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Brainstorming session
Team AM here (that's Ashley, Amanda, Amber and Meagan). How do we do something different as a sports presence? That has been one of our concerns as the team in charge of functionatlity and details of the website. There are already so many different sports pages out there, how can we make ours different? Our first brainstorming session brought together a lot of ideas that we can develop in the next few weeks. First off, we decided that the page should be a separate entity from tv.ku.edu. Something along the lines of sports.tv.ku.edu, called SportsTV. Here are the results of our brainstorming session:
Looking at what already exists
Kuathletics.com: What we liked about this page was the color scheme, the "logo", the mini-flash piece and the schedules that are easy to find. We decided that by next semester we might not have enough content to carry a flash piece on our separate page, so we dropped that idea. The schedules are a common element we found on almost all the pages. We liked the use of KU colors, but if we are going to be an all Lawrence sports program, than should we still use red and blue? What colors say Lawrence, KS?
Kusports.com: Our favorite part of this site is the big picture to indicate the feature story. This is one aspect we want to carry over to our page. The categories for each sport are easy to find, and for our page we will probably pare down on the amount of categories since we won't have as much content. Sticking with categories like high school, intramural, club, Haskell and KU might be a starting point. But we need to discuss this with the content team.
Other random thoughts we had was the importance of keeping past stories easily accessible, so that when someone chooses Haskell sports they see all the stories we have reported on Haskell. Another thought we had was creating a Local Sports Blog. This blog would include a couple paragraphs from a local athlete or coach at the beginning of the season or before a big game. We would just have to call the person, have them email us a blurb and then post it for them. This way we get the locals involved and drive traffic to the site.
These are just some initial thoughts we had on how to approach the functionality issue of sports online at tv.ku.edu, and we are excited about how we can bring something different to sports coverage in Lawrence.
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