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College softball recruiting meets Facebook and Twitter
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 8, 2010 at 6:53pm

If you're looking to play college at the next level and are not taking advantage of Facebook and Twitter, you may be missing out on a huge opportunity to connect with college coaches. As you may know, coaches are limited when it comes to contacting pr...more

What is the actual return on investment on social media for sports teams? And how do we calculate it?
by Swish Appeal
posted April 26, 2010 at 6:31pm

What is the actual return on investment on social media for sports teams? And how do we calculate it? Freelantz wrote last week about how Indiana Fever rookie Jene Morris is using social media to help "build a brand" for herself. However, as people exto...more

$5,000 GoodSearch Giveaway – Three Days Only!
by Girls Riders Organization, Inc.
posted April 6, 2010 at 4:58pm

GoodSearch will donate a $1 for every toolbar that is downloaded between April 6th at 9am Eastern and April 9th at 9am Eastern up to $5,000!! Please download the toolbar right now by following this link – CLICK HERE FOR LINK or use the web address http...more

NCAA Men’s Final Four go 3D at Movie Theaters
by Pretty Tough
posted April 4, 2010 at 8:55am

If watching the Final Four on your CBS station isn’t enough to quench your college hoops craving this weekend, you may want to check movie theaters where you could catch them in 3D. CBS will be featuring the three remaining NCAA men’s basketball gam...more

Going to FitBloggin'
by Run Girl Run
posted March 17, 2010 at 10:12am

Yesterday I did a little happy dance in my office chair when I realized the FitBloggin' conference had released a few more tickets. I managed to snap one up and now I'm going to the conference in Baltimore this weekend. I couldn't be more excited! Aft...more

Jennifer Rodriguez: the Web's "most dangerous" Olympic athlete
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 25, 2010 at 9:00pm

Olympic speed skater Jennifer Rodriguez finds herself atop a strange list. A reminder, just in case she (or we) needed one, that the Internet is like a shadowy lodestone attracting seemingly in greater measure the unreasonable and the unscrupulous. But d...more

ASP Launches iPhone App for World’s Best Surfing LIVE Wherever You Go
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted February 24, 2010 at 9:50pm

Pictured: Get the ASP iPhone application today and check out the world’s best surfers in the upcoming Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast pres. by Land Rover Credit: © ASP / SCHOLTZ ASP International iPhone application, ASPtogo, is now available for download...more

Beaches of Sydney viewable in hand with new iPhone app
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted February 16, 2010 at 6:05pm

SURFit is a new iPhone app from SURFit.com featuring the famous beaches of Sydney Australia in a world-first, fun, interactive experience where you can control LIVE HD surfcams, optimized for 3G on your iPhone.

 What makes this app so hot? Via a...more

From Russia with Love
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted February 6, 2010 at 2:40pm

I’m in Russia, but I have yet to start feeling the love. For starters, this internet I’m on? It cost me $60 bucks. No, that’s not a typo. For 24 hours of connectivity to the world, I pay the price of what it probably costs to provide wifi to the...more

New ski technology great for women
by Women Skiing and Sports
posted February 3, 2010 at 8:04pm

At the on-snow demo of Snow Industries America (SIA), a continuation of the Snow Show in Denver, I demoed a few skis with the new "rocker" technology. Basically, the rocker is a reserve camber, where instead of bowing in the middle, the ski's middle is fl...more

My Social Media and Advertising Rant
by Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog
posted January 23, 2010 at 6:44pm

(An unstructured rant. Blame Q McCall and Megan Hueter for sparking it with their fine articles.)Imagine that you are the new head of sales for Coca-Cola. You want to maintain your dominance over Pepsi in the soft-drink market.Furthermore, imagine that ...more

NCAA and social media: Friends?
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted January 23, 2010 at 12:16pm

NCAA is jumping on the social media bandwagon. Photo credit: biojobblog.com I’d like to extend a huge “welcome!” to NCAA collegiate athletic departments – it seems that this year, you may have finally realized the power of technology in bringin...more

Wikipedia and WNBA Player Popularity
by Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog
posted January 14, 2010 at 11:48am

For those of you who don't know much about the internet, Wikipedia is a user-defined encyclopedia with several million entries. Users can edit encyclopedia entries and accept that their own work will be edited. Just about every WNBA player has an articl...more

Womens professional soccer engages over 200,000 Twitter followers
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted January 11, 2010 at 12:41pm

Photo credit: Womensprosoccer.com / Twitter.com While most of us in digital marketing know that corporate use of social media is not, by any means, a popularity contest and the number of “followers” you have is by no means a measure of success, the...more

Google’s top tennis players searches of the year
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted December 4, 2009 at 12:21pm

Google’s top tennis players searches of the year This is the top 10 list of Google’s top tennis players searches of 2009… 1. Roger Federer 2. Serena Williams 3. Rafael Nadal 4. Maria Sharapova 5. Anna Kournikova 6. Venus Williams 7. Andre Agassi...more

Redefining Personas
by Soccer Science
posted November 22, 2009 at 7:14pm

In the past week, I’ve spoken with two national organizations about to their social media strategies. The beauty of helping others is certainly two-fold. First of course, it’s awesome to see companies and people that you care about succeed, but al...more

What can Twitter’s geotagging do for sports?
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted November 21, 2009 at 4:17pm

Shaq Tweets at fan using Twitter's new Geotagging. Photo credit: http://myloc.me/show.php?id=1kwf0 This week, Twitter launched their Geolocation API, giving users the option to have their messages contain their exact locations. Now, I have to admit, I...more

No two sports leagues will ever have the same social media marketing strategy
by Soccer Science
posted November 16, 2009 at 12:28pm

On Thursday, November 5, I was a panelist at Football Partnership’s Tweet – Blowing the Whistle on Social Media, a discussion about soccer and social media. The panelists also included Greg Lalas (Goal.com), Chris Schlosser (MLSnet.com) and Chris ...more

What happened at “Tweet – Blowing the Whistle on Social Media”?
by Soccer Science
posted November 6, 2009 at 8:21pm

Last night I attended Alex Kotler’s Football Partnerships panel, “Tweet: Blowing the Whistle on Social Media.” Greg Lalas, Chris Schlosser, Chris Toy and myself were the panelists, and there were some seriously smart people in the room, all with ...more

The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted November 3, 2009 at 5:16pm

I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport. This week, I’m compelled to bring us back to a time before the Internet and social media, a time when we relied upon the telephone....more

Is Twitter a woman thing?
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 2, 2009 at 12:02pm

There's been a lot of posting recently among the Women Talk Sports crowd about the power of social networking for women's sports. My contribution is an observation I made early on in my Twitter tenure that has continued to cross my mind from time to tim...more

Burden, buzz or both?: Reflections on social media & women’s sports
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted October 28, 2009 at 11:58am

Heather D. Maxwell, PhD Consumer Insight Networks, General Mills Inc. Former Tucker Center Research Assistant @DigitalMaxwell The recent Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture concerning social media is timely. The lecture panelists started the conve...more

Mt. High launches snazzy new iPhone app
by Westbound Boarder
posted October 27, 2009 at 7:51pm

Last week, Mt. High ski resort (and my local mountain) announced that it will be launching an iPhone application with a release date of November 15. Before you read any further, I’d like to preface this post with a “disclaimer” - I don’t own ...more

What is the significance of Twitter for the WNBA?
by Swish Appeal
posted October 10, 2009 at 11:58am

Among the many reasons that last night's fifth and deciding game of the 2009 WNBA Finals was a momentous occasion for women’s basketball, perhaps the most intriguing is that #WNBA was a trending topic on Twitter in the hours following the game.Not too l...more

My Top 10 Favorite Athlete Websites
by Lisa's Water Pit
posted October 4, 2009 at 6:10pm

Lisa Galaviz – October 4th, 2009 Yesterday at Geekfest 2009 (As @KCbandit liked to call it), Ann Gaffigan (former American Record holder in the steeplechase and current Computer Website Mogul) and I were discussing website design. I asked her what h...more

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