http://danliveshere.com Sports, Punk, Hip-Hop by Dan Harbison Tue, 04 May 2010 23:17:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://danliveshere.com/2007/02/13/i-am-a-trail-blazers-fan-launched/ http://danliveshere.com/2007/02/13/i-am-a-trail-blazers-fan-launched/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:34:00 +0000 Dan http://danliveshere.com/?p=5 IAmATrailBlazersFan.com. This is the first social networking site for a single sports team.

The NHL launched NHL Connect in late October. It is one social network for the full league. One reason I don’t like it is it each team’s brand is watered down to be more generic. I applaud them though for the feature set they rolled out with and being the first.

Our social network was developed by the guys at Affinity Circles in Mountain View, California. They had done social networks for university alumni associations (I found out about them when they did the “Duck Pond” for University of Oregon). We will continue to partner with them to help build this network into something really special for the fans. By no means is the site a finished product. When people become complacent on the web, their site will fail. You must always be evolving your site to make it more usable and more relevant.

Feel free to give IAmATrailBlazersFan.com a spin, even if you’re not a Trail Blazers Fan. You will see the passion of the fans there, a pretty solid design (thanks to opus:creative and a unique website for the Portland Trail Blazers.]]> http://danliveshere.com/2007/02/13/i-am-a-trail-blazers-fan-launched/feed/ 0