Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Stony Brook University, Chris D’Orso has found out about our project and has posted a nice praise about our mission. We are glad to hear it so this is a response to the uncertainty of what SBUGuide will do.

SBUGuide’s primary goal is to fill in the missing gaps that exists in the admissions process. Our featured part of our website named “The Missing Guide To Stony Brook University” will guide students through the admissions process. We’re not saying you guys aren’t doing a good job out there Stony Brook, because you are. SBUGuide will provide the extra push that will help prospective students with college admissions.

For a prospective student, searching for the college is not all about the academics, it’s about social life as well. We will create promotional videos for Stony Brook highlighting all the positive things to do on campus. Those will be featured in the multimedia section. We plan to release weekly Podcasts with SBUGuide founders, Tony Cai, Andi Pepi, Joey Walters-Nevet and Adal D. Regis as hosts featuring guest speakers from common students to athletes from Stony Brook sports teams.

Our secondary goal will be providing resources for current students. A lot of students complain about having nothing to do on weekends, that’s simply not true, a well built community will allow people to post events and/or find out about events going on around campus, even if it’s just a small party or a movie night. SBUGuide will also provide academic resources as well as the social. Where to look for something on campus? We will have all the answers to that. Of course, this will mean a lot of research for us but SBUGuide is dedicated and we intend to do the research.

That was the staff generated content part of the website, now here is where things get interesting! User generated media such as pictures and videos will also be posted. Tony has created a process where users will upload pictures and videos, after it gets screened, it will be featured in the site. Exciting enough? Well just you wait! SBUGuide will also host Campus Wide Blogging, any Stony Brook University student with a Stony Brook email will allowed to register for our free service. Everyone can start a blog at blogs.sbuguide.com/username.

We are now in a era where Web 2.0 applications flourish, and social networking is huge! We have already setup accounts with popular social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook so students can further spread the word of SBUGude.

Student collaboration will be easy at SBUGuide. We already have the forums and wiki setup. Users can chat about anything related to Stony Brook with our forums and help our wiki system grow by adding content to the knowledge base.

That was a little sneak peak of what our website will look like, our current index page is there to through people off but this will be huge! So Chris, I hope this answers some of your questions. That’s basically our whole business plan in a blog post. Nothing in that screen shot is final especially the logo, that’s defiantly NOT final.

Today is day 3 of development, so things are just getting started.

We are three kids from Langmuir College, C2 wing . Making it BIG! One day we were in my (Tony) room chillin’ late at night last semester. We all agreed that we wanted to do something big but didn’t know what. I suggested that I wanted to start a community for Stony Brook and help prospective students. At that point I already applied to be a Stony Brook blogger but wanted to do something more. We all agreed to start this project next semester, and after a long summer, here we are.

Check back at our blog frequently to get more news about SBUGuide!