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Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt!

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Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt! by cinta5 on September 28, 2009 I cannot help but remember Bob Dylan’s song “The Times They Are A-Changin’&# when I think of how some sports teams are handling social media.

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Realtime Olympics: 60% of London 2012 Visits Came Via Mobile; Facebook Was 2nd Highest Traffic Source

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million social media followers across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare. According to Facebook, there over over 100 million “likes” across all athlete and team pages on Facebook. Most (38) were sports accounts, with two mascot accounts and six Twitter cameras “with personality.”

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Twitter and the Curious Case of Samantha Steele's Hair

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Fox College Sports sideline reporter Samantha Steele rolled into Lawrence, Kansas last Thursday for the University of Kansas Jayhawks football game* taking place on the following Saturday night. If only, for my sanity, the Kansas Jayhawks football team can find an offense by 11:00 am on Saturday. Yes, you read that correctly.

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VaynerMedia Proves the Power of Geolocation Marketing

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As explained on VaynerMedia’s blog, “Through the campaign [they] distributed 250 pairs of tickets as Gowalla virtual items in targeted locations (sports bars, outdoor parks, gyms) for the New Jersey Nets v. No surprise that the Nets got creative with their marketing seeing as how they’re the worst team in the league.

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Google Wave Invites Coming

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Blog blog comments powered by Disqus Previous post: Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt! Hopefully a few hours of hands on time will help me describe this new player in the social media ring. Stay Tuned About the author Jesse Sevier wrote 18 articles on this blog.

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

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James Royer , Director of Digital and Social for the Tampa Bay Lightning , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss social space in American sports, building rabid brand loyalty, and how to completely rebuild a “broken brand” successfully. When Jeff Vinik bought the team in 2010 , he needed to make some major changes.

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Gmail launches tasks. Necessary?

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Sounds great, but Rob over at Regular Geek makes a few valid points on this new app and wonders why they didn’t just team up with a task management system like Remember the Milk. by cinta5 on December 9, 2008 Announced yesterday, you can now keep track of what you need to do within Gmail.