Client Need
The brain-child of ESPN’s original founder, Bill Rasmussen, CollegeFanz is a Web 2.0 social networking site targeting the ultimate college sports fan on the internet.
To launch their business, College Fanz needed to create this site from the ground up to establish a robust online community where fans would be able to contribute content and share their love of the game. When College Fanz approached us they had six weeks left to the get site up and running.
To launch their business, College Fanz needed to create this site from the ground up to establish a robust online community where fans would be able to contribute content and share their love of the game. When College Fanz approached us they had six weeks left to the get site up and running.
What OpenCrowd Did
- We worked with the founding business partners to provide a solution that brought the power of social networking technologies to college sports fans on the web.
- Implemented a social networking community by heavily customizing the Jive platform to enable fans to contribute content such as videos, photos, ratings, blogs, and participate in discussions and community surveys to keep abreast of the activity via RSS feeds.
- Customizing open source Web 2.0 tools provided College Fanz an accelerated solution to rapidly achieve mature community functionality on their own unique platform.
- Integrated pre-existing web communities like YouTube and Flickr to support photo and multi-media management allowed College Fanz to launch with rich content and functionality. Using features like Facebook friends integration allowed for viral community expansion.
Outcome
- College Fanz was able to launch their business on time, leveraging our knowledge pre-existing resources and our ability to quickly customize them as needed.
- Fanz have been able to quickly connect, contribute, and collaborate in a vibrant and rich community.
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