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March 30, 2006
Collecting the History of A Big Surprise (cont'd)
The George Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank has now achieved lift off. Since the site officially went live several hours ago, visitors have begun to pour in and contributions to the memory bank have begun.
One thing we've learning in all of our projects is how essential it is that we flog the hell out of them to everyone we can think of. "If you build it, they will come" was the voice of a ghost in a cornfield, not a mantra for website development. So, instead, we have been emailing, posting on MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites, writing to sports writers, posting to sports blogs...in short, doing everything we can online to create traffic for the site. And, in addition, we've been doing it the old-fashioned way...handing out flyers in crowds in the student union building and elsewhere.
Whether this project really takes off will be a function of the success of the men's basketball team in Indy this weekend. But it will be fun to watch it grow.
Posted by mills at March 30, 2006 07:27 PM