More Franchise Blogging About Franchise Blogging

Let’s keep on franchise blogging about franchise blogging at least one more time…

Wikid Franchise operates along the lines of Wikipedia, billing itself as an information sharing project for folks interested in franchise information. It consists only of previously published information about a franchise, wisely limiting their liability and preventing the site from becoming a site for whining about franchise (which is the province, apparently, of www.unhappyfranchisee.com

Free Accounts – Franchise Info
Members can create a free account and learn from the posted franchise articles and begin to post new information.

Is it the “largest repository of vetted information” on franchise ever compiled? Maybe – it’s got a very nice tag cloud for quick access to articles about franchises such as KrispyKreme, Subway, Dairy Queen, lots in the area of franchise.

Franchise Info, not Advertising
It’s not the place to advertise or try to gain new customers for your franchise, however; it’s aiming at becoming a library of information, with all parties interested in franchise scurrying around available media sources and posting valuable articles.

Tho possibly not every article is so valuable – one entitled “Judge fines ruffian for hurling muffin,” a news story about an unfortunate event at a Tim Horton donut franchise – may not provide valuable insights about the purchase or running of such a franchise establishment. It works well as data to shore up SouthPark’s opinion of Canada, however.

Franchise Blogging About Franchise Blogging

Today we’re franchise blogging about franchise blogging. Lots of blogging about franchises, and we’re getting into the fray.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article (by Richard Gibson) all about franchise blogs, and the franchise blog community promptly blogged about the article on franchise blogs.

• To wit:
  Franchise-Chat (http://www.franchise-chat.com/). This blog has an international flavor, if you’re interested in going global.
• The Franchise Pundit (franchisepundit.com). Advice and news from a franchise attorney.
• Unhappy Franchisee (http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/). Provides a forum for discussion of negative aspects of a franchise.
• WikidFranchise.org. WikidFranchise.org Like the well-known Wikipedia, a place for anyone to add relevant information.

…And then franchise blogs blogged about the franchise blog article…

Bizzia.com blogged about the WSJ article and managed to eclipse the actual article in Google prominence.Notable sites that escaped mention include FranchisePick.Com, FranBest.com, TopNewFranchises.com, Michael Webster’s The BizOpp News, and Joel Libava’s The Franchise King blog. While not a blog, Richard Solomon’s Franchise Remedies also includes a wealth of information and insights.

All this makes me believe that the term blogosphere is literal, not figurative – the image of a giant wired structure, perhaps plexiglass, surrounding the literal globe, with electronic info pinging out and back, so that every bit of information known by any human at any time about the world of franchise is instantly known by every other human.

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