. We’ve [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Flashback: March 30th, 2006 from “Kennel Delivers Annual Communique To The Masses”: Dear Chancellor Oblinger, NC State is a Great University, and you are doing an excellent job building upon the strengths of previous Chancellors and taking us even further. Sincere thanks to you. [snip] Finally, I wish to state my personal support for whatever decisions you make. I [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
Good morning! Hope your weekend was nice. An awful lot is going on in Raleigh right now with the ****storm that brewing and creating heat on Chancellor statusquOblinger and the results of his (lack of) leadership from Holladay Hall. You can use Friday’s entry announcing the resignation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 9, 2009
As you can see, some pretty drastic changes have made their way to SFN. Firstly, we’d like to congratulate the winner of the banner/logo design contest, Dustin Rhodes for his contribution. As promised, a gift card has been sent to him on behalf of O3 Strategies.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 5, 2009
SFN would like to thank the great folks from the ACC Sports Journal for inviting us to partner with them on their weekly ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’. They posted the feature to their website last night and it can be read by clicking here. Over the last 12 months the blog has generated more than 3.5 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 2, 2009
We’ve been going through some changes recently as you all have no doubt noticed. One thing we will be rolling out very soon is an all-new version of the site with some new, exciting features. Raleigh-based web design and development company O3 Strategies is helping SFN out and handling the implementation of a new design and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 22, 2009
(1) Link – The original “Word about the Blog” (2) Link – Comments policy at SFN Thank you! Our comments section is designed to drive great conversations, share insightful comments/analysis/perspective, and serve as a place to archive information about the topic at hand. Every entity has a mission, a goal. SFN’s mission is to be a blog, not a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 22, 2009
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Continue reading...Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Adam Gold and Joe Ovies have been kind enough to invite myself and Maryland blogger Greg Abel, to have a short debate on our two teams, and their respective chances against each other and in this weekend’s ACC Tournament on 850 The Buzz at 7:10am tomorrow morning. Abel is a nice guy and writes a well-informed [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 28, 2008
UPDATE: We just upgraded the site to the current version of Wordpress. Someone asked me the other day just how popular this site is, and I responded that SFN sees over 3 million page views from over 1 million unique visitors per year. They scoffed. I laughed, because it’s just the facts: 1,379,634 visits from 11/27 2007 – [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 12, 2008
Back when this team of authors launched the original StateFans.com over eight years ago, one of the practices that we originated was what we called the “Morning Webrun” where one of us would scour the internet for NC State-related articles and post them in a story so that our readers had an article to start [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 7, 2008
Many thanks to Rocky Top Talk for their kind words: Continuity? Check. Their archives go back to December, 2004, which is the equivalent of being older than Adam in the college football blogosphere. Community? Uh-huh. Comments on front page posts regularly reach into the mutiple scores. Any blogger who’s been around for awhile knows how much time [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
Here is an early Christmas present for everyone. We started using a free webstats package in Oct., Google Analytics. We thought you would like the following report. Here is a sampling of the top 60 search terms that lead fans to SFN. All of this was pulled from our weblog, SFN didn’t make any of [...]
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