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How To: Monitor Your Sports Brands

you’ve set up your Facebook and your Twitter account but how do you find out what people are saying about you and then get into the conversation yourself?

When Sport Goes Wrong….. Do You Have A Social Media Plan?

Something that is often forgotten, or just ignored, in social media and in business generally is the need to plan for what could go wrong.

London Sports Networker event is back!

Back by popular request, The UK Sports Network’s networking event returns to London one again this August as it teams up with Lewis Howes for an exciting sports professionals networking event at the Sports Bar & Grill in Marylebone.

Do you shout from the rooftops enough?

We are nowhere near as good at self publicity when we are building up our on and off line profiles. Social Media provide us with a massive opportunity to let people know we are experts in our field and make connections around the world.

What’s stopping sports teams from embracing social media?

Over the past few months there are certain things that have become apparent when talking to sports teams and associations about social media.

Lessons from Social Media & Sport Summit (by Ed Hartigan)

Looking at the case studies at #smsslondon from the teams, Liverpool FC and Lotus F1, it was evident that some basic business rules had been applied that other organizations could certainly learn from when starting out in social media.

London ‘Social Media & Sport Summit’ – RoundUp

Last Thursday saw the Social Media & Sport Summit come to London for its second event in as many weeks. Here are the slides, a video interview with Matt Owen (Liverpool FC) and photo’s from the day.

Manchester United launch official Facebook Page

To my suprise Man Utd quietly entered the social media fold by launching a Facebook Fan Page. So when I found out I was excited to find out how they have grasped social media and intend to enagage with huge global fanbase.

‘The Social Network’ – a film about Facebook

If you like social networking and especially the story of Facebook, with its founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, then you will enjoy this film thats out later this year.

The Facebook & Twitter Premier League (July 2010)

With the Social Media & Sport Summit only a couple of days away and with all the football clubs attending, I thought now was the perfect time to revisit Ash’s article from back in January (when UKSN first came into being).