garykoelling

This is the WTF from BlueShirt Nation dot com.

Lot’s of people have been asking me what’s the goal of BlueShirt Nation. This turns out to be a hard question but one that’s really important to answer. So after thinking about it for a long time, here’s the simplest answer I can offer:

Make

It’s weird because I guess I thought the goal was the thing itself. And I suppose when I started hacking it together that was a lot of it. But back then it was just me and Steve and a few others. But now it’s getting bigger. And I think it’s cool. But I owe it to all the new members to explain WTF – What’s this for?

BlueShirt Nation is a secure and private directed network aimed at the one hundred thousand or so employees working the retail floors of best buy.

I created the site using an open source content management system (cms) called Drupal running on a linux/apache server. The cms uses php and mysql primarily with some javascript and ajax. it is currently in beta and fully functional set to pilot with some 2200 members oct. 1 2006.

Update 10/2007

The site is in perpetual beta and has been available to all Best Buy employees since February 2007 and has over 15,000 members, acquired largely via word-of-mouth, as of November 2007.