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D & E can both be used to really pitch your idea. Think through these questions more carefully. Think of this in the same way that you might apply for a job. This is your opportunity to sell yourself. Would you buy into you based on your responses?

Take a look at some of the example Drumbeat proposals in the Drumbeat blog. Punching up the content in section #2 will help. I think your ultimate goal is to advance yourself in respect to eventually becoming a sports agent. There are a lot of ways to accomplish that goal using social media and web-based media. Think through all of the technologies that we've experienced. What do you need to do to achieve your goal? What technologies can be used to advance that goal? For example, this occupation will eventually require a law degree with a focus on contract law. Can you begin learning the basics now? How can social media help you collect, organize, and retrieve what you have learned or hope to learn. I am not suggesting that you change the project entirely, but based on your goal you ought to think carefully about what will be the best use of the technologies we've discussed for your purposes. Is the blog it?

Excellent graphic. Take a look at your process. What can you replace blog with or add to blog to help you achieve your goal.

Tell us why you chose your approach rather than why you chose the project.

This is an excellent start. If you really think through your project then I think you might even be able to create a bullet list things that students can develop in this environment. BTW, if you guys like this form of feedback (Diigo groups), then you might even integrate this technology into your proposal.

The content is here, but work on the delivery of that content just a bit. How would you react as a student if you were presented with what you have written? In essence, I'm suggesting that you look at the tone more than the content of your statements. A tonal change may also dictate changes to your descriptions below.

Punch this up a bit. If you better identify your goal then these sentences will come more naturally. You should also build in a social media campaign to promote and distribute the information you collect. Also think about the organization of these sentences. #5 may your most important sentence yet it's buried at the end. Sometimes chronology works to a disadvantage and thoughts should instead be organized around importance.

If organization of information is one of your selling points, then you need to begin working on developing your system.

It would also be handy if you could create a way for these folks to communicate with one another. Think about what's out there what technologies you could use.

How will users contribute ideas? 

How will it survive? 

See Shirky for some ideas here. What does he say needs to be present for people to join in reaching a goal?

Hey Frank, You might even want to consider making a wiki and sending people the link and branching out that way. It can help make it more organized as well.. ie. categorizing suppliments, training, goals and schedules, etc..

NOTE TO THE CLASS: Across the board, the "5 Sentence" sections need to be punched up. Try not only to describe your project in five sentences, but also try to sell that project in the process.

These are good ideas. Bring this information to the first section of your proposal.

Possibly rework this step in a way that focuses on defining your concept. 

It could also be promoted to future students. Think about your audiences more fully and define them all. Pluralizing the audience is generally preferable to singularizing the audience. Who else might be interested beyond students? Is this a project that might be used to define AU and its student body? If so, then how?  Think big!

Do you want to collect it, or do you want to create a way that the students collect it themselves as it is entered? See if there is a way to streamline this process. It might be as simple as SurveyMonkey. Find examples of similar processes and repeat what succeeded in those projects.

End with more punch! Really sell your idea with this final sentence. Tell us why it matters in the headline. The description does a better job of doing this than the headline.

I agree with this sentiment, but on the same token letting loose of the reins might also create a self-moderated community. For example, I could see using a technology like IdeaScale. The ideas can be submitted then voted up or down. If the larger project begins with FYE classes, then the initial list can be more controlled because the info that is collected is done so in a class setting where decorum tends to be a different. In the end, think through the ways this plan could be designed and launched.

If you sketch out your idea, then some of the missing components might become more apparent.