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Global Blogging site for Local Sporting Clubs

Submitted by: Leddo
Created: Aug 16, 2007, 11:42 pm

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Many local sporting clubs, and individual teams for that matter, go about creating their own blog for the season. "Clubster" (or some other name...) is a global site allowing local sporting clubs around the world to create their own blogs and community site.

The site would allow for a www.clubster.com/<clubname> domain and would allow club officials to maintain their own site. Within each site, you could have many teams, and in each team you could have private & public areas for things like, blog posts from the coach/manager, pics & videos uploaded by parents at the game, comments, team contact details, fixtures etc. Obviously things like contact details, and photos would only be available to registered members of the team, via a secured access.

Funding would be via a combination of local based advertising (revenue sharing with the clubs?), as well as clubs could pay a fee to get premium services

I thought of this idea when I was...

I've been asked many a time to create a blog for a local team so I always seem to be setting them up.

Comments Posted

fossiloflife Posted: August 22, 2007, 3:12 am

y cant they have a domin? or a blog in any other site? what so u have to offer them?

Leddo Posted: August 22, 2007, 8:59 pm

Well they can, but most of these clubs don't have any technical know-how to go about creating a blog, plus even if they did, do they have to create one for each team in their club?

The service i'm proposing actually is a framework for these clubs, where they can pay a simple fee to get started, and then run through a wizard where it will build a site for their club, and build individual subsites for each team in their club. Plus they'll get the added benefit if we add a new feature, then their club can take advantage of that without calling in the techo's again.

bcforrester Posted: August 23, 2007, 8:47 am

There are many free sites out there that could be used for this purpose - facebook (create a club network) or use a wiki such as http://pbwiki.com/ that can be set up for a club.

HerbCSO Posted: August 23, 2007, 9:21 pm

Yeah, I don't really see a need for a specialized iste just for blogging. Now, start offering other services like keeping your books, rankings, results, etc., then maybe you've got something here...

thunderbear Posted: August 24, 2007, 11:05 am

done i guess and i prefer blogging for kids..and i will do it with my own site JUbril's who's who :-)

PhilipH Posted: August 25, 2007, 12:08 pm

Like many ideas, there's nothing wrong with this one if it's something people want. If people are already willing to pay you to set up their blogs etc, there's a good chance they'll pay for a service like this - if it's good and well-marketed. Use the work you've done already to find out what teams and clubs actually want from their blogs/sites and you could be on to a winner.

GordonMcDowell Posted: August 27, 2007, 1:16 pm

The success of an idea like this would be directly proportional to how much effort you'd be willing to put into building and maintaining (and marketing) such a site. Existing social networks already offer much of this functionality, so its not like your site would be able to capture members simply by being there.

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