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New Web site aims at connecting UConn community
Huskybook consolidates many Web tools in one site
Emily Abbate
Issue date: 2/11/09 Section: Focus
It's nothing students would stumble upon by themselves.
And considering a decent majority of college students have either their school's student page or their Facebook profile as their default homepage, it's definitely a change from the normal.
But imagine a Web site with all the features you spend your time cruising the Internet for, consolidated into one place.
Huskybook.com, launched in the summer of 2008, is just this.
The Web site, launched by Conrad Egusa, 21, a finance and accounting double major at Santa Clara University, consists of a main page with calendar, photo, message board, music and marketplace sections. Egusa really wanted to do something different with Huskybook then some other options on the Web.
"I'm looking forward to see what Huskybook will become," said Sarah Hannon, a 4th-semester exploratory major. "I really like a lot of the features on there."
"Huskybook was first created because I found that students didn't have a way to connect to their school community online," Egusa said. "Their only options were through their university Web site and their school newspaper. Although Facebook exists, it is all about the individual, where I think Huskybook is all about the UConn community."
But soon enough, Egusa realized he couldn't do it alone. Enter UConn students Raffi Bloom and Stephen Grossman, both 4th-semester accounting majors.
"We found out about Huskybook through a mutual friend we have with Conrad," Bloom said. "And now we are partners with him."
"We primarily help with spreading the word about Huskybook around UConn," Grossman said. "We are constantly giving Conrad more ideas to make this Web site more beneficial to UConn students."
There are five additional tabs for "Rate My Professor," athletics, social life, prospective students and alumni, and other miscellaneous items, including scholarships.
"The Web site has potential to be an asset for student life here," said Rasheem Banks, a 6th-semester finance major. "But I personally don't use it, yet."
And considering a decent majority of college students have either their school's student page or their Facebook profile as their default homepage, it's definitely a change from the normal.
But imagine a Web site with all the features you spend your time cruising the Internet for, consolidated into one place.
Huskybook.com, launched in the summer of 2008, is just this.
The Web site, launched by Conrad Egusa, 21, a finance and accounting double major at Santa Clara University, consists of a main page with calendar, photo, message board, music and marketplace sections. Egusa really wanted to do something different with Huskybook then some other options on the Web.
"I'm looking forward to see what Huskybook will become," said Sarah Hannon, a 4th-semester exploratory major. "I really like a lot of the features on there."
"Huskybook was first created because I found that students didn't have a way to connect to their school community online," Egusa said. "Their only options were through their university Web site and their school newspaper. Although Facebook exists, it is all about the individual, where I think Huskybook is all about the UConn community."
But soon enough, Egusa realized he couldn't do it alone. Enter UConn students Raffi Bloom and Stephen Grossman, both 4th-semester accounting majors.
"We found out about Huskybook through a mutual friend we have with Conrad," Bloom said. "And now we are partners with him."
"We primarily help with spreading the word about Huskybook around UConn," Grossman said. "We are constantly giving Conrad more ideas to make this Web site more beneficial to UConn students."
There are five additional tabs for "Rate My Professor," athletics, social life, prospective students and alumni, and other miscellaneous items, including scholarships.
"The Web site has potential to be an asset for student life here," said Rasheem Banks, a 6th-semester finance major. "But I personally don't use it, yet."
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