Today my mentor gave me a task to research something called eCal. eCal is a company that has worked with numerous professional sports teams and big time Division I Athletics. The company uses events an organization has and created an e-calendar. The purpose of the calendar is to be able to link it to someone’s smartphone or for example if you use outlook for email, it can link the team’s schedule to the calendar. This is something the University is looking to use mainly for basketball season, our biggest sport. I think it would be great for the university and how fans can be made aware of upcoming events and if there are any changes to those events.
The services uses links to put in the event that is in ones calendar. The links can be radio broadcasts, team rosters, team stats, smartphone apps, etc. One thing I though would be a good idea is having a link that has each games promotions on there. So a person would get an alert that says to come to a “Free Hotdog giveaway” at the next home game. This idea was quickly shot down. Although I was told it was a good idea, I was told we needed to focus on things we already have links for and things that are already created. It would take too much to create something new like that. I understood this and was ok with find links that were already created that I would like to see in an alert on my calendar.
The services uses links to put in the event that is in ones calendar. The links can be radio broadcasts, team rosters, team stats, smartphone apps, etc. One thing I though would be a good idea is having a link that has each games promotions on there. So a person would get an alert that says to come to a “Free Hotdog giveaway” at the next home game. This idea was quickly shot down. Although I was told it was a good idea, I was told we needed to focus on things we already have links for and things that are already created. It would take too much to create something new like that. I understood this and was ok with find links that were already created that I would like to see in an alert on my calendar.