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This week I put together my initial site on WordPRess. I'm still playing with the themes and trying to figure out which one I like the best. In order to take my site to the next level, I'm signing up for lynda.com. Watching the tutorials on this site will give me a clean, professional look on my final site. I have created a twitter account to use in conjunction with this site and will be embedding pictures, audio and video into the site. I met with my advisor, Monica, earlier this week and this put the project into perspective for me. I will be looking in the school library over the next week for an academic source mostly relating to blogging in general and how it has changed. I will also be emailing both the Washington Capitals and the Hershey Bears shortly.

Proposal

For my senior capstone I will be using WordPress to follow both the Washington Capitals and their minor league affiliate, the Hershey Bears. Having never used WordPress I will need to familiarize myself with the site and teach myself how to use it. Using WordPress I will have more than just a blog, I will have photos, videos and live links. I will need to contact both the Capitals and the Bears to make sure that I have permission to use videos and/or photos from their sites. I will also try and arrange interviews with players, which will be much easier with Hershey than with Washington. I should have no trouble coming up with a minimum of 20 blog posts as I will report on games played, key injuries and transactions and other team/organization news.