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Arsenal advises young players on use of social media

Insight about what happens at Arsenal when it comes to social media tutoring for young players from communication director Mark Gonnella

#ArsenalLive

@Arsenal twitter account has been used today as take part in a live ‘Twitter Takeover’. They have been encouraging fans to tweet their questions to the players using the hashtag and then the players answer the best ones.

#askpatrick livestreamed on Twitter

Man City pulled off another coup by being the first club to try out the new Twitter brand page function of being able to run a livestream through their page, and pinning that tweet as well.

Liverpool’s zen Tumblr blog

With the odd exception, less is more when it comes to social media initiatives. The simpler you can make them more likely people are to engage, it’s why I’ve never been a fan of Facebook apps – permissions tend to get in the way of engagement.

Social Media & Sport – the importance of interacting with, not just talking at fans

Following on the from the success of his last article here on UKSN, Iain Taker takes a look at how sports bodies and clubs interact with the public through digital media

Macheda latest player fined for Twitter outburst – what is the solution?

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you will know that this is certainly not the first time a player has got into trouble on Twitter. For the last 3 years there have been regular instances of this happening. So what is the answer?

New Facebook Page Timelines – whose made the switch?

Yesterday saw the announcement that Facebook was to roll out the new timelines for pages. There have been a few brands that have been first to leap on this and showcase some cool image headers. Heres a few of them…

Golf and Social Media in 2012

Whilst other sports have been slowly integrating social media into their game, golf has been slow to catch on. Here we look at what, why and where it is going

Man City’s Vincent Kompany to host post-match interview with fans on Twitter and Facebook

The club’s supporters are being offered the chance to grill the Belgian international by tweeting their questions to @vincentkompany and using the hashtag #askvincent.

Super League steps up Social Media presence with Twitter hashtags

At the beginning of February the RFL announced teams will be using specific Twitter hashtags for the upcoming season. It sounded interesting so we found out more…