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We have Liftoff
March 27th, 2006 by Benjamin Wagaman.Categorized as Ruby on Rails, life, programming, technology.
It’s true. We launched CruCommons.com. After much hard work and long hours, this site, linking thousands of college students together, is underway. In the first 48 hours, 750 people already added their picture to the community. I’ve never seen a site grow so fast.
Perhaps the sucess of the site is linked to the way we adapted our database to make it happen. The site is prepopulated from the thousands of people who already registered for summer projects and conferences. Then, it just took a little bit of marketing to tell people about the site and get them involved. Having a prepopulated site does a ton of good in making a site grow fast. It becomes epidemic.
HI, this is a great idea. I was wondering how you get into it? I noticed getting hits from it already…did you send a password to new summer project people? Have you unveiled to staff but I just missed the email ( a real possibility). Anyhow, thanks so much for your work.
Actually, it is our staff group blog that is getting the traffic from crucommons, not mine.