Summary: http://trailfire.com/voodoologic/trailview/44791
If you can't read it below.
The San Francisco Fog R.F.C. is a club committed to an ethic of inclusion. The vision of the club is to be the preeminent rugby club in the world that actively pursues the participation of people of color, gay men, women, and other groups traditionally under-represented in rugby. Over one hundred members strong, Fog Rugby welcomes newcomers, as well as experienced players, coaches and supporters of all ages, races and sexual orientations.
Tribute to Mark found here.
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IGRAB
(tee hee)
We have an email group for friends to get updates. There is also a Recruits email list as well as one for players and coaches.
If we had a Google group account vs our current yahoo group it would be possible to send email notifications and do quick RSVP-like invites for practices and games.
If we were to do it all over again, I would make a big push to migrate the Fog over to Google groups. As it stands now, only gmail account users can reply to events.
Years ago, I was tasked with creating this as well as maintaining it's popularity.
I've been using Splashcast and threadboming to bring rugby content to the page.
Splashcast is showing A LOT of potential. This is my newest adoption for online marketing.
- - who said that'd be big??? Oh right, ME - - I
With the utilization of RSS video feeds can deliver wildly dynamic content to everyone.
With Myspace, it offers me the ability to embed a video comment, then change the contents of the video at a later time. It creates an increased level of exposure to all of the Fog's content, delivers the most updated information, and it makes less work for me.
Imagine, instead of putting out whole new comments for the Fog's 498 friends, I can just change the Splashcast video and having every embedded player show my latest content.
I have two accounts right now, one for the Fog and the other for VoodooLogic.
Sometimes I get to wishing that I could just have the VoodooLogic account and create a separate channel for rugby. This would bring all the credit back to me. However, it would take pull that creative power from anyone who came after me.
Maybe I should...
This is the newest website I am beginning to use.
Splashcast has changed it's interface to be less powerful and flexable.
I have a different vision for Viddler. I want to display games on this server and allow in video comments to help players learn to play the game better.
As it stands now, players don't even get to watch the film. By placing a file online, I think that players will have easier access to viewing. Combined with pop-up comments, experienced players can offer advice as the game film is being viewed.
As an online bookmarking service, del.icio.us delivers a lot of online resource management. I can easily access "thanks for the add" photos on photobucket. It is fully intergrated with Flock and it has a great Firefox plugin.
I CAN'T, however, create tags for each fog rugby player Myspace account . That action was blocked by del.icio.us
I CAN create a resource for people who want to find out more about IGRAB and about the rugby world in general.
When I log into the different online Fog accounts, I switch from my personal stumble account to this one. It's like switching brains, both brains have rugby in common.
You can RSS the feeds so that the stumble trail is documented on blogs or anywhere.
If I happen upon a great site, I vote for it on stumble and tag it in del.ico.us.
Utilizing this site, twitterfone, and an international prepaid phone I set up system to allow me to call in updates to the games that people back in America would get instantly.
This was handy after breaking my ribs in the first game. I was able to send updates after every score from the sidelines.
With a twitter account, Twilert makes it easy to find out the latest buzz on the web. I also can find people of similar interests and add them to my friends list.
The keywords I use for the Fog are, 'Rugby', 'Gay' and 'IGRAB'
In the 2009 season, The Fog has changed up the format when we moved to google groups. friendly banter takes place here. Official news from the club on a different group. The aim is to allow people who want to send/receive 20+ emails a day won't intrude on those people who just want the game information and announcements.
I put this site together after we got this giant cargo thing. utilizing plegie, the goal is to get people to pay for the paint supplies for a graffiti artist.
As it stands now, we have an artist, now all we need is the cash. While I don't have high hopes for pledges, it does get people motivated. I will probably have better luck with a jar after practice.
this site integrates with myspace by providing backgrounds, comment material, and a place to store the game footage without having access to the main server. *remember I don't run the main page.
This account has been critical since the PHP based album on the sffog.org doesn't accept direct links.
I should create a more organized array of albums, but who has the time...
I just found the video uploader recently and I'm looking to use that with Splashcast.
I created this mashup so myspace users can get our google calendar on their page where iframe tags are forbidden.
I find that this application does two things. First, It dissminates information easily and anyone can add it to their site. Secondly, it creates a consistant message and turnes social networks into information nodes for the Fog.
