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‘ DFWMostPowerful.com’
is a fun new window into the rich and famous of the Dallas/Fort
Worth area of North Texas!Of course, former President George W. Bush is
#1. But from
there it's up for grabs!
DFWMostPowerful.com has spent almost two years and thousands of
hours researching the key factors that make a person powerful:
Wealth: net worth, economic power, residential real estate
Business or Position Power: Elected Officials are rated by position.
An example would be: a Senator is considered more powerful than a
congressman, and a U.S. Senator more than a state senator.
Celebrity Power: Who is known locally or nationally; by everyone or
just by other Powerful people
Charitable Contributions and Involvement Power: Money plus
additional points for serving on Boards or as Trustees
Political Power: through contributions to local, state, and national
elections. We then weight these scores for each person and refine the list to
the ones you see on the site. It is the opinion of one group, but
based on a significant amount of research and data, formulated to
present a representative cross-section of power in the Dallas/Fort
Worth metroplex.
Our
Methodology
As
an example, here is a somewhat general break-down of our approach to
ranking
on our DFW Most Powerful list:
Acquire names from...
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- PR releases and announcements,
- Charity and non profit boards of supporters
- Corporate boards and officers
- Society columns
- Business journals
- Area blogs
- County records
- Radio & Television Interviews or Pieces
- And any other place names might be mentioned
Also include...
- Major area sports celebrities current and retired
- Major media personalities, current and retired
- All major political office holders
- Other notables
Research each household for...
- Company, job, position, e-mail, and salary if published
- Spouse, job, position, e-mail, and salary if published
- Address, City, County, home value
- Other residential holdings
- Internet research for both spouses
- E-mail addresses
- Business associations
- Non profits supported and/or board membership
- Major donations ($5,000 or more)
- Historical or newsworthy facts and figures
- DFW relatives and well known associates
- Political contributions to federal candidates
- Political contributions to state candidates
- Political affiliations (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian)
Add any new
lists or names acquired into database and repeat
- Score each household on Power Components:
- Political
- Charity: contributions= X/$10K, Board memberships=2X
- Celebrity
- Professional
- Develop Proprietary Scale for Corporate and Political positions
- Senator=, Congressman=, Mayor=, Commissioner=
- Factor for size of city, county
- CEO=, CFO=, EVP=, Law Partner=
- Develop Proprietary ‘DWF Most Powerful’ Formula for balancing 4
Power Components
- Compute Political, Charity, Celebrity, and Professional ‘scores’
- Compute “Total Power” score of 4 Power Components
- Compute “Most Powerful” List
In Development
- 5th Power Component: Society/Social
to measure level of Social
Participation
- Divide current Charity Component into Charity & Society
- Rank major society events (Crystal Charity, Art Ball, Cattle
Barons, etc.) assign sliding value based on longevity, total $$$
raised
- Score each household on Society
- Adjust Proprietary Formula for 5th Component
- Recompute ‘Most Powerful’ and and all subsidiary Lists
NOTE:
'Social' is actually a sub-set
of the current Charity Component already in our original algorithm. But
it measures who leads and contributes to the Top 20 non profits and social
events
(see our
Most Powerful Events list).
Migrate DWF Database up to Web, secure
Develop algorithms to generate All Lists directly from master
database
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Did we miss someone?
Contact us and tell us who. We may have them,
but farther down our list! Someone too high or too low? Tells us why, and we might revise our
score. We can only work with the public information available to us.
You send us better information and we verify it and the scores could
change.Who Are We? People, who have grown up in the DFW area, know the area, its rich
history, its business climate, and political structure. Come back. We will be adding to our list often and then introducing
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- Most Expensive Homes
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- Most Powerful Entrepreneurs
- Most Powerful Attorneys
- Most Powerful Cosmetic Surgeons
and more! Stay
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