Making New Community Web Site

To : Ms. Vogelsang
FROM : Ashton(Jae Her)
DATE : 16 July 2015
Summary
To make new community web site, I request you provide financial support to me to
interview developer of other successful university community and buy server to
operate web site.
Qualifications
I have made web application that manages members of the gym. This experience
could help me to make web application well.
Introduction
We are called as Generation-C, which stands for generation of connected, contented,
community, and curation.[1] It means that we are always connected to online and
producing content continuously. Ideal community must generate appropriate information
for their users. It is clear that making community satisfy these aspects is so hard to make.
Problem
Community of our university is in critical condition because our community cant provide
any information for community users which is caused by lack of users. Because of this
problem, information gap can be generated. Students who have many personal
connections can get information from their senior or friends, but others who have less
personal connections cant get the information easily. To solve this information gap
problem, we need to make community that can generate informations for everyone. So, we
should make community easy to access and can draw users attention.
Objective
To solve this problem, we have to look back to our universitys failure and other successful
communities. How other successful communities attract their users and maintaining their
users, and we have think about what is important for making our community.
Solutions
Step 1.
We have to know about what our community needs.
1) Using social networking service such as Facebook and Twitter to survey what
was our previous communitys weak points and reinforce their weak points
2) Using Google Trends and Naver Trends for knowing what our potential users
want to know about our university.

 Their main purpose is to find lecture evaluation informations and to find rooms

to reside according to Google Trend.

Using social networking service such as Facebook and Twitter to survey what
was our previous communitys weak points and reinforce their weak points

<Picture #1> Result graph of analyze search word related to Hanyang University Erica[2]

Step 2.
Analyze other successful community such as SNULife(Seoul National University) which is
known for lecture evaluation, KOPAS(Korea University) which is known for anonymous
free boards, Seiyonnet(Yonsei University)
Step 3.
Interview developers of these communities to gather information of how database schema
is used and what Frameworks they used.
Step 4.
According to our analysis and information gathered from developers, decide what to use
for frameworks, how to design database schema, and server which is stable and easy to
use.
Step 5.
Think about how to make our users to access more easily.
Using Application Programming Interface of Facebook, Twitter, Naver and Google to
make account and login the site easily.
Classify boards with category to see clearly.
Step 6.

Advertise the community via social networking service and offline posters.

Schedule
To do

Days

Gather information of our students need

5 days

Analyze other communities

7 days

Start to make community

Finish developing and start to advertise

28 days
300 days

Conclusion
It is hard to make community alone but I have experience that make a web application.
So, it could take some time to complete making community. But, it would help students
who could not get informations from others. It can be used for target marketing because
the community is only for students who are in attendance at university. It makes the
community to be profitable. So, I want you to spend some financial support to make this
community. I request you for offer USD 3,000 for buying server and interviewing.

[1] Trendwatching, http://trendwatching.com/trends/GENERATION_C.htm, Accessed : 16

July 2015
[2] Google Trent, https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%ED%95%9C%EC
%96%91%EB%8C%80%20%EC%97%90%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%B4, Accessed : 16
July 2015