Tag "Cricket"
Fun Digital Content: How ‘Owling’ is helping bring light relief to England Cricket
Following on from my ‘Planking’ post yesterday, yes it was a bit random but showed how athletes can engage with fans away from their chosen sport and be perceived as being closer to them, I thought I’d continue my look at the lighter side of athletes and how digital is getting involved.
What links B&Q, Google and Matt Prior?
I saw this today and thought it was a really neat, reactive piece of thinking by the guys at Dare. This came on the back of Matt Prior, the England wicketkeeper come batsman, getting rather agitated after being run out in the 2nd Test at lords yesterday.
Glamorgan Cricket – PR & Social Media #Fail
The Welsh club have created a PR storm with captain, director of cricket and chairman resigning but what have they done on their social networks to deal with it? and what presence do they actually have?
ECB appoint Social Media agency
The ECB have taken another step in formalising their social media approach by appointing the agency, Modern-English. Will it see massive changes in their strategy?
Is Sport broken and in need of a fix?
The alleged match fixing charges against Pakistan cricketers which have been dominating the sporting headlines recently raise two interesting questions. Firstly, will there always be match fixing in sport? Secondly, is sport really any different to any other business?
Kevin Pietersen on Twitter
Kevin Pietersen has become the latest cricketer to be caught out on Twitter and could find himself in hot water with the ECB because of it.
Strategic Partnerships: Google’s YouTube and IPL shake up sports media
Earlier this week the New York Times had an interesting article on sports broadcasting as viewed through the recent YouTube – IPL Season 3 experiment. While the financial winners and losers of the arrangement are not known, we do know that it was a win for many fans, including myself, who viewed matches and highlights.
Does Cricket Get Social Media?
Following on from Ash Read’s article on the Facebook and Twitter Premier League, Daniel McLaren decided to take a look at one of our other major sports…cricket.
