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Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I've looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I'm going to try to figure out how this all weights out.
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I continue with the metrics series. On Monday, I looked at who needed metrics and yesterday, I dug into hard metrics, the kind that can easily be measured. Today, I'm going to go through what I consider soft metrics, a group of metrics that is harder to measure objectively.
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Yesterday, I looked at which parts of a company can use metrics. Today, I start delving into the types of metrics those different groups can use. For the purpose of this on-going discussion, I've divided metrics into two categories: Hard Metrics and Soft Metrics. The main difference betwen the two is that hard metrics can easily be measured while soft metrics are more amorphous. One could also say that hard metrics are more traditional, by nature, than soft metrics. Let's go into more details...
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Readers of this site have noticed a recent focus on trying to get some rough numbers and some types of metrics around the blogopshere. Those are part of my trying to figure out whether Web 2.0 is a bubble or whether it is really different from web 1.0. To that extent, I've been working on a series of entries relating to metrics in the blogosphere and web 2.0 world. I'm sure that many of the statements I will be making over the course of the next week will be controversial but I expect to stir up discussion of what Web 2.0 means in terms of real numbers.
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