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Please Support SFN

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Just wanted to pass along a quick plea to the community on a couple of basic items. First, THANK YOU so much for choosing to spend your time and energy here at SFN. We hope that you have enjoyed many of the upgrades we made in 2009 and we will continue to strive to improve in [...]

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SFN in 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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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 [...]

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Really Rolling Along…heading towards a ‘bowl elimination game’

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Really Rolling Along…heading towards a ‘bowl elimination game’

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 [...]

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Support SFN – Buy an Ad!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Support SFN – Buy an Ad!

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, [...]

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Site News

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Site News

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 [...]

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Introducing StateFansNation Community Forums

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Introducing StateFansNation Community Forums

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 [...]

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Coming soon…

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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Coming soon…

Something is coming soon… but you have to wait till Friday…or maybe Thursday…or maybe Saturday. Speculate away…

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[Updated] SFN makes the New York Times & list of Top 100 FBall Blogs

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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[Updated] SFN makes the New York Times & list of Top 100 FBall Blogs

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 [...]

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New Feature: Polling

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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As some of you might have noticed, we have added a polling feature to the sidebar. You can expect the poll to be updated from time-to-time to gauge our audience’s opinion on certain topics. I can also see that we have some Tarheel visitors here that are hoping that we win fewer than 5 games. [...]

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Monday Morning Bytes

Monday, May 18, 2009

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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 [...]

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The New & Improved [Updated 11:00]

Saturday, May 9, 2009

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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.

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Design SFN’s Next Logo

Saturday, May 2, 2009

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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 [...]

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Site Note: We Just Passed 100,000 Comments This Week (Updated)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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Sometime over the weekend, Statefans Nation recorded its 100,000th comment from you, our readers.  I’m not sure which one of you clicked the odometer over to six digits, but it speaks well for all of you folks that this site has such a lively community. Back in November we ran an entry focused some of our [...]

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Community Input Question

Monday, January 12, 2009

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Just wanted to ask for a little feedback from you – As a baseline to use as a specific example — Take a quick look at the entry to the ACCASJ that we linked in this entry. Now – imagine that instead of conducting that ‘conversation’ over email that the ACCASJ conducted that conversation verbally and linked [...]

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Statefans Nation Stats for 2008

Friday, November 28, 2008

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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 – [...]

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Site News: Chat Room Added — Please Help Test It

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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I’ve added a chat-room widget to the site, something that was mentioned in the site improvement post I made a couple of days ago. StateFans Nation Chat You’ll also notice that just under the logo at the top of the page is a link to the chat room. If you’d do me the kindness of checking it [...]

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Site News: Two Additions

Friday, December 14, 2007

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Google Ads Will Be Here Coming Soon Statefans Nation will start showing advertisements on many of the pages here — but nothing obnxious. Many blog sites have Google ads, and in our view, they are relatively unobtrusive and won’t detract at all from the mission of the site. Why? Basically, we are taking this step in order to [...]

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SFN Moves To A New Server…

Sunday, December 9, 2007

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UPDATE 3 (Monday, 11:35am) Answers To The Comments Below The Article Links: I agree about the light blue links and will fix that.  I don’t care for it either, but I want to hear from the guys that actually own the site what their preference of colors is.  Me, I would prefer the actual red color of [...]

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SFN Garners #2

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

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StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the web. Virtually every [...]

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