Tag "Football"

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…

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.

UK Sports Stars Make The Move To Facebook

This last few months has seen Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Tom Daley and Kevin Pietersen (as of last week) launch their own Facebook pages. Is this a new trend?

Football, Racism and Twitter

Last week long-time Twitter fan and Manchester City defender Micah Richards quit the social media platform after becoming a target of racist abuse over the last few months. Here we take a look at the problems and how it can be dealt with

UEFA set to launch new Facebook app for Europa League

UEFA have announced wide-ranging plans to engage with fans through Facebook when the Europa League knockout stages begin in February

The Social Media Match-Day Experience – Be Useful!

The first aim for any club is to make match-days the most memorable, fun experience possible both on and off the pitch. Are clubs doing this with social media? Is there another way?

Beckham to be interviewed on YouTube & host Google+ Hangout

This evening (Thursday 19th) Google will be interviewing the football icon David Beckham on his YouTube page and then Beckham will be hosting a hangout on his Google+ page straight afterwards. More here…

To Tweet or not to Tweet, that is the question

Is Social Media an opportunity or potential threat? This is a guest post by lawyer and footrball agent Iain Taker on athletes use of Twitter and the opportunities for good and bad it presents – and advice on how to reduce those risks

New way to get team Twitter updates with Sportsday.co

This is an idea that brings all tweets into one place where you can watch all the information about your team; follow games, transfer news, team updates, etc in an easy to view and aesthetic manner. Here’s some more…

Social Media & Sports – 2012 Predictions (Part 2 – UK)

In the second part of our look ahead to the world of Social Media and Sport in 2012 we get the thoughts of Mark Segal, Steven Dent, Chris Hughes, Mike Dunphy and Tom Hines. Enjoy…