Tag "social media"

FIFA launches YouTube Channel

FIFA today debuts on the video-sharing platform YouTube (www.youtube.com/fifatv) to make the world football federation’s rich audiovisual content more accessible to fans.

Liverpool first Premier League club on Pinterest

Liverpool have followed the likes of AS Roma onto Pinterest and become the first Premier League club to do so. We took a look at the site and explore more about their offering

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.

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

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…