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I have been meaning to blog about Scholar.ly for the last week.
The best way to describe Scholar.ly is that it is a mashup between Facebook and Digg. With Scholar.ly you have both the elements of a college social network and a voting community. This voting network is wrapped around the ultraistic idea of providing scholarships to the masses. Scholar.ly was created to give every person who desires a higher education a chance—regardless of finances, ethnicity, grades, talent, age, or athletic ability.
The site is new and has not been marketed. Janet and I launched Scholar.ly on May 29th and we still have a lot of work to do. Yet, what has been done is quite amazing.
We entered Scholar.ly into a Yahoo contest. Unfortunately, we didn’t hear about the contest until the day before. So we pulled together a street team and 36 hours later the team created a fantastic website.
Literally, we had one designer, two programmers, and four content writers (myself included) using the midnight oil to meet our deadline. I really believe our little website has a chance. Yet, if Yahoo decides not to pick us I still think that Scholar.ly will become a billion dollar website!
P.S. You might be wondering what .ly stands for. Libya owns this domain extension, and if you ever decided to buy from them talk to me. There’s a heck of a learning curve involved with Libya—just ask Janet!
Not that I deserve a scholarship by any means (not a student at the time being) but I still can’t upload adorable pictures of my kids on the site! Just thought I would pass that on.
Cara- Thanks for your feedback. We are aware of the issue and it’s on the list to fix. I’ll ping you when Scholar.ly has the capability to have you upload your adorable pictures.
I have been meaning to blog about 
Not that I deserve a scholarship by any means (not a student at the time being) but I still can’t upload adorable pictures of my kids on the site! Just thought I would pass that on.
Cara- Thanks for your feedback. We are aware of the issue and it’s on the list to fix. I’ll ping you when Scholar.ly has the capability to have you upload your adorable pictures.