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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Sports have been played, enjoyed by spectators and covered by the media since well before the advent of smartphones and social media. But it’s no question that the development of social platforms has changed how we play, enjoy and cover sports. Twitter is the new sports ticker. Facebook is the new hub for fans.

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3 Angles to Create Magnetic Content with the Triangle of Relevance

Convince & Convert

major sporting events, current events, trending news and more. Include holidays, major TV or sporting events, movie release dates, school breaks, etc.). Copy for PPC and Facebook ads. Twitter, Facebook, or microblogging posts (Vary to re-purpose content). of your target audience. Time Significance. User Interest.

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Drive for Show, Putt for Dough – a Lesson for Enterprise 2.0 Platforms

Social Media Strategery

Ever hear the phrase “Drive for Show, Putt for Dough?&# It’s time-honored sports cliche that refers to the oohs and ahhs that a huge golf drive off the tee will elicit from the crowd. vendor out there offers a similar set of features – blogging, microblogging, wiki functionality, profiles, tagging, search, etc.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)? Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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