The Chicago Bulls have launched Pluck products for their new online community BullsConnect. The Bulls and Pluck collaborated to create this fan community.  BullsConnect enables Bulls fans to connect with other fans and discuss all aspects of their favorite team with other community members.

Pluck features include:

• An outstanding community landing page with flash components above out of the box discovery elements featuring new members, blogs/news, and media sharing.
• Personas:  Users can view their personal site profile which captures their recent activity, public messages to/from other users, comment history, persona blog, any uploaded videos and photos, see their bulls connect friends, and all the BullsConnect groups they are a part of.
• Members:  Using a Pluck discovery module users can see the most recently updated member profiles.
• Groups:  Users can join or create groups centered around the team including the Luv a Bull's group (a group focused around the Bulls dance team) and Benny the Bull (the team mascot)
• Forums:  Discussions around all areas of the Bulls players, season, and meeting places can be found in the forums section.
• Blogs:  Featured Blogs and fan blogs can be found in the Blogs/News area to give fans the most up to date info on everything happening with the Bulls team.
• Media:  Fans can upload photos and videos from games and Bulls events as well as join in contests such as the Harris Bank Ultimate Fan of the month video contest.
• Social Bridging:  Fans can connect to their Facebook and Twitter accounts to display their content through those mediums and drive additional traffic to the site.

-          More to come:  The Bulls are planning to integrate Pluck4 comments within BullsConnect and their team site (www.chicagobulls.com) in the near future.  The persona elements on the team site will push traffic back to their community.

The Bulls were able to take their site from an idea to a reality all in less than a month using Pluck widgets and hosting services from enom.  (Almost all elements are out of the box widgets with CSS styling.)  We look forward to many more improvements and customizations in the iterations to come as the Bulls plan to move to Pluck4 applications in their coming releases. 

Check out the new BullsConnect community at www.bullsconnect.com today and join the official online community of the Chicago Bulls.