My Final Year Project - Part 4: Project Implementation

As a continuation of my earlier posts, in this part, I would like to explain how the project was implemented and what are the test results. Our project drives on the basic ideas of:

• ·  Voluntary blood donation is the safest way of donating blood.
• · Blood collection is the most challenging part among the duties of a blood bank.
• · With the immense human resources available in our country, the gap between demand and supply of blood can be bridged easily.
• ·  The main reason why blood collection is low is because of the inability of the blood banks to maintain contact with one-time users due to a variety of reasons.
• · Websites are an easy and cost efficient way for a blood bank to keep in touch with the young, literate, potential donors.
• ·  Because a major percentage of the voluntary blood donors belong to the 18-40 age category, using social networking plug-ins enhances the reach of our website.
• ·  By collaborating with blood banks, their bulletins and details of their upcoming camps can be posted in the websites, enabling interested users to go and donate at any time that they are free.

Hence, our idea is to create a social networking site and add Facebook connect features to it and promote it among youngsters to join. The main aim of our project is to prove that social networking can be used for a good cause. We launched our site on the 18th of March. By the 25th of March, there were a 104 users. More than a 100 users had joined in the span of a week. With proper advertisements and Facebook shares and invites, our site could grow at a tremendous pace.