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He was afterwards emboldened to attempt some stewed chicken and milk toast, and finally finished with preserved peaches and cream.
An' milk toast an' dates'd reconcile me to 'most any change for the better.
My sister and I glanced at each other when we saw the pile of milk toast going, going, and then gone.
Make him some milk toast out of Mrs. Alexander's salt-rising—if it's too hard for his gums.
Wants me to make him milk toast, poached eggs, green tea, and currant jelly.
One day the children teased for milk toast for supper, and to my dismay I found the milk was 'short' that day.
It often appears at the hotels, but there it is milk toast, and is not so good.
As the girl nodded dumbly, Tony pushed forward his offering, a covered dish of milk toast.
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Representative pictures of primary porcine kidney epithelial cells (PKC) at different states of confluence. Pictures show PKC cultures of passage 0, 7 days after isolation with different confluence levels: A, post-confluent (>100% confluence); B, confluent (100% confluence); C, semi-confluent (~70% confluence); the used terms of confluence define the various density states of the cultures, i.e. non-confluent (described as <100% confluence), confluent (a state where the dish is completely covered with cells, described as 100% confluence) and post-confluent (a state, where the maximal cell number is reached, described as >100%). The latter does not mean that these cells grow in multilayers, but that they are able to close ranks more tightly before they stop proliferating due to contact inhibition.
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class route!KKilroy - Lead rpt - 22/Aug/15 with shauna
Joanne led p1, 3 ; I p2 (p3 4 in guidebook)- rope drag an issue prob would belay after traverse next timeGOS - AltLd rpt - 25/Jul/15 with Joanne McCandless
I think most of what I climbed was the right route; I definitiely finished in the right place, anyway. Found the second best nut placement I've ever seen.Alex McCalman - Lead O/S - 21/Jun/14 with Selina
Climbed as two pitches. 1st up to shared belay with Crooked Chimney; 2nd straight up to flake and top. Lead 2nd pitchaimees - AltLd O/S - 21/Jun/14 with Peter
Dan Kennedy - Lead O/S - 18/Apr/14 with Zoe Johnston
zojo91 - 2nd - 18/Apr/14 with Daniel Kennedy
KKilroy - Lead - 2014
ThomasO'Hagan - 2nd - Jul/13 with Amiee
Hidden - Lead O/S - 04/Jun/13
Mutant_Tractor - AltLd dnf - 03/Feb/13 with Cecilia Mariani
ma.cecilia - AltLd dnf - 03/Feb/13 with Myles Gray
dry day to begin- but wet and greasy weather creeped over conthebap - 2nd rpt - 08/Sep/12
Hidden - AltLd - 11/Aug/12
Hidden - Lead - 28/Jul/12
Edward Rusk - 26/Jul/12 with Nathan McComb, Matthew Ferguson
Hidden - Lead - 30/Jun/12
Hidden - Lead - 06/May/12
in-situ slings/pot abseil P2 and P3
great route but hands numb (2C and windchill)GOS - AltLd O/S - 29/Apr/12 with Michael Gibson
Hidden - 25/Apr/12
auld al - AltLd rpt - 29/Mar/12
I lead first pitch, toni lead second, I attempted third pitch but got nervous on the slab witb rucksack on, colleen finshed third pitch and toni lead final pitchCTotten88 - AltLd dog - 25/Mar/12 with colleen mann, toni bunting
Wet, windy and 2 deg C. But excellent fun RKernan - AltLd rpt - 21/Jan/12 with Niall Browne
Windy, wet and 2 degrees. Nice training for Scotish winter...nbrowne - Lead O/S - 21/Jan/12 with Ronan Kernan
led first pitchdavidmckeown - AltLd - Oct/11
climbed in 2 pitches, lead P2JohnBear - AltLd - 23/Jul/11 with Pete
Hidden - AltLd - 09/Jul/11
Awesome route. Climbed in three pitches, I led the first and third. The end is great fun.pagan-pie - AltLd O/S - 14/Jun/11 with tim91
tim91 - AltLd O/S - 14/Jun/11 with Daniel
Hidden - AltLd - 28/Apr/11
cfisher4 - AltLd rpt - 25/Apr/11 with Chris, Dave
awesome route, love the chimney climbing partner got her knee stuck in it.. some great climbing. (took only two pitches) Sin�ad - 2nd O/S - 09/Apr/11 with Heather Morning, Janette McDonald
Did it in 2 pitches. I lead the last one, ran out of gear near the top and got a kneebar stuck in the chimney waiting for someone to through me down a quick draw. Good times.IamJam - AltLd O/S - 09/Apr/11 with Heather Morningside, Sinead Oakes
DaveLeonard - Lead - 12/Oct/10 with Ivo Damkat
RKernan - 2nd - 15/Aug/10 with Tony McHale, Dan McElroy
Hidden - AltLd - 19/Jun/10
Climbed in two pitches. Classic.DaveLeonard - AltLd - 09/May/10 with Peter O'Kane
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Rintygold - AltLd O/S - Apr/09 with Alek Zholobenko, Owen Largey
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We did it in 3 pitches, 5 would be annoyingly disjointed.Andy Moles - Lead O/S - 08/Sep/08 with Anna
animaux18 - 2nd - 08/Sep/08
5 pitch wet and slimey on last pitchalanrsv - 2nd - 08/Aug/08 with Josh Hall
I lead first two pitches in one, Paul then lead pitch 3, i came up, then he lead pitched 4 and 5 in one.scottynel - AltLd O/S - 18/May/08 with Paul Stewart
Hidden - AltLd - 18/May/08
james rafferty - Lead O/S - 2008
Paul's intro at multi pitchkenneM - Lead - 2008 with Paul Elliott
cearbhalld - AltLd O/S - 08/Apr/07 with Tina Michels
Les Ross - AltLd - 26/Jan/07 with Jonathan McCloy, Anthony Garvey
Hidden - AltLd - 2006
Hidden - Lead - 2005
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Les Ross - Lead - 15/Jun/02 with Fred Maddellena
cragspud - Lead - 1995
John HW - Lead - 1988 with Dave Evans
nigehughes - Lead - Sep/85 with Mitch Mitcheson
john_ni - 21/Aug/85
john_ni - Lead - 02/Jun/85 with Paul Jack
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Scolari rules out Brazil-based players for friendly
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said Brazil-based players will not be considered for next month's international friendly against South Africa.
Scolari will name his squad for the March 5 clash at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday, reported Xinhua.
"After looking at some situations, we think that it will be better to choose only players who play outside of Brazil," Scolari said Monday.
"Those who play in Brazil are in the beginning of their season and aren't at peak fitness. For that reason we are going to wait a little to complete the list."
The match at Johannesburg's Soccer City will be the Selecao's last before Scolari picks his squad for the World Cup, to be played in June and July.
Scolari's decision means striker Fred (Fluminense), midfielder Jean (Fluminense) and defenders Dede (Cruzeiro) and Rever (Atletico Mineiro) will have to impress at club level to stake claims for a World Cup berth.
Barcelona striker Neymar is expected to be named for the friendly having recovered from an ankle injury.
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I have no interest in increased HP, or more torque. I am doing this simply as engine preservation.
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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Concert to benefit Center Street Artists Fund
After a crisis, support can come fast and furious. But relief efforts don't always have the staying power that we've seen for the Center Street Artists Fund, a fund put together by the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network to benefit the artists who lost homes, studios and art in a fire in Riverwest on July 17. »Read Full Blog Post
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Not to downplay the effort to help these people, but in our neighborhood 24 families lost their homes in a huge apartment fire at the Tanglewood Apartments on S 43rd street. And it did not even make the 10pm news. But when an artist in Riverwood looses studios and art in a fire, not only does JS online do a story but they also get a benefits concert?
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Not to make light of any situation but many of the artists also lived there, so about 10 or so people lost their homes, priceless art work etc.... there were also non-artists living there who lost everything and several employees of the shop who lost thousands of dollars worth of tools etc.....
As co-chair of the Riverwest Neighborhood Association I am very proud of how so many people in our neighborhood immediately got to work collecting donations, planning fundraisers etc.....
MARN, an arts organization, sent out media releases talking about the loss, it was huge. They also planned many collections etc....
We were very proactive and that is why we got the media attention. We together, arts organizations and community organizers and neighbors raised thousands of dollars for all those affected by this terrible fire.
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Yesterday, I wrote about my October Coffeeneuring rides. Today we get the
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Ride #5: Nov. 2
H Street Coffee House & Café, 1359 H St., N.E., Washington, D.C.
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This was my epic ride of the event. Following a stop at the Meet Market craft fair, I had decided I was going to head across the river to Anacostia's sole coffeehouse, Big Chair Coffee. To get there, I rode down to the Tidal Basin,
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The view of the east side of the Anacostia
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Brendan Bowers, from Stepien Rules and SLAM Magazine, joined the Ken Carman Show Thursday night on 92.3 The Fan. Bowers talked about what Indiana coach Frank Vogel was doing late in the game, whether LeBron James' shot was clutch and who the Cavs should take with the first overall pick. Bowers also gave NBA player comparisons for the Top 3 players in this year's draft.


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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not a generally accepted option for infants or toddlers with acute coronary syndrome. However, a new report published in the August issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, a journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), found coronary stent implantation to be a feasible and safe palliative option for children fifteen months and younger.
Studies have shown that in adults with reduced blood flow to the heartknown as acute coronary syndrome (ACS)stent implantation significantly reduces mortality. While ACS is less common in children there are congenital and acquired heart disease that may compromise coronary circulation in the pediatric population. Due to increased risk of coronary interventions and difficulty of cardiac catheterization techniques in pediatric patients, PCI is not a recommended treatment strategy in this age group.
A research team led by Dr. Andrs Bratincsk from Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, California, conducted a retrospective review of seven children who had PCI between June 2006 and June 2010. Of those included in the study all were under 18 years of age and four were 15 months or younger. PCI techniques included balloon coronary angioplasty and coronary stent implantation. Researchers analyzed patient data that included underlying diagnosis, comorbidites, catheterization technique, and outcomes.
In all seven cases, successful stent placement in the proximal portion of the left or right coronary arteries with excellent revascularization was achieved. The average diameter of the heart arteries was 0.65 mm prior to the intervention. Balloon angioplasty did not completely resolve the stenosis and bare metal stents were then implanted to a mean internal diameter of 2.5 mm. The team determined that the average intervention-free period was 434 days after stent implantation. Restenosis and thrombosis did not oc
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Barnes , Noble's sales plummeted from their results a year ago. / Jae C. Hong, AP
Shares of Barnes & Noble fell 12% Friday to finish at $14.43 after the bookseller said it was cooperating in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting.
The struggling retailer has been trying to make a turnaround in the face of tough competition and book readers who are increasingly turning to digital media for content.
The SEC told the bookseller Oct. 16 that it was investigating the company's restatement of earnings announced in July as well as an employee allegation that it improperly allocated some information-technology expenses between its Nook and retail segments. The news came in its quarterly report filed after the market closed Thursday.
Barnes & Noble began reporting its Nook business sales separately from its retail business in late 2012 as it evaluated ways to become more profitable. The company said in a filing on July 29 that it had restated results from the fiscal years ending in April 2011 and 2012 due to material errors in the financial reports for those periods. It also said at the time that it overstated some accruals for the periods before April 27, 2013.
Under Michael Huseby, who became president of the company and CEO of Barnes & Noble's retail group in July, the company has been evaluating its strategy and trying to turn around results.
In its most recent fiscal second quarter, the company returned to a profit as cost cuts offset an 8 percent revenue decline.
Shares fell about $1.50, or 9%, to around $14.90 in afternoon trading, while the general market rose on a strong November jobs report. The stock had been up about 9% since the beginning of the year.
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BackgroundThe fourth title in LucasArts' adventure series featuring artwork, puzzles, with a humerous tone to the gameplay. Guybrush and all his swashbuckling friends have made the jump to 3D. When Guybrush's newlywed wife (and Melee Island mayor) Elaine is ousted from her job as mayor it's up to him to find out why!
- Fourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures.
- Guybrush and his swashbuckling friends now appear in scurvy-inducing 3D!
- Dozens of lusciously rendered backgrounds!
- Hundreds of puzzles to challenge novice and veteran pirates... er, adventurers
An original, cinematic story full of drama, sociopathic parrots and a villain with a sinister agenda!
- New jokes! New puns! New insults! And more monkeys than the three previous Monkey games combined!
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BISE Lahore Board Matric Result 2013
The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education is an autonomous body which is responsible to conduct the examination of matriculation and intermediate in the jurisdiction of the board.
After the independence the organizing body for the matricand intermediate examination was Punjab University but then it was decided that the load from university should be shed and a new board should be made for SSCand HSSC examination. It was made back in 1954 and it comes under the government of the Punjab. Since then the board is working to fulfill the educational desires of the residents of its jurisdiction.
The areas which were covered by the Lahore board at the time of its formation were Punjab, Baluchistan, Azad Kashmir and northern areas but now the jurisdiction has been reduced to some districts only due to the formation of many new boards. The present day jurisdiction of the board is Okara district, Kasur district, Nankana Sahib District and Sheikhupura District.
The board is working under the mission of providing the standard education to the jurisdiction's students. The board is striving and working hard to maintain a fair and transparent system of education in the region.
Every year the board affiliates the schools and colleges in the jurisdiction with the board which then registers the students from these schools and colleges affiliated with them. The board also offers registration for the private students as well against some fee allocated by the board. Then scheduling process starts in which date sheet is formed, roll number slips are issued and then centers for examination for each of the student is formalized. Then the examination is conducted and after two to three months the result is then declared.
The result for the class 10th will be released in the month of July or August according to the previous schedules of the board. BISE Lahore has not reported anything about the exact date of the result2013 declaration but as soon as we get something official, we will be the one to let it know. The students are suggested to keep visiting the official website of the board as all the latest updates will come your way there.
The board provides certification for Science, Arts (10thclass) and Pre Engineering, Pre Medical, Commerce, General Science, Arts and computer sciences (Intermediate). Other than these the board also offers some regional language courses as well.
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SAN DIEGO — Dexter Fowler may want to start making plans for the All-Star Game at the New York Mets' Citi Field on July 14. The center fielder blasted two more home runs Friday night, including a go-ahead shot in the ninth to rally the Rockies to a 7-5 victory over the Padres at Petco Park. Fowler's second homer came off closer Huston Street, a former Rockie. Josh Rutledge added a bonus homer as the Padres fans booed Street, a 2012 all-star.
"I just go out and try to put a good swing on it and let it do what it do," Fowler said.
Turning point. The Rockies won the game in the ninth, but they needed a two-run rally in the eighth to set the stage. One of the key hits was an RBI double by Todd Helton. He entered the game with two hits in 21 at-bats, but he said he wasn't concerned.
"In spring, I was trying not to do too much and it was working," he said before Friday's game. "Then the season started and I messed my swing up. I'm still trying to find that happy medium. So I feel fine. My swing is fine. I feel good about where I'm at."
He proved it, going 3-for-4.
"I have been working with Pat (Burgess, the bullpen catcher) the last few days and watching a lot of film the last few days when I haven't been playing," Helton said after the victory. "I don't just sit and watch the games. I've been working and I think I found something tangible that I could sink my teeth into and work on. I felt confident out there today. That's big for me."
On the mound. Jon Garland, a machine in his first start in a Rockies uniform, wasn't as sharp Friday. But the right-hander was good enough to set the table for a Rockies win. He served up a two-run homer to Yonder Alonso in the first but settled in to pitch six innings, allowing three runs on five hits.
Manager Walt Weiss said Garland's job is to give the Rockies a chance to win. Garland agreed.
"Essentially, that's what it is," said Garland, who's ERA sits at 3.75. "Especially with this lineup. Sure, there are going to be some bumps and bruises along the way, but if they continue to do what they are doing, they are going to put us in some very good positions."
Rafael Betancourt set the Padres down in order in the ninth for his fourth save.
Wilton Lopez, however, continues to struggle. He was acquired from Houston to bolster the back of the Rockies' bullpen. But he's been a huge disappointment in the early going and that was compounded Friday. He gave up three straight hits in the seventh inning, the killer blow an RBI double by Nick Hundley. Lopez has a 12.46 ERA this year.
"With Lopez, I don't think he's been hit as hard as his numbers say," Weiss said. "There are a lot of groundballs that have gotten through and weird groundballs — that type of thing. He's going to be big for us. We picked him up to pitch late in games for us. ... I still have a lot of confidence in him. I think he's going to be a real key piece for us."
At the plate. Fowler's play in center field, his speed and his .300 average made him a budding star last season. But Fowler has power that could land him in the Mid-Summer Classic. Fowler's solo smash to center leading off the fifth gave the Rockies a 3-2 lead. He already has a team-leading six home runs after hitting a career-high 13 in 2012.
Weiss admitted that Fowler has surprised him.
"I can't say I knew Dexter had this type of power," Weiss said. "I knew he had power, but he's really been locked in. He's really, really swinging well. When he barrels it up, it goes a long way. When you watch him take batting practice, he hits them as far as the big boys."
Even though the fences at Petco Park have been moved in this season, Fowler didn't count his first homer until he saw it clear the fence.
"The first one I hit, I thought, 'Oh, that's way back,' and it barely went out," Fowler said. "So the second one, I thought, "Oh, I got that one.' But at this park, you never know."
What it means. A 5-1 start had the Mile High City buzzing about the Rockies, but three straight losses in San Francisco brought them back to earth. Rallying to win, even against the 2-8 Padres, was a much-needed elixir.
"That's a real good win for us, to battle back like that after given up the lead," Weiss said. "We had some big hits and some big at-bats. It's a good way to start this series, that's for sure."


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The present invention generally relates to a method and system for improving marketing campaigns. More particularly, the method and system of the present invention relates to measuring and using the Customer Network Value.
With the advent of networked electronic media (Internet, Web, mobile phones) "word-of-mouth"—the spontaneous passing of messages between individuals—has reached a new dimension, both quantitatively, as it is much easier to pass information along, and qualitatively since the integrity of such information is better preserved.
This opportunity has not gone unnoticed to the marketing profession which is making extensive usage of it through techniques generically labeled as "viral marketing". An example of those are the buttons to send pages to friends almost universally present in web sites nowadays. Similarly, e-mail campaigns inviting people to forward the message to friends or product or service where its mere acceptance involves notifying others (such as the free Hotmail promotion) are widespread. Thus, the topic has reached the level of subject matter at business schools. For example, see the article entitled "The Buzz on Buzz," published in the Harvard Business Review, November-December, 2000.
The article describes how word of mouth has become a key component of many marketing campaigns and gives categorized examples of its usage by various companies although it does not provide any analytical method for implementing or measuring it in a systematic way.
Word of mouth effectiveness is rooted on the size and structure of the participating individuals' social network. Social Network Analysis and information propagation dynamics on complex networks of various topologies (Random, Small World, Scale Free) have recently been the subject of significant amount of research and theoretical analysis, both in the Industry and Academia. See the article "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network," Cornell University, 2003. This research paper develops mathematical models to predict the extent to which "word-of-mouth" effects will take hold when the most "influential" individuals in the network are initially targeted but does not provide any method to quantitatively determine who those individuals are or to measure their specific degree of influence.
Also, the trend is becoming an industry unto itself and has given rise to a slew of web-based companies trying to capitalize on internet-assisted social network dynamics for a variety of business models: Support to sales teams by providing access to key customer contacts through "power networking", job searching, or the expansion of personal relationships for dating and friendship. For example, the LinkedIn web site allows people to extend their personal relationships network by sending messages to one another but does not allow any form of one-to-many marketing application of the tool.
However, for all the requests to forward marketing messages found today in web sites and marketing campaigns, solutions for direct and systematic collection, quantification and use of individuals' word-of-mouth behavior data to improve marketing campaigns targeting and efficiency, are not available. For example, the research paper, "Mining the Network Value of Customers," University of Washington, 2002, proposes an indirect method based on the data mining of collaborative filtering databases. Since data mining techniques consist in computing exact values on a sample population and approaching values for another population on the basis of the results on the sample population. However in this document there is no suggestion of how to compute customer Network Value based on a direct, efficient and practical observation of the sample population behavior. However, collaborative filtering does not involve direct interaction between individuals and the method detects just generic influences between customers but not the direct ones characterizing one-to-one word of mouth.
Thus, no solution is provided in the background art to detect, collect or compute Customer Network Value arising from direct observation of word-of-mouth interactions between individuals (also known as "network behavior") for any population of customers, large or small. There is a need for an efficient method and system to determine and apply the Customer Network Value to mass marketing communication campaigns.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for collecting information on direct interactions between individuals so as to compute and use their customer Network Value for mass marketing communication in an efficient and systematic way.
It is another object of the invention to provide a method ands system allowing the expansion of this method to customer populations for which it is not possible to collect all the information necessary for the computation of the customer Network Value.
These objects are achieved, in one embodiment by a method for evaluating a customer network value of a set of customers for a given marketing campaign, the method comprising the steps of, storing for each customer static information, collecting for each customer, historical and time cumulative network behavior data, building a customer network map from network behavior data said map describing network relation between nodes, each node representing one customer, computing the social network parameters for the nodes of the network map, selecting the most relevant social network parameters according to the objectives of the given marketing campaign, and computing for each customer a Customer Network Value Index (NVI) by combining the most relevant social network parameters and static information.
The advantages of the present invention, method and system are the following:
The method allows the graphical representation and visualization of customers' social interactions for a more in-depth, intuitive and thorough analysis
The term "Customer Network Value" as used herein is defined as the quantified monetary value of a customer's influence on the market on behalf of a particular product or brand by virtue of the positive messages disseminated through her relationship network. Since any customer influence on the market can be interpreted as generating savings of the vendor's own marketing efforts, it is generally the cost of such marketing efforts that is assigned as the particular Network Value. In general, a customer's impact on the market can be achieved by a multiplicity of means: direct recommendation of the product to other people, indirect testimonial through its public use, providing ratings of the product in the media.
There's no doubt that a person's choice of a product is usually heavily influenced by her family, friends, business associates, acquaintances or other users. Leveraging such word-of-mouth networks for marketing can be more cost-effective than the conventional marketing method because it relies on the customers themselves to provide most of the promotional effort. Besides, as customer's recommending a product are seen as independent trusted sources, their credibility is much higher than that of the seller's own marketing efforts. Frequently, those users' testimonials are actively sought out by potential customers as input to make a purchase decision or as reassurance after a recent acquisition.
Due to the difficulty of detecting people's behavior influencing the marketplace in regards to a particular product or service, the concept of "Customer Network Value" has never been included systematically on any marketing plans. Thus, companies have created mechanisms to entice their customers to recommend their products to others in the hopes that whatever their effectiveness, it would be something on top of everything else. So, beyond this casual approach, it has not been possible to detect, track, evaluate or otherwise use "Customer Network Value" in any significant way.
Nevertheless, the business and marketing literature has recognized network effects (also known in Economics research as network externalities) to be of critical importance to success in the marketplace, specially for those industries involved with information goods and services (software, telecommunications, media) or those where brand name recognition is a key factor in their marketing approach (consumer goods). Ignoring network effects when deciding which customers to market to can lead to severely sub optimal decisions. In fact, in many cases it can only be done at the manufacturer's peril. The cases of technically inferior products prevailing in the marketplace because they managed to better leverage the network of users are business school case studies today (for example, Windows prevailing over OS/2 in the PC operating systems market or VHS over BETA in VCR formats).
The advent of electronic communications media (notably, but not exclusively, the Internet) has led to the availability of large amounts of data from which the necessary network behavior can be detected thus enabling a proactive use in Marketing of the Customer Network Value. The abundance of computer power to capture and store each user's behavior while using the Internet (e-mail, chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards, newsgroups, web pages, RSS channels, online subscriptions, etc.) makes it possible to collect information on social relationships and map individuals' network behavior.
Although usage of any electronic media or application lends itself nicely to determine the Customer Network Value (mobile phones, SMS messages, e-Mail, search engines, web pages browsing, e-commerce) we assume for this example a particular scenario consisting of customers that recommend products to others through e-mail in combination with special web forms. To encourage the pass-along behavior and increase the process spread, some form of reward to participants can be included.
Even if the concept of CNV (Customer Network Value) and of the preferred embodiment is generally discussed in connection with the Information Technology industry, however, it is not intended to limit this application to such industry. The method and system of the preferred embodiment will find application in any sector or market segment where the customers' network behavior can be detected and collected through electronic means.
The measure of customer value in traditional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) practice, the Customer Lifetime Value (also known as Customer Intrinsic Value) is defined as the profit resulting from any particular customer business with the company over her life as a customer after deduction of related costs, and especially those resulting from marketing to her. Thus, customers are only profitable for the company if the benefit of their purchases exceeds the cost of marketing to them over the considered period. However, this approach does not account for the profit (in the form of a reduction of marketing expenses) that results for the company when its customers promote the product through their relationship network. Thus, someone may be worth being marketed to, even if she is not actually buying anything, if the value of her recommendations to others outweighs the marketing cost, thereby delivering a positive Customer Network Value.
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The first step towards measuring a customer's Network Value is to detect and collect the network behavior. This implies learning who are her relationships and creating a Social Network Map of them, identifying those that are more frequently being communicated with, what is the relevance of those contacts to the business and, recursively, discovering the same information about each and every contact down the treelike structures that represent the message path.
The actual mechanism for network behavior detection and capture will vary with the media being used (mobile phone, SMS message, bulletin board submission, instant messages, forum participation, blogs, web recommendation, etc.) but will generally include the following components: 1) A company message to be passed along, 2) A reward or incentive for doing so, 3) A method to identify both sender and recipients, 4) A system to establish a unique link between the two, and 5) A storage system and process to save all the information collected.
It is important to note as well that message pass along needs not be a one-to-one affair. It can also be one-to-many as long as the identities of the message recipients can be determined and their relationship with the sender established. As an example, an individual's posting to a blog whose members are known, automatically defines implicit instances of multiple message transmission from the blog owner to each and every one of the blog subscribers. Finally, although knowledge of the message recipients' identities allows for better marketing segmentation, network behavior from a known individual towards anonymous recipients is also valuable and can be used in the context of the method of the preferred embodiment.
The capturing of message pass-along behavior is important because it allows, for the first time, the creation of a direct, quantitative metrics of any individual's Network Value which depends not only on the number or frequency of messages she passes to others but also of her position in the network. Such position, that changes with time, can be defined and measured through the following two scores: Network Value Extent (NVE) and Network Value Strength (NVS).
First, an individual's Network Value Extent is measured by the total number of different people who can be reached by continuous paths through the known social network starting at that particular individual. Thus, a message initially sent by the individual at the top of the chain, if continuously pushed forward by successive recipients would eventually reach everyone on that individual's Social Network. Thus, in Social Network science terminology, any individual's Network Value Extent would coincide with the size of her fully connected graph.
However, not all individuals in the network are alike, nor all instances of message propagation are equally valuable for the company spreading the message. Some people are company CEOs or C-level execs, while others are clerical officers or secretaries with less purchasing or decision power. Similarly, some belong in industries or business segments that are particularly attractive to the company sending the message whereas others pertain to non-profit, government or other organizations which may be of different priority as targets. These differences lead to variations in the marketing value of the forwarded messages and must be taken into consideration when calculating the customer Network Value. Such is the purpose of the second score to be measured, the individual's Network Value Strength.
The network map allows calculating many different parameters related to each individual's social network structure. A suitable algorithm executed on those parameters which includes, without limitation, total node degree, first and second neighbors degree, maximum undirected path length and clustering factor, leads to the determination of each individuals Network Value Extent score.
Now, the network behavior information that surfaces from the analysis of each person's network behavior map, is merged with firmographics and personal data available in the company's customer databases. This combination allows calculating a whole set of new and independent parameters that are predicated of the binary relationship between individuals in adjacent nodes. Again, as before, a suitable algorithm executed on the new set of parameters which include, without limitation, nodes out degree, network centrality, node betweeness, arc value, link diversity or node rank differential, lead to the determination of each individual's Network Value Strength score.
Yet another algorithmic combination of each individual's Network Value Extent and Strength scores and that of those nodes downstream in her network map factored in recursively (with the appropriate attenuation factor based on network distance), delivers a score for her Network Value which constitutes the person's Customer Network Value Index (NVI).
However it is inconceivable that a complete Social Network Map can be unveiled for every customer because of the limits in time and resources that can be devoted to the effort in real-world situations. Besides, even if that was possible, it might prove to be an exercise in futility since peoples' network behavior evolves over time and the supposedly final map would not entirely reflect reality when completed. Thus, it becomes necessary to extrapolate the explicitly calculated Customer Network Value Indexes from a subset of individuals to the entire customer set in order to obtain probabilistic Customer Network Value Indexes.
Data mining techniques can help compute the probabilistic Customer Network Value Index. Within the discipline of data mining, a set of tools addresses the so called regression and segmentation problems. Regression tools develop predictive models from historical data. Such models predict the value of a variable (the response variable) based on the value provided for another set of variables. A good model delivers predictions close to the actual values of the response not only for the data used in building the model, but also for other data from the same set that was not used to build the model. Thus, good models accurately predict the response variable value for any input. Modern regression tools select the relevant predictors for inclusion in the model. They can also unveil complex relationships between predictors and responses and embed them into a model that discovers accurate, and previously not available, information.
It is this possibility of discovering new information which makes data mining useful to the task of assigning a probabilistic Customer Network Value Index to individuals whose network behavior has not been explicitly detected. Data mining discovery mode will use in this context predictors that describe the customer (such as demographic, firmographic and psycographic characteristics) and the customer's recorded behavior in terms of buying records, historical product preferences, participation in company and industry events or response to previous marketing campaigns. First step is for the Data Mining application to profile, on all those predictors, the individuals whose network behavior, and hence their Network Value Index, are known. This leads to the identification of profiles that may anticipate, or predict, a certain network behavior for the corresponding individuals. Finally, it is fairly straightforward to assign the same Network Value Index, within a probability range, to individuals without an identified network behavior but whose known business profiles indicate they may behave, in a similar way.
At step 402, the data gathered in the previous step is properly formatted and merged with the demographic, firmographic, psycographic and business information available on those individuals in the company's, or in third parties, databases. Then, at step 403, the body of data resulting from the previous phase is organized so as to classify the customer set into different segments according to standardized customer profiles.
In step 404, the pass-along behavior network map for each customer in the subset is created. Specialized Social Network Analysis software (one that automatically applies Network Analysis techniques to social networks) is then used to calculate the relevant parameters of the customers' detected relationships network map. These types of programs are known in the art. Several of them can be used at this step. The input read by the program is the network map, the output provides for each node of the map a set of parameters. Those may include, among others and without limitation, metrics such as:
Among all the parameters provided by the usual Social Network Analysis software, the most relevant are automatically selected in the method of the preferred embodiment, which is oriented to a fixed marketing campaign strategy. In a more sophisticated embodiment the operator can choose among different types of marketing campaigns.
In the preferred embodiment the resulting network parameters of each and every node are combined through the use of a suitable algorithm to produce a score for the Network Value Extent or Strength Indexes. This algorithm involves, without limitation, arithmetic or algebraic operations such as summation, subtraction, multiplication, division or powers. The mathematical formula of such algorithm is not unique as it depends on the specific network or customer type of interest in each case.
As an example of the simplest embodiment, the Network Value Extent score calculation algorithm for a node could be a straight multiplication of some, or all, of the network parameters measured for such node:
NVE (node)=(Node Degree)�(Node Centrality)�(Max. Path length)�(Clustering coefficient)
In other embodiments, Boolean variables (those taking discrete values such as 1 if a condition is met, 0 if it is not), lookup tables or statistical analysis methods are used to combine network behavior data with customer firmographics and business data. As a result, both the NVS and NVE scores are calculated and, put together, lead to a dimension 2 vector, the so called Customer Network Value Vector. Further, in step 405, Customer Network Value Vectors of all individuals in each and every fully connected graph are recursively combined with one another (through vector multiplication with a reduction factor to account for the decaying impact of distant nodes) to determine the Customer Network Value Index of each individual in the graph.
In step 406, data mining techniques are used to determine probabilistic Customer Network Value Indexes for all customers in the customer set, based on those calculated in the previous step for the subset of customers with already measured indexes and on the predictive value of their common profiles, as discovered by the data mining tool. It is in this step as well that the subset of customers with measured indexes is divided in two (one as data source, the other as benchmark) to run the data mining tools against them so as to "train" the predictive algorithm for more accurate results. This training step must take place every time there is a substantial update on the measured customer subset.
Finally, it is in step 407 that the resulting customer value indexes for all customers (both measured and probabilistic) are loaded on the company's marketing databases and subsequently used as targeting criteria for marketing campaigns. This index, by its construction and because of the new message pass-along information built into it, is essentially independent from any other criteria and becomes the selection factor for marketing campaigns seeking to optimize overall customer value by including their, up until now, hidden value provided by the customers' word-of-mouth marketing effect.
Although the present invention has been described in connection to a specific preferred embodiment, various changes and alternatives may be proposed by anyone familiar with the disciplines involved. Nevertheless, any such changes and alternatives are supposed to be encompassed within the scope of the appended claims as long as their final purpose remains to measure and assign Network Value Indexes to individuals of a set based on their detected message pass-along activity.
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