7.02.2012

2012 Tailgating Tigers Blogging

Welcome to the 2012 Season of Tailgating Tigers Football Blogging. This is our fifth year for offering what we hope is a convenient means parents 5to communicate with other parents and for coaches to communicate with parents. Based on feedback the past few seasons, many have found it to be a valuable source for learning about the DePauw Football experience, sharing information, uploading pictures, etc. Our goal is simple – to enhance and build on the already great spirit we call the DePauw Football Nation.

A blog is different from a normal website in that it is intended to not only convey information and contain valuable links similar to a web page, but should be thought of as a chronologically ordered listing of information that all can share to announce events, action plans and keep everyone up to date with the daily and weekly happenings surrounding the DePauw football program.

For our new freshman parents, we know how hard it is to obtain information from our son’s. They can talk like great spokesmen until we ask them a question. Then - they know nothing. Other times, they just don’t know what we think they should know. We hope that you will use this Blog to fill in the missing/absent information that you want and need to know about being a DePauw football parent.

As a Tailgating Tigers blog user everyone can inform/provide information for tailgating; i.e. what you are bringing; and where to meet; when you will arrive; chat about the game; as well as provide info about other worthy events associated with DePauw and the football program; and post pictures to share.

We only have one rule – stay positive. This is not a place to discuss playing time, frustrations with coaches or other parents/players. We want to build on the best parts of the DePauw football experience. We want to build spirit, not tear it down.

The Blog is a living document that will constantly change as we learn all the team members’ names, the team’s travel plans and can update player/parent pictures. New postings will occur weekly as the season progresses.

We hope you have fun with this and enjoy the ride!!!!

The navigation is fairly simple:
Topic-specific buttons are clearly labeled on the right side of the Home Page and have many of the links you may want including DePauw's website, conference schools, etc. You reply to any Post entry by clicking the Comment and typing in your response. To make page loading easier, pictures will be uploaded to PhotoBucket, but is done through the blog. Uploading and Reviewing pictures are all linked directly by logging into this blog-site with one universal password that is always displayed: tigers. There is a chat box available that works similar to instant messaging services.

These are some basics to get going. We hope that this tool will be a centralized source for all of our DePauw football family to stay in touch and share with one another.

GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!

1 comment:

pkeller said...

You guys should team up with Anne Layden who created a Facebook page seemingly for the same purpose. Here is the link to that... http://www.facebook.com/groups/437573062926769/?bookmark_t=group