Skydiving the Virtual Skies: Skydiving Community Site, Skydiving-School.com, Opens its Doors to the Public

(PRWEB) March 27, 2006 -- “Some things in life start out as one thing and end up as something entirely different. Such was the case with Skydiving-School.com”, said Brooks Patton, Marketing Director for the site. Initially, the site was slated to be a directory resource site for web surfing skydivers to use in finding school locations and to share their experiences. “We'd hoped to launch around the time of World Team 2006's record-setting jump on February 8th, but the feedback we received, during our testing phase, revealed a couple things. First, that the online skydiving community is a savvy bunch of users, wanting tightly integrated, sophisticated features that focus on user friendliness and communication. They also, as a group, think in terms of pushing the boundaries of what is and what might be and, subsequently, they want the ability to evolve the site as their needs change.”

“Skydiving, while a powerful individual experience, is at its roots, an extremely social pursuit. Skydivers need and want more than just a directory, they want the ability to interact and grow with one another in what is, arguably, the coolest sport on earth.

In response, we supplied liberal amounts of D&D (Dew and Dominoes) to the developers and locked them in their offices again. When they came out they'd created a unique, community-driven facility, where members have a multitude of highly useful, integrated components and take an active part in determining what functionality gets priority, in subsequent releases, the first of which is already in development.”

Skydiving-School.com provides far more than just functionality for the skydiver, Patton pointed out. It also offers many ways for drop zones and other skydiving business entities to get involved. The membership is, and will always be, totally free. This includes businesses that create member profiles. The site features are designed such that skydivers and drop zones, alike, can freely benefit. Any drop zone/school can get their own full-page listing, complete with up-to-the minute weather, web links, and email contact forms. They can also freely post in the classified ad system, forums, or on Skydiving-School.com’s Jobline, where employers can post complete job listings and applicants can apply via an immediate online resume facility. It even has an events calendar system available for drop zones to post their event details and increase participation.

The free services currently available to skydivers and skydiving service providers are:

* Complete, nationwide drop zone and skydiving school directory. Easily searchable, this highly detailed drop zone directory lists all DZ specifics, up-to-the minute skydiving weather from the DZ, and multiple contact methods.

* Skydiving Community Forum, where skydivers of all disciplines and skill levels can interact and learn from one another.

* Skydiving Jobline where members can post and apply for posted positions through an online resume submission system.

* Skydiving Classified Ads for buying and selling new/used skydiving gear.

* Skydiving Events Calendar that allows members to post and search for events on an easy-to-use online calendar.

* Member Blogs where every member, once registered, has a Blog created by default. Members have the ability to post a blog as soon as they log in, a Blog that joins the Blogs of other skydiving members. Skydiving-School.com is the only service on the web offering member blogs specifically for skydivers.

* User Image Galleries for every skydiver who has those pictures that are worth a thousand words, and this is their stage to the world. Once registered, users can submit an unlimited amount of pictures to the user image galleries. Pictures can then be rated, commented on, even used to create online-cards for friends.

* Articles From The Pros where professional skydivers become part of the core contributor base. These folks have the ability to write core system articles on the site that allow a professional to provide instruction-level information, to a vast amount of people, instantaneously.

* Skydiving World News where, if news about skydiving breaks anywhere on the planet, the story is on the site within minutes of it hitting the press.

Skydiving-School.com can be found on the web at http://www.skydiving-school.com

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