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Sports and Social Media-What have We Learned?

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Recently via ESPN, a social media drama played out nationally as a Texas A&M football recruit and one of their coaches sparred via Twitter , over the perception of each other’s veiled tweets. The fall out is additionally bad because it also shows how recruiting athletes in a social media world can go terribly awry.

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Sports and Social Media-What have We Learned?

Direct Marketing Observations

Recently via ESPN, a social media drama played out nationally as a Texas A&M football recruit and one of their coaches sparred via Twitter , over the perception of each other’s veiled tweets. The fall out is additionally bad because it also shows how recruiting athletes in a social media world can go terribly awry.

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The Random on Social Media, Music, Sports, Books and Movies

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breaking up , but to be honest, I can’t remember the last time I got excited about a new release from them, Is there a second act to social media? Kat French , who has one of the coolest names, is helping us put our 120 plus socialmedia tweetchats into a book-I know… Not another social media book, can you feel it?

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The Social Media Press Box

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According to ESPN the Indians have established a 10-seat section in left field for bloggers and social media users in an effort to engage fans and further the Indians’ brand in the social media space. It’s called the Tribe Social Deck. Hmmm… I think I like the idea. This could be a problem.

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Should Companies Play it Safe in Social Media?

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One of the easiest ways to opt out of the social media revolution is to do just enough to satisfy the hacks that may be looking at your social efforts who then may be writing, speaking or commenting about your stuff and trying to poke holes at it. What are they doing with social media that you are not?

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Social Media Conundrum #12: Justin Bieber is popular, but he’s not influential?

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I can’t believe I’m going to weigh in on this, but I saw a tweet from a notable social media analytics consultant in which the following was stated for the umteenth time. 50 Cent has deals with Reebok, Vitamin Water, Right Guard, PlayStation, and Steiner Sports. Isn’t that influence?I in·flu·ence. ??

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Social Media Marketing Challenges in the Biotech Industry

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If there was ever a direct call to action for all that we do in social media, particularly social media marketing in the biotech space, then that would be it. I don’t see a lot of “how-to-do” social media marketing articles that focus on the biotechnology industry, and there’s probably a good reason for that.

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