Madden-School Blogging Squad

JasonHop2003@yahoo.com

Display name: TRaN-QuiL-itY

TRaN-QuiL-itY wrote:

Rob wrote:

As many of you already know, we are in the process of getting our Madden-School blog up and running. As Editor-In-Chief of our blog, I am now in the process of finding writers who are interested in helping out with this project. At the moment, our writing team consists of myself, Tranquility (Jason), Tvon and Wink, but I'm thinking five to seven writers would be more than enough. Among the topics we'd like to cover are: Madden-School news (profiles, tourneys, hot topics), NFL news (maybe assign each blogger to one division), and anything else that anyone can think of that relates to the Madden scene.

As I am taking this project very seriously and would like our blog to be as professional as possible, I would like all stories to be pm'ed or sent to me before they are posted so the content can be edited. I will not change anyone's writing style, but I would definitely like to make sure that it's up to par concerning grammar and AP Style.

So, for those of you interested in becoming bloggers, please pm me and let me know. Let me know what kind of writing experience you have and what type of things you are interested in writing.

Also, if anyone has any ideas for the blog, feel free to either post them here or pm me.

Lastly, iKILL was gracious enough to make the blogspot for us and will be working with us to get the site up and running. If you see him around, make sure and thank him for all the help he's been giving us.

Sweeeeeet, you know what AP Style is!

Do you have an AP Style book, too? If not I can provide anyone who wants one. Maybe ever e-book style.

Hell ya I have an AP Stylebook lol...You can't be a college journalism student without one lol

Instead of having a seperate website for the articles why not just post them on the front page where you have the ratings updates at. I think the articles will definitely drive people coming back to the site but having it on a another page seems counter productive.

jwhite wrote:

Instead of having a seperate website for the articles why not just post them on the front page where you have the ratings updates at. I think the articles will definitely drive people coming back to the site but having it on a another page seems counter productive.

I 100% agree with this

Yeah that's what I did with my websites.

If that's the case, I think we should try and utilize both web sites to our advantage. On the front page, we can put up our new stories, but the problem I could see with this is that we'd become very text heavy and cluttered with stories with the number of people that want to write. What I propose is that we put a new story on the home page AND on the blog site, but mainly use the blog site for archives so readers can go to it and read stories that are no longer on the home page.

Rob wrote:

If that's the case, I think we should try and utilize both web sites to our advantage. On the front page, we can put up our new stories, but the problem I could see with this is that we'd become very text heavy and cluttered with stories with the number of people that want to write. What I propose is that we put a new story on the home page AND on the blog site, but mainly use the blog site for archives so readers can go to it and read stories that are no longer on the home page.

Yeah, that woudn't be that bad of an idea. Use it for archives and random blogs.

I need to be added at the other site

TRaN-QuiL-itY wrote:

Rob wrote:

If that's the case, I think we should try and utilize both web sites to our advantage. On the front page, we can put up our new stories, but the problem I could see with this is that we'd become very text heavy and cluttered with stories with the number of people that want to write. What I propose is that we put a new story on the home page AND on the blog site, but mainly use the blog site for archives so readers can go to it and read stories that are no longer on the home page.

Yeah, that woudn't be that bad of an idea. Use it for archives and random blogs.

I need to be added at the other site

agreed, that sounds like the best idea

when are we gona get this started? Im pretty pumped up for this i think this could be something that helps the site expand and keep new people active but we gota know what we are covering and what format we are gona be using so we can get this started.

you guys were talking about having different people for different divisions with updates on nfl news i would do the nfc east write an article a week or every 2 weeks or something if you dont have people yet

So when are you guys going to start posting articles?

jwhite wrote:

So when are you guys going to start posting articles?

I already posted one over on the madden-school blog site and I'm waiting for people to contribute articles...Fudgy said he would talk to Mod about putting the story on the front page, but that clearly didn't happen...So for now, I guess we just try and use the shitty blog site...